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Bad news the fyrste: I've done something painful to my leg - about 20 minutes into my run last night, something went ping in the back of my calf and now I'm hobbling like Douglas Bader on a pair of peculiarly dodgy Ludlows* - which means I can't exercise; just when I was starting to get back into shape and feeling quite fit and chipper again I'm liberally slathered in Power Gel, wrapped in an Ace bandage and hoping for the best. ::sigh::
*See The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
Good news #1: I has new Palm! Yay! My old one packed in and I seem to have been waiting for-bloody-evah for the new one to arrive, but arrive it has and now I can has fic again. Yes! And so much new fic out there in all my shiny, happy, perfect fandoms.*
*Anyone looking for excellence in Doc-Master fic could do worse than a mosey over to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
best_enemies where they're running an anonymous porn meme that is producing some rather lovely stuff so far...
Bad news the seconde: I'm still struggling to write (insert sad face). I finished my crappy short story - I had two days to bang it out before the deadline, which I did and posted it off, even though I know it's terrible - but since then, I've been doing a lot of staring at a blankly mocking screen. ::sigh:: I'm sure it's just a matter of poor self-discipline and not enough tea but it's a worry...
Good News #2: Morrisons have started selling Rose Pouchong tea! I no longer have to buy it online at great expense. This is excellent news.
Bad news the thyrde: I'm not going to GMOH. It hurts (oh how it hurts) but it's the only sensible decision in the circumstances.
Good News #3: At 3.22am last night, I finished reading the EDA* 'The Ancestor Cell' - a book I like, but am somewhat ambivalent about re: certain monkeying with the Faction Paradox (and I'll never forgive any of them for what they did to Fitz) - but a rollocking read nonetheless (and a far, far better Time War than anything Rusty's come up with so far). It's not only the end of the Time-War arc, but the last (for a while) of the books I've already read. I'm starting on mostly new-to-me EDAs. I've read the odd one here and there but most are new and shiny So I has new books squee! (Geez, I live a quiet life these days).
*Eighth Doctor Adventure.
Such is my life on this, the seventeenth day of April in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and eight. How about you, my lovelies? How's it going in your corner of this lovely planet?
*See The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
Good news #1: I has new Palm! Yay! My old one packed in and I seem to have been waiting for-bloody-evah for the new one to arrive, but arrive it has and now I can has fic again. Yes! And so much new fic out there in all my shiny, happy, perfect fandoms.*
*Anyone looking for excellence in Doc-Master fic could do worse than a mosey over to
best_enemies where they're running an anonymous porn meme that is producing some rather lovely stuff so far...Bad news the seconde: I'm still struggling to write (insert sad face). I finished my crappy short story - I had two days to bang it out before the deadline, which I did and posted it off, even though I know it's terrible - but since then, I've been doing a lot of staring at a blankly mocking screen. ::sigh:: I'm sure it's just a matter of poor self-discipline and not enough tea but it's a worry...
Good News #2: Morrisons have started selling Rose Pouchong tea! I no longer have to buy it online at great expense. This is excellent news.
Bad news the thyrde: I'm not going to GMOH. It hurts (oh how it hurts) but it's the only sensible decision in the circumstances.
Good News #3: At 3.22am last night, I finished reading the EDA* 'The Ancestor Cell' - a book I like, but am somewhat ambivalent about re: certain monkeying with the Faction Paradox (and I'll never forgive any of them for what they did to Fitz) - but a rollocking read nonetheless (and a far, far better Time War than anything Rusty's come up with so far). It's not only the end of the Time-War arc, but the last (for a while) of the books I've already read. I'm starting on mostly new-to-me EDAs. I've read the odd one here and there but most are new and shiny So I has new books squee! (Geez, I live a quiet life these days).
*Eighth Doctor Adventure.
Such is my life on this, the seventeenth day of April in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and eight. How about you, my lovelies? How's it going in your corner of this lovely planet?
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And yes, Simon Hawke's Time Wars are probably very different from the Doctor Who brand. *g* The premise is essentially that in the future, once time travel is developed, wars will be fought in the past rather than the present, thus eliminating property damage & civilian deaths. In the first book, The Ivanhoe Gambit", a referee who is supposed to be making sure both sides follow the rules, goes renegade & decides to change the future by taking Richard I's place & making sure that he doesn't go anywhere *near* Agincourt, and is thus never killed there, meaning no King John, no Magna Carta... It's a fun series, and the difficulty in finding used copies suggests that other people are as unwilling to part with theirs as I am with mine. ;-)
Sounds good. I'll try and get hold of a copy...
Sounds like you'd enjoy the DW Time War too. The Time Lords have always been insistent on non-interference in alien affairs because of the dangers of paradox. They are eventually attacked by a renegade cult of their own people who use paradox as a weapon - this leads to the Last Great Time War in which time-travelling species war against each other across time.
If you ever saw the Tom Baker Doctor's episode Genesis of the Daleks (in which he's sent back in time to destroy the species at it's genesis) - this is now considered to be a part of the Time War that's become such a major feature of the latter Doctor stories.
It's quite heavy and angsty in Who and all the Timey-Wimey stuff makes it deliciously challenging.