Jim reads for a while before deciding that maybe he didn't quiet understand this stuff. He chucks the book, and ponders what to do next. "What to do...what to do..."
He walks over to his book shelf and ponders book titles...
"The Joy of Cooking...No..."
"'How I did it' - V. Frankenstein....Nah..."
"Mein Kampf? Too Teutonic!"
"The Time Machine! Of course...I'll build a Time Machine!"
So Jim spends the next 3 months pounding together his time machine. At the end of the process it little resembles the classic movie version. It looks more like a standup shower with a bunch of numbered dials instead of single shower handle.
"Hmmm...odd...I was going more for something more cyberpunkish...oh well..."
Jim jumps into the device, turns the dials for 1066 BC, and flips the main switch. There is a loud POP! and things go all wavey for a moment.
"Hmm...kinda lame...", he mumbles as he exits, and finds himself . . .
Fri Apr 20 20:31:19 2001