The idea was so "fresh" so "out of the box"

The idea was so "fresh" so "out of the box" that the power point presentation exploded. A couple suits threw up. "You mean, just put less chips in the bag?" The CFO nodded

and continued. "My projections show that reducing each bag by 0.5 oz will allow us to pillage that little archipelago in SE Asia where we had the conference last year." The roar of

guilt would relinquish its grasp. It was deafening. I could hardly sleep on the private jet over to the island air strip. But that archipelago WAS blocking my view of the

Earth's core. I instructed my butlers to move the archipelago aside. "And displace this ocean with some buckets, chop chop!" But Earth was shy, so She concealed herself with

epic seismic tremors setting of tsunamis which covered the landmasses temporarily (planet's have strange ways of being shy). "James,this won't do*,I said. "I want the magnetic pole

to reverse now! I can't wait for a thousand years. You know full well that it is the only way to activate our machine." He looked at me fearfully. "But... that would cause

a void on the warranty and besides its due for an oil change." Laughing maniacally, I slapped my assistant upside the head. "Never stop the progress of science! FULL REVERSE!" Time

skipped a beat and everyone throughout the cosmos jumped tracks, which caused some consternation on Arcturus IV and some pile-ups elsewhere, but time reversal never follows

a tidy path, we all knew that. When the reversal ended and two weeks ago was today again, I asked Jasmine to come with me this time. I didn't tell her about the impending doom, I

figured she'd find out for herself when it was her time. And anyway, since the Wheel of Time keeps rolling, we couldn't really die, could we?