From the ETYMONLINE:

room - O.E. rum, from P.Gmc. *ruman. Originally "space" (a sense preserved in make room), meaning "chamber, cabin" first recorded 1312 as a nautical term, and first applied 1457 to chambers within houses. The O.E. word for this was cofa, ancestor of cove. Roommate is 1838, Amer.Eng.; roomy is from 1627.

Nothing special about this word, except that it made me dissappear for so long. I was told by our excrescent landlord to hit the road as he got tired of those querulous foreigners, and it took me almost three weeks to find something that had a semblance of human quarters (for instance, I was offered a windowless basement for 250 us$!!). Now I reside in the heart of the Taipei’s Shida night market (between Taiwan’s two major universities), which is very convenient, but noisy (esp. a group of hellraising cats which seem to mistaken the warm weather for spring and the activities related to it)
Well, after moving I thought I could settle down (mentally, that is), but that’s when everyone’s sneezing finally got to me and took me down. Now I consume huge amounts of tea, honey and whiskey, trying to convince myself I’m getting the upper hand against the microbs.

resettled norio  :P

Welcome back, norio.

And here I thought you were referring to that timely phrase, ‘room at the inn’, oft mentioned along with other Christmas tales.

Sorry to hear of your troubles, norio, but so nice to see you back!

-Tim

Get well, norio!

I hate moving more than anything else (except landlords).

I really sympathize!

(There’s no place like home) But where is that?

Sitran

Thank you all very much for the kind words, really.

As for ‘excrescent’, it also has the meaning of ‘redundant’:
here

excrescent
a. growing out from main body; redundant. excrescential, a. excrescence, n. such thing.

and here:

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition:   [adj]  forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)  
 
Webster’s 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition:   \Ex*cres"cent\, a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of
excrescere to grow out; ex out + crescere to grow. See
{Crescent}.]
Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a
superfluity.

     Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts.—Pope.

{Excrescent letter} (Philol.), a letter which has been added
  to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent
  letter.

Where is home? That’s a very good, question, Sitran. Although I wasn’t born there, and even didn’t grow up there, I’d like to think of Jerusalem, City of God, as my home. Believe me, there’s nothing quite like Jerusalem on a Friday, when the sun is just about to set, and a kind of special stillness, and even peace, yes, a feeling of peace descending on this city. The rooftops of churches, mosques and synagougues are awash with kind of melancholic gold, a soft murmur of prayers goes up to heaven- we say that on Friday afternoon, just before Shabbat sets in, the gates of heaven are opened especially wide to prayers.

And that’s also where my alma mater is, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

norio

semi-Troglodyte in far away Taipei

 Amen

-norio