I just finished reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. It was a very interesting book, in which a team of graduate students travel back to thirteenth-century France to rescue their professor. Its plot resembled that of Jurassic Park, and I couldn't put it down.

The author explained the time-travel science through an advanced use of Quantum Physics, in which a wormhole is found in quantum foam which can predictable lead to another point in the multiverse (a collection of multiple universes.) I'm sure that's not possible yet, being purely a work of science fiction, but it has piqued my interest in quantum physics at large. Perhaps I'll go to the library and check out a book on the subject.

Meanwhile, I just bought 6 more months of automobile insurance. I can't help but feel like I'm being cheated somehow. Ideally, I'd like to have enough money sitting in the bank that I could afford to go without insurance--it would be much more cost-effective in the long run, as I wouldn't be paying for paperwork and insurance company overhead. But, what can one do?