He explained what the people in the pictures were doing and why, and then we would jack off together. He showed me where he hid them so I could go in ...is room whenever I wanted." What's jack off?" Silly thing, jacking off is masturbating. You know, touching yourself down there and having sex with yourself. Like you were doing. So, how long have you been jacking off? I jack off all the time, almost every day, so it's okay, I won't tell anybody that you do it."I thought about jumping off the bed. Alan handled the class like a master juggler, seeming to knowby instinct which students would act up when. They got to theaccelerator, and met their guide, who turned out to be a woman namedLorraine Locker."Come this way. You'll be able to be actually inside the accelerator. Ofcourse, it's not on at the moment, but you'll be able to travel the verypath the particles will when the machine is on."The class actually seemed kind of impressed by this, and we made our wayinside.Things went to hell. Tina had developed a process to convert methane into a usable fuel. It could be used for engines that currently burned gasoline and she had almost completed the diesel version.I lamented the lost income from the oil stock we planned to purchase in 1974 and she smiled "actually I had planned to wait a long time. If we start this too soon the impact of the hydrogen cell won't be as huge. I came up with this almost as an afterthought to help phase out the things that were still in use and burning. Galina had been here a week and kept asking to spend time with me. It was Saturday night and I took her to dinner. We went back to my place, at her request, and had some vodka. After a couple of shots, she popped the unexpected question in the title of this story.“Galina,” I said carefully, “I didn’t bring you here for sex but just as an act of international kindness.”She smiled and replied, “But I have no boyfriend here. How am I supposed to take care of my female needs? Do you not think I am.