Hot nights

Summer is officially here and I am feeling the heat. There are supposed to be many power outages during the summer due to the projected increase power consumption and the shut downs of various nuclear power plants. I am getting worried on how I will be able to survive this summer if the AC is not on consistently. The average high now is around 26, which is not that bad at all but the humidity levels are through the roof. During the day time I actually don't suffer that much, but at night, it is unbearable and I am unable to sleep. It doesn't help either that my apartment is situated where the wind hardly goes through. I bought one of those "space age" cool mats a couple of years ago where it was made with special material to cool down the body when it touches it. It works pretty well for the first few minutes, but when the body heat goes back up and the cool cells don't have time to get cold again, the mat actually works as an insulator with my body heat and makes me even hotter. I am using a fan now, but it doesn't really work so well in combating the high levels of humidity. I need to find a way to cool down soon.

Exhausted.

House hunting is really exhausting. The sales guys that I've interacted are really convincing and every meeting I had with them felt like another brain washing session. I am still unsure on exactly what I will do. Even though I have only looked at houses so far, buying a "manshon" or Japanese equivalent of a condo is still very much in the picture. I just haven't formally made an appointment with a real estate company that deals with condos yet as the house appointments take up the whole weekend. So my progress so far still appears to be the same as when I first embarked in the long and tiring adventure a month ago. So tired...