various fanfics: Doctor Who and a Ginny

Yesterday I somehow found a recommendation of a particular Doctor Who fanfic author. I checked out their work and lo, it is good. I read all of their pieces with characters I knew and liked almost all of those. They're all short; by far the longest is a 13,000 word Jack Harkness story spread over four chapters. Some are outright drabbles.

Judoon translation problems http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42857

why a police box http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42792

alien view of Earth http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=43183

Captain Jack Harkness joins the TARDIS
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=43209
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=43389
"I remembered a line from a story, something about the point of
Winterfest being that, if you were very good and very lucky, you could
grow up to be Grandfather Holly. (Or Father Christmas, or San' Nicalos,
depending on your tradition.)"

Leela and the audio recorder http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=46430

Blon Slitheen egg http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=44989

Vashta/Jenny metabolism http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=46708

Jack and Alonso http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=45542

"Maps Written in Code" http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=48320

Martha/11th/other http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=47140

11th/cooking http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=49024

Rory gets a gift http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=44198

healing the crack http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=45670

regenerations http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=47402
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42809

Rory the Roman, and stuff http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42931

a rescue http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=53134

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Totally unrelated is a Ginny Weasley piece I read today. More of a perspective shifter than a story, but still nice. http://www.tor.com/2016/10/31/women-of-harry-potter-ginny-weasley-is-not-impressed/

MGH/Boston parking madness

Between Charles/MGH and the West End BPL, I passed an odd parking lots with cars on platforms above other cars. At first I thought of some car sales lot, because it made me think of car transport trucks, but I eventually guessed and confirmed that it was a valet parking lot. If your car is on a lift and you want to get out, the valet moves the car underneath, lowers your car, and off you go. Cost unknown, I was told it was hospital only, I'm guessing for employees.

It's right next to a huge six story garage, which itself is right next to *another* huge six story garage, both for "patients and visitors only". These do have prices. For patients, $9 for the first hour, then scaling up a bit to $14/day. For "visitors"/"public" (do they have a way of confirming you're visiting a patient?) it's $12/hour, capping at $48/day.

The city meters on the exact same block are Boston's usual $1.25/hour, 2 hour max. Almost exactly 1/10th the price.

I say "MGH" in the subject, but I assume the garage prices are vaguely in line with supply and demand, combined with some deliberate subsidy for patients (priced to mean "we'd prefer you not drive at all, but if you must then we recognize you probably need to and aren't going anywhere for a while") and a lack of choice relative to e.g. Chinatown garages (when you have to go to the hospital you have to go... though if you're a visitor, you do have choices of the T or taxis.) I think they're a bit higher than e.g. Chinatown prices but not hugely so.

But the meter price? Goddamn.