Just before the official vote was held I stood up and gave a short but very candid stump speech designed to worry or concern my fellow residents about...my unsuitability for wielding supreme power, or at least coax out another semi-willing candidate."Look folks, I only agreed to consider taking this job a few months ago because I was tired of the way that the previous crooks were running things around here. They were petty dictators and common thieves of the worst sort but if the truth be told,. All of us were itching to see big cats, wild elephants and other animals, so decided to go on a short safari and since by now we were somewhat familiar with the place we decided to go on our own without the driver.As it was just a day trip, we took only a picnic basket and satellite phone, which Graham always carried with him to keep in touch with head office back home. We were out in Ethiopian jungle in our jeep searching for animals when it started to drizzle which didn't worry us initially. “Nothing earth-shattering. And you didn’t even notice your daughter’s hair...”He smiled. “Yes, I did. My favorite cut.”“Thanks, Dad,” I said.I guess Haley saw his car pull in, because she hit the pattern, made one touch and go, then taxied in to put the plane away.We walked out to help her push it. She took that as an opportunity to jump up and wrap her legs around him and kiss him. That part, that they can do that in public, is the thing I’m jealous of.“Fresh haircut,” he said.“Yeah. Get to. .. get this, iron bed rails ... newest patent on anything we found was 1999. 33 years from when we left our future."Kitchen chairs scattered on the kitchen floors, tables set with knives, forks and spoons ... coffee cups. Natural gas stoves with teflon pans. Electrical outlets on all the walls ... three prong too. Some special kind of thin television hooked up to a tiny radar dish on the roofs."The whole village looked like it had been deserted in minutes ... maybe even seconds. There were.