"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Raj Feridun" <rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
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> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:01:39 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
> > >You two room together, right?
> >
> > I'm waiting for Ryan to offer.
>
> Until our addition is finished, all I can offer you is the cinder-block
> hooch downstairs. Since you're a fjlij regular and Sepponian brother,
> however, I will offer you a special discount rate, with only \5,000
> extra/night for use of the toilet and shower (hot water extra).
>
> >Okinawa would be pretty nice right
> > about now. It's FREEZING up here in the mountains of Ehime.
>
> It is freaking COLD down here too. This week, we went out and bought a
> heater because we were freezing our butts off. Knowing the mainland was
down
> to 0oC was no consolation as we suffered through 10oC weather. The news
said
> that some northern parts of the island even got hail.

Thank God you guys are wise enough to avoid charcoal braziers.
They worked well enough when homes were more than a bit drafty but with
modern construction............
I still remember sitting around a table placed over a pit in which charcoal
was burning, the table having a quilt over it.
We stuck our legs into the pit and covered our legs with the edges of the
quilt.
It was warm,