OK, this is my geekiness poking through into my furry life. One of the things that clinched me being a rat, besides my extensive work with the lab variety, was these rats called Nezumi. They are from a CCG called Legend of the Five Rings. I played as them a lot. This was made by Corene Werhane, also known as Nezumi, for the game and specifically for a major tournament called a Kotei. She did the Psychadelic Avatar card for me when I was first starting to play on the Napping Cat's Dream. I love her work. Check it out. http://www.mousehaunt.com/

As for the placement of my icons, there is a method to the madness. It goes back to when I started out with just a few icons. I started clustering together things of a similar type: AV stuff in the lower right, games/entertainment in the upper right, production and informational in the lower left and what I call "administrative" VPN, internet, my computer, and basically everything else in the upper left. Originally all my icons were the same but when I had to change resolution to connect to my TV, I realized that it was a bitch to get everything in the same place quickly so I made each sector a different type icon.