"If I've got the beginnings of a plan now, it's more than I usually have," Ray murmurs. Then he nods. "Speaking of relax... I came out here to try my hand at a little target practice. I wasn't able to get hold of Tim, so I was thinking of asking the bar for one of those setups skeet-shooters use. Nobody's going to be upset if I fry a couple of clay pigeons, right?"

He blinks. "Well, that's about par for the course. Six months in the animated continuum was three or four days here, according to Bart."