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It looks as though our power shortage of last night has been handled. We have connected the machine to the outpost's external power supply via electron hose. In lay-people's terms, we plugged it in.

Now the only problem is time travel. I appear to be moving much too rapidly through time this morning. It is already nine minutes to nine! I have to hop aboard my two wheels in ten minutes and visit my employer for six hours. Oddly enough, once I arrive at my destination the speed of time will slow down to half its normal rate.

There may be a solution to my time traveling conundrum, however. Relativity! How I perceive time is the key. Have you ever noticed how quickly time seems to move when you aren't doing anything in particular, have no deadlines, are on holiday? As soon as it is necessary to view measurement of time, you see how much has gone by without your notice. Likewise, if you have a deadline, you tend to keep track of all you need to do to complete a task on time, and there often doesn't seem enough time. The strain of constant reference to what time it is relative to the deadline appears to speed up time.

Is time really speeding up though? Do we travel through time or in time? The key must be that time "appears" to be increasing or decreasing speed, relative to our thoughts! So, time travel is possible how? With mind-control!