Cold Clocked

Nervous?

Not one bit.

The courage arrived on time along with the stirring.

I was gonna get this done. Time began to slow down as I headed to my destination, a destination that would be determined by time.

Of course, there were a couple of unexpected obstacles.

Unexpected obstacles need to be part of the calculation for anyone in the sevice of sacrificial time.

I learned this valuable lesson in my acid days. As time passes, every choice that is made sacrifices every other choice that could have been made and there is always an infinite number of choices..so choose correctly.

Courage and stirring assured me that I was making the right choice. I decided that I needed the lightest of my equipment. Even the lightest would be more than sufficient to get the job done. The curtain rods, the sheath, would be a cumbersome problem but nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.

I parked the car a distance away.

I climbed the unexpected fences easily. My stirring told me I was closing in on my prey. The distance was shorter than I expected but time was the master not space.

When I had five minurtes to spare, I knew I had arrived.

I unpacked the sheath and placed my equipment upon it.

Ten minutes past noon exactly.

I took aim. I waited two minutes and two seconds according to my sychronized watch, all according to plan.

I set the timer for 10 seconds.

My job was done...all was in the equipment which I had tested and re-tested many time before this moment.

The seconds passed slowly and then......

BAM

It was done.

It would be 88 years until this achievement could be replicated. I knew I wouldn't be alive to see it.

My little camera on my sturdy tripod had captured the reality of 12 minutes, twelve seonds past noon on December 12th, 2012.

I deconstructed my equipment and returned home for lunch.

I was early enough that I didn't need to make any explanations.

I had lunch before I looked at the actual image.

It had to be perfect and it was.

Upon closer examination, I noticed the footprints in the snow. They are fresh. They must have been made only minutes before I arrived.

Look for yourself.

I found out four days later that a man named Donald had crossed the bridge four days earlier. Hikers discovered Donald's frozen corpse deep in the woods up against a tree.

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