Dropping the fourth token into the slot, I slammed the play button, and smacked the familiar ball into play, clicks and buzzes loud around me, my body...lit dimly by the pinball lights. Inevitably the first ball fell between the flippers and into the drain. I stopped and took a step back from the flashing machine, crossed my arms at my waist, and with a mixture of anticipation and disappointment, I pulled my t-shirt over my head, the cool air a relief in the warm room, my nearly bare chest both. The present was characterized by complex machines with gears, levers, and drive belts. In the future, it would be CPUs and stepper motors. That transition period could be very interesting. There were a lot of problems to be solved between now and the future.It wasn’t even all that far off in the future. There were already computer controlled systems in use. The electronic fuel injection was eight years old. The electronic cruise control was spreading. There were large industrial robots in use. They were getting very excited. Tim and Tom both stood up and took their clothes off and sat back down in the easy chairs. Dick's and Harry's eyes nearly popped out of their heads. As he jiggled his hard cock like bait, Tim said, "I've got something for you." I swayed my ass over to him and dropped to my knees, draped my arms over his legs and began sucking his cock. That's all it took. Dick and Harry tore off their clothes. As my head bobbed up and down on Tim's cock, I heard Tom in the. When the brains at the head of the table started to lose patience with me, it was Blackwing, the Green Canary and the Revenant that took up my side and each urged gentle persistence. I think they each at least, were starting to understand on some basic level how my luck seemed to really work. That if I could calculate the odds on something, precisely, that I could then accurately understand the situation and what the facts likely were, but they each mercifully resisted any urge to blurt out the.