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9:27 PM, Wednesday, April 16th, 2014:   12 days. A dozen days ago I decided to do this thing...   ...but even more spectacular is the spans of time at each step: Paul decides to sell his car on a Friday, we decide to buy it on a Saturday, THEN decide to do the mod in Huntington Beach on a Sunday, THEN early Monday morning I talk to Bob in Dallas and he convinces me to wire HIM the money for the mod later that DAY... and by Wednesday? I found and BOUGHT a Delorean, wired the money to THAT guy in Memphis and ordered the delivery truck to ship to Bob. Ironically SHIPPING IT took the longest amount of time with him finally getting it the following Tuesday. Whew.   Then after all that insanity? I started building and scheming and praying and dreaming. It has been a whirlwind and today (roof isn't done yet) I can show everyone what I meant by "on the course"...     Man that pic makes it look like the right side is way higher... I assure you it isn't. Odd. Anyway, here's a little making of video...     Fueled by people thinking I can't do something, I used my first a capella song, Thursday. Man, back when I was 16 and my dad (who had the recording studio) understandably said:  "You know, what Bobby McFerrin does isn't easy..." I believe he giggles at that now, but at the time all I wanted to do was prove him wrong. He was impressed with "Thursday." Nearly 10 years later when I described 4tvs to him he had the same doubts but after the first show (I will never forget this in a million years) he jumped behind the tvs after the first set and said "THIS IS GONNA WORK! Maybe not in this town, but this is gonna work!". In fact, that's the wonderful thing about The Journey. I can simply link you to 15 years ago and you can read it as it happened. Man that's crazy.   Of course here we are again. There's so many levels to this Time Machine project but the end goal is what inspires me. I'm not thrilled about going to car shows and selling this thing to corporations, etc. It's what I have to do to make back the money and keep the car. The main goal is getting GolfKon on TV. The network is set-up with the players and rankings, business sponsors and charities and now I believe the themed holes and celebrities will push this over the top. I still can't process what it's gonna be like to have that Time Machine all lit up during the events and framed in the shots. Trying to line up for the pyramid with a flux capacitor fluxing in your face. LOL. It's all overwhelming to think about and as the guy shooting and editing all of this I'm just buzzin'. It turns every shot into a story. It makes it intriguing far beyond what's actually happening with the golf. I really want this "Watchable" by people that never cared about golf. You know, kinda like me? LOL. I'd follow the last days of the Majors when Tiger was a pimp, but it had a lot more to do with watchin' a black kid take over the sport. So when I watch these videos I still try to come from that angle. Ideally I'd like the pyramid to be a Star Wars Theme (maybe the trapezoid is the death star and you're trying to hit it like Luke in Episode 4?) and Hole 9 to be a Leap of Faith from Indiana Jones blocking the view of the hole completely with vines. Keeping of course, the muted colors and earth tones so it doesn't seem like a minigolf course at first glance. It's why I love the design of the Time Machine so much. Stainless Steel, functional... not shiny and pretty. It will strangely seem appropriate on a course built by hand with wood, nails, screws... it all seems to fit. Isn't that weird? It all just fits.   Think about that... I made a deck and decided to put a tiny putting green around it and 2 years later it "fits" that the freaking full-sized DeLorean Time Machine will be part of it. That's so bizarre and so organic. I could never have planned this out... it had to just happen one step at a time.   Still stunned. What's gonna happen next...   Adam