"So, did you come out to see our new house?" I wanted to see it," Jennifer said. "And, I want you to come and see mine. I just signed the papers on El...er Sorensen's old place." That place with all the acreage, out on Point Drive?" Kirsten asked. "I saw that Binky just cut the price on it." I was going to do it, then I wasn't," Jenny said. "I thought about having Uncle Brent build me a place, but when we got into town, and saw that the price had been lowered, we went out and looked at it, and. Mom simply wrapped her fingers around an imaginary cock and made a few jerking motions.When I was a kid, I loved watching reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore show, where Mary Richards worked at a television station and the station director was gruff but lovable Lou Grant and the anchor was good-looking but stupid Ted Baxter. That, more than anything else, was why I wanted to work in a real TV station. When I got older, I realized it was just another dumbass sitcom, but I still liked the idea of. I had to go out of town for a seminar on new building codes for our state. I would leave Sunday and come back the following Saturday. A week apart was going to be hard to take, but I really had to go. I promised to call her every night and at lunch time if I could. I should have broken my leg or something, anything to have kept me at home. All week I went to classes, and seminars and discussions. I was almost ready to pack it in and become a bus driver or something. Every night I called Alyssa. "I don't see anything." Christine said as her elbow knocked a leverwhile Tina bumped a couple of buttons. Prof. Willis watched as thetime machine vanished and then reappeared. "You all right girls?" Professor asked as he opened it and found itempty. "Guess I better recommend abandoning the project." Meanwhile; decades in the future, the four girls appeared in a spacestation with a confused look on their sculpted plastic faces. "Allright, what happened?" Samantha asked. "Where are we?" Think.