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I got a request for more tigers on my blogger blog. I hope I didn't overdo it.

Jeannette has posted on her blog about the new ISU Alumni Online Directory called CySpace. It's available to all ISU alumni, whether or not they are members of the Alumni Association, until Homecoming this year. Jeannette wrote a lot about it already that I don't want to duplicate, but I think it would be nice if all ISU Alumni could check it out, and make sure their stuff is up to date. And get in touch with us if you knew one of us. Read Jeannette's post for more info about it if you didn't get an email from the Alumni Association already.

At the end of September, I will have been living in Germany for 3 years. I have mostly acclimated to living here (though I wish I was better with the language...), but every once in a while there is something that I just haven't gotten used to. After my recent business trip to Dresden, I realized that the bedding in German hotels, and presumably on most German beds in general, does not suit me at all.

In the US, you always get a fitted sheet over the mattress, a flat sheet to sleep under and however many blankets you need to pile on to maintain the warmth required for your personal comfort. I need to have SOMETHING on me when I sleep, so the thin sheet works great on hot summer nights. It's less of an issue in the winter, since blankets go on top. However, in Germany, the nice thin sheet is nonexistent. No matter what the season, there is a blankety thing that is way to heavy for the summer and usually too light for the winter. Again, winter is not a big deal, because additional blankets are easy to pile on. But in the summer, I try to sleep with it, and usually wake up in a pool of sweat a few hours later.

What's up with that? Why isn't there any sort of lightweight sleeping-under-thingy available in German hotels?

Back in the days before that other photo site many of us used started arbitrarily censoring, there was a group of us in Heilbronn that got together approximately monthly for a photo rodeo. Since the shakeup over there, we haven't had another Heilbronn photo meetup. I'd like to do it again sometime. Lars? Marco? Ingo? Ralf? What do you think? The invitation goes to anyone else in or around Heilbronn too. We just need to figure out where and when. I think when will have to be september. Where? Who knows....