sundries

- I am going to visit Soren at the hospital tomorrow.

- I found gluten-free frozen meals that actually understand celiac disease. Aside from having more calories than the average frozen meal (about 400 as opposed to about 200), they also have extra vitamins added. This addresses two major problems celiacs have.

- Really. Fic TODAY.

- Work.

- Oh LJ. Yesterday someone was all up in my shit on the New Yorkers forum. Today, I had to tell someone on the steampunk community to not use "gay" as a negative adjective. I'm expecting someone to blame Jews for the banking crisis at any moment.

- Financial crisis things to keep an eye on:
The situation with AIG remains unstable. Bank of America is having stock drops and problems with people buying into their new issuances that are designed to fund their acquisitions of failing companies. This could lead to some very bad news in a couple of weeks if these things aren't brought under control.

- Random financial crisis piece of advice:
While the FDIC means your money is safe and you should not take your money out of the bank and put it in your mattress, remember that sentiment makes people act crazy. Always have $100 in small bills in your house. ALWAYS. Good for disasters, power outages, etc., also good if all the dipshits in your neighborhood panic and empty the ATMs on a Friday and you need cash (I used to lived in the East Village -- this happened all the time just from the night life. With paranoid bullshit emails going around about how the government is going to shut off all the ATMs (they're not), have cash on hand in case idiots try to make your life inconvenient).

TW Fic: And I Cannot Know How Long She Has Dreamed of All of You (Jack/Nine/Rose)

Title: And I Cannot Know How Long She Has Dreamed of All of You
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Nine/Rose/TARDIS to varying degrees and in varying combinations
Authors: rm & kalichan
Rating/Content: NC-17, het, slash, recreational intoxication (everyone not Jack is too uptight!!)
Summary: In which Captain Jack Harkness learns a new kind of dance. Begins just after Doctor Who 1x10: The Doctor Dances, and goes on to bookend Doctor Who 1x11: Boomtown.
Wordcount: ~18,500 (posted in three parts)
Authors' Notes: This is a part of our Jack/Ianto series, I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling. While it can be considered a prequel, it is in this position in the arc (after significant Jack/Ianto relationship development) for a timey-whimey reason, which will become clear later. You don't have to read the rest of the series to read this though. However, if you are reading that, you should read this, as it will be useful/relevant later.

(Jack couldn't quite shake the feeling that he'd wandered into someone else's story.)

Personal note: I don't understand Time Lords. Kali does, thankfully. This was a slog to write and under difficult circumstances. When it finally came together, it made me cry (meaning: I'm really very pleased).

Tomorrow? CERN fluff for those of you anxious for us to get back to the Jack/Ianto part of this tale.

meanwhile, this shit makes me spitting mad

http://vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2017

welcome to the slow crash

I think this stock market thing will bottom out at DJIA 6,700 and then rebound into the DJIA 8-9,000 range soon there after.

Things to watch:
The collapse of the Australian dollar.
The collapse of the Icelandic banking system.
German real estate.