I arrived in Houston on Friday night and had dinner with my father at Texas Land and Cattle. My usual now consists of the spicy Caesar salad with no croutons and the Chipotle Tuna with garlic mashed potatoes. That meal is hottish, okay? Eat it. Hottish is my new word. Use it. After dinner, I struggled to find the will to go to Number’s Nightclub and I nearly made it. The problem was that my Eclipse wouldn’t start. Pfft.

The next morning I went to my secret storage facility and traded up the Mitsubishi Eclipse for the DeLorean DMC-12 and got to work on buying a new set of tires. NTW didn’t have any Goodyear brand tires that fit the D. Instead, I opted for the similar named BF Goodrich tires. The white wall lettering of the text on the tire is very similar to the Goodyear lettering. As long as the word Good is visible then I’m down with the substitution. I had the NTW boys carefully remove my old tires which I picked up on Sunday. FYI, there’s nothing physically wrong with these tires. As I mentioned in an earlier blog entry, I’d prefer to have tires that were manufactured in the last 10 years when I’m driving great distances. I’m thinking that I was going to sell the old tires to one of my Back to the Future brothers. The sales guy talked me into getting an alignment. This lasted for all of ten minutes after I drove away. The car quickly went back to pulling ever so slightly to the right. I guess that’s normal. I’d prefer to drift to the right and into a ditch instead of drifting to the left and hitting an oncoming car and totally dying. Good to know. They never tell you this stuff, do they?

I got more serious about working on the time machine when Sunday rolled around. I spread out all of my movie car replica pieces across the kitchen table and any available surface area. This made me realize that I have a lot of untested time circuit equipment. I read up on how a 12-volt car battery works and was quite pleased to learn that DC current is safe and easy to handle. This gave me the balls to take my external battery jump box and use the battery clamps to hook directly to the positive and negative wires of my equipment. Don’t let them touch, though. As in the word of Ghostbusters