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I run a moderate-sized (12 to 15 people) meetup group for people with Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning autism. We usually meet at a restaurant. We used to reserve a meeting room at the Pantry, but the Pantry closed down a couple of years ago and we've been drifting around from one place to another trying to find a suitable spot. We tried the meeting rooms at the Bard & Banker pub, and a meeting room at The Office lounge, but being pub-bar-type places they were just too noisy. Right now we meet at ABC Country restaurant.

I'd like it if we could find either a restaurant with a private meeting room that doesn't charge extra for it (and also doesn't have a minimum charge for food per person) or a place that has a meeting room where people could bring in food if they wanted to. (This is mainly because for me and for some others the meeting is right after work and there isn't time to go home and have supper first.)

We can't pay for a meeting room, so the public library is out, as are the Vic West Community Centre and the YMCA.

If anyone has any suggestions, they would be welcome.

Has anyone rented from Apartments r Us? I have heard some horror stories, but they've always been second or third-hand. Googling doesn't turn up anything. Are they really any worse than Devon or Brown Bros? I'm looking for a suite that allows cats, and their ads are tempting.

Hello Victoria people,

I am moving from Vancouver to Victoria for a summer internship. I'll be bringing a large suitcase and at least 1, possibly two, large duffel bags. I'm wondering if it is necessary to buy a ticket for the Pacific Coach bus or if I can take the regular BC Transit bus with all my luggage? If I tried to take my luggage on a regular bus would I be in danger of getting stuck on the ferry port until a bus could fit me? Does it really piss off other bus passengers to see someone taking up space with luggage?

Any feedback is appreciated!

There's a radio advert being run on the likes of the Zone FM that talks about buying local to help the economy. Some of the wording was -interesting- but I can't recall whose running it, so I can find a transcript or check that I wasn't mishearing their analogy.

Edit solved it :

The Zone FM is running an ad that start something like "take a stick, and bend it. It breaks. Take a bundle of sticks and they are stronger together. Victoria's economy is like that... the more we stick together, the stronger we are". Very good, except they may want to look at the etymology of "Fascist", which comes from the Italian/Latin :

"The term fascismo is derived from the Latin word fasces. The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe, was an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate" (ref: wikipedia).

The symbology is that a single stick is weak, while a bundle of sticks is strong. "The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity". A common idea through early fascism, and on into the 1920's and 30's heyday of fascism, used by Mussolini and others.

The advert is paid for by the Zone FM (a message from the zone fm) and is a mostly reasonable request for people to think about buying local, to support local businesses and keep the Greater Victoria economy strong (strength through unity). I'm sure they don't really mean a local nationalism, to build a anti-liberal, corporatist armed revolution. I wouldn't expect the next Fascist revolutionaries to be fueled by an alternative rock radio station on an island of the left coast of North America.

So, possibly a metaphor that's interesting to use. And probably 200 feet above the heads of most people anyways.

where should i take my macbook to get fixed?

Best place in Victoria to get a mani/pedi?

Has anyone taken the VIHA entrance exam? I know it's just multiple choice, but anything else you could tell me about it would be great!

How hard it was, did it mainly cover terminology or was there a good mix of the pathology in there as well?

Thanks!