Just popping in to let you know I've been reading and enjoying this. And you totally made me laugh with:
Eddie groaned with what could have passed as sympathy. "Wanna come and veg out at the campus with me?" he said. "Five new Amiga 1000s arrived last week. They have *256* kilobytes of RAM. That'll totally take your mind off any woman."
"Wicked," Barry said, trying to sound appropriately impressed.
I
so remember those days! My first programming job was on an IBM PC with 128K RAM and a
30 Mb hard drive! I thought I could do anything with it. Very nice touch.
I just wonder if young Lois is going to poke around and learn something about Robert James' wife that will compromise her current situation. And the lead poisoning angle makes me think that Tempus is actually her boss at the hotel. Of course, that might very well be what you want us to think. So now I've got to figure out what you don't want us to think, because that's probably the real Tempus.
Or not. You're good at misdirection.
Excellent story, fun read. I can't wait to see how the three of them thwart the villain this time.
And Paul stinks! Boo Paul!
