Ya, sure, you betcha. We were like Garrison Keillor's family. Never had an AC unit growing up- and my sis and I would find some reason to go to the neighbor's, whose kids we didn't really like, to bask in the coolness of their one window unit. And in the car, my dad would tell us we had "4-60" air con: 4 windows down, 60 Mph. Here in sultry, sweltering SE Asia, AC is a necessity. It's always just perplexing, though, and so utterly wasteful, that thing that I'll never understand as long as I live, and I'm sure you'll all concur- why in the H, do they have to make every single air conditioned space as freaking arctic-cold as possible? It's a shock to the system- and why you see HK ladies on a blisteringly hot day carrying their sweaters and shawls around, because as soon as they go into a building, it's a freezer. Today, for example, 8:30 AM right now, and, let's see-- oh, heck, it's only 30, with 85% humidity. Pretty good start to the day. And then, of course, the usual monsoon around lunchtime... (that's 84 for you imperialist Western running dogs).