( your fire exits need monitoring, your communication lines are vulnerable, and your rent-a-cops are a tad undertrained... )

Room 281, first and foremost, has a waterbed. Carl's wanted one for a while, but it's out of the question in his current apartment complex and he wouldn't know where to start for getting one in Milliways. And the real plus around here is the thing will never need mattress conditioner or bust a seam ( Read more... )

The door out of the bar leads into... a closet. Office supplies, a few gadgets specific to the job, and the coffee stockpile take up one side, while the other mostly has cleaning supplies and an empty shelf about five feet off the ground - Suzi's left her mark ( Read more... )

And everything Carl's got for the next job is good to go, so for now, he's moved on to other matters. The sooner he gets things for Suzi's paperwork in motion, the better it'll likely be for everyone involved ( Read more... )

"...Carl? What are you - did the closet eat you or something ( Read more... )

So when I tire of poking at the Internet for a while, and it's not so late as to justify sleep, I watch movies. This particular bout of movie-watching turned into an attempt to be productive for future endeavors and work out a timeline for canon. And can I just say, from what I've figured this looks like one busy week and a half ( Read more... )

True, he probably shouldn't have left the notebook sitting around where Mother could find it. And leaving it open to what he's already thinking of as Suzi's page - 'tentacles?' circled in the middle, and something about Chernobyl crossed out to one side - was probably asking for trouble. But still, Carl usually expects the things on his desk to ( Read more... )

When you tell someone like Carl you're probably going to need paperwork for something, and the official way isn't precisely possible, there are only so many potential outcomes ( Read more... )

When there's a lull around the place, Carl makes sure his little black book is up to date. Wouldn't do any good to let it fall behind when you never know when you might need those access numbers.
Trouble is, this stuff takes a while, so he's got some reading material on hand too.