Flatbread Oven Building

[clarkieburger.livejournal.com]

I hope that many of you managed to make it down to Sacco Bowl Haven this morning to help out the folks at Flatbread with building their clay ovens.  It was a great time and they had a portable oven outside firing par-cooked flatbreads from the Bedford location along with some of their baked goodies.  It was a really good time and we met Jay and John, the two co-founders.  These guys showed us how to shape the clay mixed with ash, sand, and hay to form the bricks that eventually became the ovens.  What a great way to involve such a great community (I promise I'm not being paid to write about this!).

Even more awesome was seeing many lanes still open for bowling.  In fact, kiddos who tired of making bricks could be seen rolling some balls.  For those of you not in the know, Flatbread is a pizza company that has bought out Saccos.  They are using the pool hall and the space from a few of the lanes to convert into a restaurant.  10-12 lanes will be kept operational.  They plan to open in June.

Unnecessary driving. A mini rant.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Hi. Why do many people use their car to drive 4 blocks to the store, pick up potato chips or other obviously easy-to-carry items and come back home 5 minutes later? I was on my porch earlier this afternoon, and I saw my neighbors do that 2 times. They could walk, saving nasty emissions and getting some exercise. The funny thing is that these folks recycle every week and all that. I wish all the parking enforcement people keep whining about and the difficulty in finding parking to begin with, at least resulted in less unnecessary driving. There, that's my pedestrian mini rant.

California-->Davis Sq...help?!

[busylilbear.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone!
I'll be graduating from UC Berkeley next month and I'm planning to move to Boston. After ::extensive:: searching, I've absolutely fallen in love with Davis Square! Here's the rub: the same few places keep showing up on Craigslist, and most of them are awful.

Does anyone here know of an apartment opening up for 6/1?

Here's the details from my end:
*as close to the T station as possible... so less than a mile would be ideal
*cat friendly
*1-br (preferably), or studio
*laundry in building, heat included (ideally)
*parking would be awesome, but I can deal either way
*non-basement... it doesn't have to have a zillion windows, but I need SOME light, especially when adjusting to Boston winters! ;)
*I can pay up to $1200... although on a post-college budget, less is obviously better

If you do set me up with a place, I'm thinking some sort of compensation or homemade cookies would definitely be in order :)

Thank you guys in advance. I can't WAIT to move out there and experience all of the amazing stuff that everyone's been posting about on here!!