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I'm doing Doctor Who recs again for rec50. I participated back in August 2006 (my old recs table is over here) and I'm giving it a go again. New table is under the cut. I doubt I'll make it to 50 recommendations this time, but we'll see.

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I decided to try to get more organized. I recently did a week's worth of fic recommendations at calufrax (the rec comm for stories posted at Teaspoon) and below are my picks.

Go over to Calufrax to read my comments on each story, and also to see all the great recs made by other people.

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So, I'm over at fanfiction.net just about every day, hoping to see something worth reading. More often, however, I find crap like the following in the Doctor Who section:

it's a reunion story with jack in it an the geast star face of boe but what happands when the doctor gets to pete's world.

And that was just the summary! Somehow I made it all the way through the abysmal first chapter, as well. Looking back, though, I'm not sure how.

On a brighter note, I might be doing DW recs for rec50 again. At least, I volunteered and am waiting to hear back. I made 50 recs over there in 2006 and by now I think I can come up with a lot of new ones.

Non-Doctor pairings for characters with names M-Z, plus crossover stories.

Any broken links, corrections, additions? Comment and let me know so I can fix them.

These are completed stories not yet on the
who_otp master list.

All my lists:
Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master lists
Doctors One-Five pairings
Doctors Six-Ten (or later) pairings
Non-Doctor pairings A-G
Non-Doctor pairings H-L
Non-Doctor pairings M-Z, crossover stories
To see links to all lists on one page, go here.

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My new computer burns DVDs. What I did not realize until last night is that it doesn't burn the files in order. Like, I have five things I want to burn on one disk. And I want them in alphabetical order on the disk. And when I select the files I want to burn, not only are they in that alphabetical order but I click on them in the order I want the burn to go. Well, they don't come out that way. In fact, I haven't been able to figure out how my computer DOES settle on the order it uses. To me, it appears to be a random jumble. To my computer, the order evidently makes perfect sense, as three burns over two days have resulted in the same order. So now I have three disks with files a, b, c, d, and e in the order d, a, e, b, c. At this rate, I'm going to run out of blank DVDs.

This is really starting to piss me off.

Generally when I have trouble with something, I look online and find a solution. No luck with that method so far. Option B, I'd download a DVD-burning program that presumably would do what I want, only most of them cost actual money. Or else they aren't compatible with Vista. Or else I tried them last summer (when I was burning on computers away from home) and they weren't user-friendly.

The one good, reliable program I did discover, and still use away from home on XP computers, won't work with Vista. Even if it did, it's trialware and after 10 days, you have to pay for it. All the accessories I need/want cost more than the damn computer itself did! (I still have to buy an anti-virus program, which is another reason I'm reluctant to do any more downloading than I already have.)

I didn't have to think about these things with my old computer. She didn't have a DVD burner, and in the nine years and three months I used her, I never did buy anti-virus software.

Upon hearing that my computer had died, my mother came up with the brilliant idea of buying me a USED one. And apparently, shipping it to me, which would cost a small fortune. She meant well, but she knows little about computers and could easily have bought me something totally unsuitable. Besides, for the cost of a used (possibly well outdated) computer plus postage, I could buy a new one locally that suits my needs.

Which is exactly what I did today. It won't be delivered and installed till next Tuesday, but I've made it this long without one. Luckily, I had saved enough money over the last several months that I had enough to cover all the costs with a little left over.

It'll be great to finally be able to get online from home with a fast computer that can do what I want.

A few years ago, I scanned some of the autographed celebrity photos I've collected. And I just found the website where I posted them. In case anyone is interested in looking, it's here.

As an idea of what pics I have, there's a "movie actors" section (including Joan Fontaine, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, and Shirley Temple), TV actors (William Shatner, Susan Lucci, etc.), about a dozen athletes (including Arnold Palmer, Steve Young, and Nancy Kerrigan), a dozen politicians (including President Clinton), and eight singers (Barbra Streisand and Dean Martin are two).

Got tagged by happydalek and decided to fill this out.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

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I tag: cersia5, eryaforsthye, fearlessfirefly, mad_march_hare, and seldra. (ETA: I really can count. For some reason, though, I accidentally tagged just five people instead of seven and after the fact, there's no point in adding two.)

List of fic with Doctor pairings, Doctors One-Five (Six-Ten are in a separate post). Any broken links, corrections, additions? Comment and let me know so I can fix them.

These are completed stories not yet on the
who_otp master list.

All my lists:
Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master lists
Doctors One-Five pairings
Doctors Six-Ten (or later) pairings
Non-Doctor pairings A-G
Non-Doctor pairings H-L
Non-Doctor pairings M-Z, crossover stories
To see links to all lists on one page, go here.

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Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master fic. Academy-era Doctor/Master and Ten/Simm!Master stories will not be listed because those pairings are fairly common and it would require too much work to keep up on them.

Any broken links, corrections, additions? Comment and let me know so I can fix them.

These are completed stories not yet on the
who_otp master list.

All my lists:
Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master lists
Doctors One-Five pairings
Doctors Six-Ten (or later) pairings
Non-Doctor pairings A-G
Non-Doctor pairings H-L
Non-Doctor pairings M-Z, crossover stories
To see links to all lists on one page, go here.

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