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The first million years, they were the worst. The second million years, they were the worst too.

Yesterday my laptop did the same failure-to-recognize-USB-device,-then-failure-to-restart thing as it did last month. I didn't realize initially that it was the same drill because this time it didn't fail to recognize the thumb drive, but the refusal to restart propertly till it'd been left alone for two hours gave it away.

This time there'd been no lunch hour in a cold car. I've been told before that Windows OSs can't be left on indefinitely, but it's been my habit on this machine to hibernate instead of power down so that Firefox doesn't lose my logins. I don't know how long it'd been last time since the thing had had a hard shutdown, but I know this time it'd been a week and a half. I'll have to stop letting it go more'n a week, and I'll have to set myself a reminder in my spreadsheet.

Writer's Block: Countdown

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Ten minutes? Give me sixty seconds. I'll make sure I have my laptop (including power cord and wireless mouse) and my USB drive, and then I have all my data and a second copy of the most important. Shuck'em into my laptop bag and I have my primary arthurian sourcebooks too (though if we weren't taking our own car I'd have to get the New Arthurian Encyclopedia from it).

With ten minutes I suppose I'd also grab spare socks and underwear.

qtrhorserider would probably want enough stuff to fill the other nine minutes though. The kids' baby momentos, the Doctor Who DVDs ... she's got data on two or three computers she'd want kept ...

The Hero of Three Faces excerpt: an alternative to Season 8, 1/?

Title: excerpts, The Hero of Three Faces, 1/?
Author: scarfman
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Willow, Xander. Angel, Spike, Gunn. The Doctor^8,11, Martha, Tom. Buffy/Angel, Martha/Tom.
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): This segment - all aired Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Doctor Who; minor spoiler for Season 8.
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of Mutant Enemy, Fox and the BBC. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Buffy and Angel need a purpose; the Doctor helps show the way.
These samples from my fanfiction crossover comic strips are the first few installments of a projected ongoing series offering the characters an alternative post-Chosen, post-Not Fade Away history from "Season 8".
Note the Hero of Three Faces convention that characters against the black page, outside panel borders, are beyond the fourth wall.

( ''The big stink in BVS fandom right now'' )

Thanks for reading.

No Lesser Evil 5/5; the Doctor, Janeway, crew of Voyager; PG

Title: No Lesser Evil 5/5
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: The Doctor, Janeway, crew of Voyager
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises c. 1997
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of Paramount Pictures and the BBC. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: What's worse than being caught in Borg space during an invasion? Being caught in Borg space during two invasions.
crossposted scarfman dwfiction crossing_who trekfics

( Captain's log, supplemental: We've nearly completed our journey through the tri-meson-free path we're tunneling through the nebula, but we have an unexpected complication - a Dalek in a damaged pod has requested aid. Tuvok and the Doctor have gone to the shuttle bay to oversee the assistance rendered to the Dalek, and hopefully to find the answer to the question on my mind: what was the Dalek running from? )