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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Time: Broken (continued from “Nobody Home”)




(continued from “Nobody Home”)


Okay Anthony, I'm back messaging again! We're definitely dealing with a serious mess. Low charge on my phone so this may end shortly, dunno... Remember the electricity from a potato trick? I managed with six good-sized ones and some copper wires and zinc-plated nails to trickle onto this thing so I think this will be my best hope for fixing things here and getting back. God I hope we can do it!
I've had some time to consider the mess I'm in...all of us I guess. Whatever is going on here I don't know, but things are freak'n slowed way down somehow. Even the light seems less brilliant and when I cranked up a Victrola, the speed was waaaay slow. So, if I get the Centrifuge to reset, I think I can jump ahead and get things right. Nut'n to loose, right? Well this is the deal...everyone in the past is dead right? That seems logical, and no matter where I go it's like a constant, not even a bug, so I am looking at a loop in the light from a spot in time. I can move around in it and I can touch stuff, but whatever I do may mess with all of us in the future....I can jump from one point to another but it's always just like a picture. So if I break something or try to hide the gun Booth used to kill Lincoln, I will make things in the future shift a little, or even a lot. I wonder if I may already have had a big shift in what we were all doing before I began pulling pages from that sears catalog in the outhouse. Maybe the County Judge would have bought his kid the bicycle on those pages, and he won't break his neck, instead, he'll go fight in Europe, and end up killing Einstein's dad or something...RIGHT? Well just imagine if the Germans ended up with the 'bomb' and well, the good ole USA is a giant wasteland now? Crap! Heavy I know...but that's why I got to jump ahead and fix the stuff I messed with, even if it only works one more time...right?
Anthony, I removed some papers from that outhouse, for a souvenir, and...when I left there, stuff had already changed. Like that! I mean there was sidewalks when I got here and now there is just a dirt path, so crap, I really did stink up the place!
When you get this, your day should be just like it would have been. The control panel is working, got into it and made an override and it will send me one day earlier. I think that's best so I don't tax the power supply making a long jump....save some to get back....well the thing is I could reappear right where someone left a wagon or whatever just so you know. That could just make things even worse, jeez, what a mess. As best I can tell, I should pop right back into that open spot you had picked. I hope the chamber doesn't get damaged...anyway, if you have to come after me, that's where I'll be.

So that's it for now, wish me luck, and if it's not possible...well I'll understand. I will just wait and keep out of trouble, but if it doesn't work out, I think I will need to disappear. Sorta like you said, “If you aren't part of the solution just get out of the way and let the future do it's thing...right?” So, here's to us and man I hope we can pull this off...cuz this place will really get you messed up fast! Heck on your end I probably sound like I'm inhaling helium when I talk, ha ha, hysterical eh?
Well, it's been cool, and scary, so ok. I'm signing off, man, bye for now. Oh yeah, don’t let my kid think I was a total screw up, I'm going to fix this time thing, man, after all I broke it.

Now if I could just get that slo-mo version of “Yellow Rose of Texas” out of my head...….click.







Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Nobody Home





Anthony, I hope you get this...in case you don't I left a note explaining everything. (Wow, that was dumb!) I'm not sure how to tell you... I guess I just have to come right out and say it. I went into the centrifuge tonight, I thought I would go blind from the bright light, but I'm alright, I mean it really works and you are truly a genius!  The control is malfunctioning, so I need you to please override every thing from there. Well, sorry but I knew you would just talk me out of it, but I'm fine, no side effects. Man, all your theories were right. So?...I am talking to you from  one hundred years ago! Since I am able to hear the voice mail message on my cell, I think your concept of time parallels was right. If you hear me, pick up, or call me back. So exciting...click

Anthony! Okay, it's 2 am, call as soon as you hear this. I know you will because I called my voice mail and changed the message and then called back. God it's cool, call it and listen, it's like I'm talking to myself in the future. I really want to thank you for giving me this, well, this great chance to work in your lab. Don't think I just wanted to take the glory or something, that's all yours. You just consider me your little human Guinea Pig, and well thanks. Got some great pictures on my phone and sent them to my blog...I was looking at them just a bit ago on my cell. Everything is so astonishing, did you know the courthouse had his and hers outhouses? Jeez they did use Sears in there, I wonder if I shouldn't have left a loaf from the future? Well...call....click

Anthony, Hey it's getting light and I think people will be getting up soon. I really don't want to make contact with. ..you know, just in case....isn't that right? Call me as soon as you get to the lab and reverse the dynamo. I wonder if I can bring anything back without messing with the time continuum? Just a letter from the trash or something...hey, call, it's so incredible, I want to talk to someone and see what they're like...bye....click

Anthony, it's 6 am, I just called the New York Times, crazy you know... just so I could hear them pickup. Well it just rang, so I guess they must not man that line...right...So it's light here now...There isn't any movement yet. Very lovely..and quiet. Well we will have to go over all this, I have like 100 pictures on my phone. Call...call soon...click

Okay Anthony, this is so weird. Everything is like a museum. I can't find anyone anywhere. What's strange is that there had to be people here not long ago. Lamps are burning in the homes, it's like they all went somewhere. Well I probably shouldn't have entered peoples homes here, I don't think ...man! It's too crazy... I didn't think it will hurt... In case anything goes wrong, well...you know....if you can't bring me back? That's so lame, to hear me say...just don't come here! I can't exactly say why because we didn't figure on this one...but I sorta think there isn't anyone here. I looked all over and there's nobody, it's uninhabited. I mean it makes sense when you think about it, right?...click

Anthony....I called everyone, I can't get a pickup. Anthony, I think I screwed up...
BATTERY LOW....BATTERY STRENGTH CRITICAL...PLACE PHONE IN CHARGING CRADLE...BATTERY LOW........ . . . . . 


continued in "Time Broken"