<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Rob!<div>I AM a Wood Dragon. January 11, 1965. <a href="http://www.chinesezodiac.com/calculator.php">http://www.chinesezodiac.com/calculator.php</a> It says that dragons make good architects, too. So there. </div><div><br></div><div>See smoke coming out of my nose? </div><div><br></div><div>Maybe I'll have to get a wood dragon tattooed on my side and half way up my back (or maybe I've already got one... ;) - you'll never find out over email.</div><div><br></div><div>1/11/11 is a FIRST for me and promises to be a great year. Sweden and the Baltic are cool (literally) all on their own, but I must admit to enjoying the food, wine and warmth of Italy at Christmas just a wee bit more.</div><div><br></div><div>Next stop Gaudi and Barcelona for March! Anyone know anyone that has an two bedroom apartment to rent in Barcelona starting March 1? Throw me all your leads offline. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm so grateful for my far flung strawbale family. Cheers and thanks all! </div><div><br></div><div>För min födelsedag, låt oss tillbringa mars i Barcelona!</div><div><br></div><div>Kelly</div><div><a href="mailto:klerner@one-world-design.com">klerner@one-world-design.com</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2011, at 5:04 PM, RT wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>For those odd few who have not been provided with Japanese lessons by Satomi, the subject is of course a birthday greeting to YakWoman (aka "Kelly Lerner") whose birthday this year is numerically interesting -- numerologically, I haven't a clue. (Okay, okay. I'm generally clue-less on everything but I don't see what that's got to do with anything.)<br><br>And FYI, YakWoman set me straight once in the past when I incorrectly suggested that she is a "Snake person" (re: Chinese Zodiac). She is in fact (so YakWoman claims), a Dragon. <a href="http://www.chinesezodiac.com/dragon.php">http://www.chinesezodiac.com/dragon.php</a><br><br>Me ? Nyeh! I'm not convinced.<br>My guess is that somewhere, somehow, someone got Kelly's birth records mixed up. I still say she's a Snake.<br><br>"What the %#@^#&@# does this have to do with Strawbale ?" you might ask.<br><br>And to that I would reply:<br><br> "Well, just check the Strawbale Registry<br><br> <a href="http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/">http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/</a><br><br> and note which country has the greatest number of SB buildings registered.<br><br>Yup. China.<br>(Obviously, one can disregard the number listed for Murrica. Clearly the Shrub's brother was in charge of counting the chits there)<br><br>And who do you think played a major role in introducing SBC to China, Mongolia etc. ?<br><br> <a href="http://www.one-world-design.com/international.asp?pid=10">http://www.one-world-design.com/international.asp?pid=10</a><br><br>Uh huh. As that guy from the Monty Python troupe was fond of saying: "Need I say more ?"<br>Other than (in Swedish, Sweden being YakWoman's current locale) :<br><br>" Alla till kellys hus för ett parti ! Eh?"<br><br>-- <br>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><br>manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply"<br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection <a href="aroundhttp://mail.yahoo.com_______________________________________________">aroundhttp://mail.yahoo.com_______________________________________________</a><br>GSBN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GSBN@greenbuilder.com">GSBN@greenbuilder.com</a><br>http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/GSBN<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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