Fan-tastic

Yesterday, TJ found us two fans for our very warm and sometimes uncomfortable home. It is creeping up into the 80's with some humidity and will be close to 90 F by weeks end so we decided to make things more tolerable for ourselves, although once we get into July they may not even help. We will see.
Even the places that do have AC (which aren't many) don't use it to its potential. The Germans are so particular with their controlled temperatures...they are always worried about getting sick. Here are a couple of examples. The gym. The gym is hot and it is humid and without fans. Germans typically do not like fans or drafts of any kind so fans are also hard to find here. So this is what happens...they keep the gym around 24 degrees celcius (about 75 F). But then people complain so they open doors letting the humidity in, of course making it worse...but they think fresh air cures all things as well. Yesterday wasn't even that hot and while working out (soaking wet) my IPod screen fogged up. That is how miserable it was! TJ is equally annoyed because the office has to be set only 7 degrees cooler than outside as worked out in the union agreement with German contract workers. So yesterday he said it was so humid and hot and uncomfortable, and there is nothing that can be done about it. And many people still wear suits! I think that is more annoying to him than being warm here as they have the capability to cool people down and don't.

So, we are very happy to have fans and they seem to make all the difference!

Auf Wiedersehen!