Bah. I just went and Googled and yellow page'd around looking for the housing/sublet/roommate referral service I used a few years ago to find my completely awesome (except for the deadbeat landlords) affordable 1BR apt in Berkeley, and I'm coming up completely blank. I know exactly where it is, too (downtown Berkeley BART, the intersection with the toy and game shop on the corner, walk up that street toward campus, and it's about halfway up the block); I just can't find the damn name.

Trudy beat me to it. I had MM's post on my clipboard and was ready to go.

I know exactly where it is, too (downtown Berkeley BART, the intersection with the toy and game shop on the corner, walk up that street toward campus, and it's about halfway up the block); I just can't find the damn name.

Go to Google Earth and zoom in 'til you see it.

Wait, that won't work, but wasn't there a service where you could see pictures of a business if you knew the address/block it was on, etc?

Does Google Earth still hate Safari?

Anyhow, P-C should just go poke around in that neighborhood just for the hell of it. Good game store (including the Clovis-inspired Devilbunny games), cheap slices of pizza bigger than your head, gelato shop nearby, excellent comic book store and SF/fantasy bookstore and Half Price Books just a couple blocks away.

Good game store (including the Clovis-inspired Devilbunny games), cheap slices of pizza bigger than your head, gelato shop nearby, excellent comic book store and SF/fantasy bookstore and Half Price Books just a couple blocks away.

I've poked around that area! I bought some CDs from Half Price. That's why I want to live around that area because having all that within walking distance would make me happy.

Can I have an aardvark?

You think *that's* cute?

Who wouldn't love this face? And that schnozz? And those ears?

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Any Victorian-era-loving Bitches wanna play name that heirloom?

In the book I'm working on, an older woman asks her niece to get her the Victorian-era [insert thingie here] that her cousin (who has recently died) got from their grandmother upon *her* death. Story is that it was given by Queen Victoria to a lady's maid as a gift, and then to someone else, who gave it to the women's grandmother. Surviving 80ish woman wants it, because she always thought it should have gone to her instead of her cousin.

But what could it be? I want something kind of unique and very of the era, but also something that hide letters, since that will play into the plot later on. A jewelry box seems logical, but also kind of expected, what with the somtimes-secret-compartment-having and all.

Thoughts?

You know, I owned the Devilbunny games before "meeting" Jilli, and I've always wondered if Clovis inspired them.

(I'm about to have a work freak-out. Feel free to skip this entirely)

OMGWTF, that very important tool did NOT just mysteriously die and not work on this very important document. Please tell me that I have fallen asleep at my desk and am having a nightmare. Please. LIVE! OBEY ME! DO NOT THROW FREAKY ERROR MESSAGES AT ME!

hyperventilates, contemplates hiding under the desk

Amy, how about a clock? Mantle sized, plays something on the quarter hour?

Like this: [link]