Error Correction

My project has been doing well the last few days. Its a pair of glasses and a simple glove that can alter time/reality. Well that is what I am trying to create. The reactor has been a bit of a pain and keep blowing fuses and capacitors. I have tried to order some super capacitors but the supply chain is riddled with issues. I know I can get a bigger fuse to work if I can just get a better capacitor. As your pouring over your notes in the lab you feel a hand on your shoulder. "What you working on Super Brain?" The voice is Michael, the lead chemist. "Oh nothing, just some interesting glasses that can see light and sound waves. Nothing concrete yet." You say as you pack your notes away. Just in time as the centrifuge next to you lets out a little BUZZ! Hinting that it is done. You go through putting the samples in the correct places, with labels. The blood lab isn't where you expected to be with your engineering degree, but it beats not having a job, or being forced to be an architect for buildings. Degrees are pointless these days it seems. Its nearly five o' clock, time to head home. Maybe some progress can be made tonight. Some new parts arrived, so its super exciting.
The drive home is as expected. A long drive with nothing but your thoughts. Oh well, they seem to be helpful because you might have another solution to the super capacitors. You head inside the house after closing the garage, smelling the fresh smell of dinner. "Mmm, smells divine. What's on the menu chef?" Your words ring out to the teenager cooking at the stove. "The same thing we eat every Tuesday dad. Tacos with freshly chopped veggies." She retorts as you round the corner putting your keys away. "OH, You also got like twenty packages. I put them in your lab downstairs. But you have to eat dinner first young man!" She tells you in a 'matter of fact' tone. "Yes Ma'am!" you call in a militaristic voice. Stacy has always been your rock since Delilah passed. Couldn't ask for a better daughter.
Both of you sit down to eat joking and stuffing your faces as you talk about your days. Of course your day was boring. Its just blood, tests and tubes. Stacy still latches onto every word, asking questions every step of the way. She quite loves everything about your lab at work. She has even chosen her major for college. Hematologists and blood forensics. She plans on following in her mother's footsteps. Becoming a biologist and then a well written geneticist. She has the brain and the drive for it for sure. After a couple of hours and plenty of conversation you both clean up dinner and take the evening to work on your own personal things. She is writing papers already, you're just trying to build a pseudo time machine.
heading down to the large finished basement you start unpacking boxes of gear and equipment. New fuses for the oscilloscope, cables for the multimeter, some beefier capacitors, resistors and several other items. There is one box though that catches your eye. It is beat to hell. Corners are dinged, label is half ripped, almost looks like it was given to a pack of wild dogs and then taped back up. "The hell is this thing, not even sure it's in the box..." Just as you peel back the packaging you notice it. The super capacitors! "Holy Shit! Ok, its time for a redesign.." You crack all the boxes open and get things put away. Opening up your specialized glasses, helmet, and the glove to match. You start to get things put together per your drawings. Its all matching up. They even sent bigger capacitors than you need, so now you have better run time and smoother tests.
After about three hours you have the whole thing sealed back up. You hook everything up and put on the gear. You put the glove out to try and open some sort of portal maybe, something. Just as you start to focus on the portal your mind starts to race. "Thanks to these super capacitors this has been the best test so far!! Wish I could have had them sooner!" You think to yourself. Just as you do a familiar box flies from the space where something is starting to form. its going FAST! it bounces around the room a bit and then lands at your feet. There at your feet is the very same box you got the super capacitors in. For a moment your stunned. Then realization starts to hit. "Did I make a time machine??" You pick it up and its damaged exactly the same way as the other box. But there is no tape on it. "Wait, did I mail myself super capacitors?" You quickly get the tape and tape the box back up with the same color tape. You focus once more on the destination and the object, the portal starts to open once again. You go to toss the box in and just as you do you could swear you saw a gloved hand reach out and grab it.
You have successfully tested this. But what are the limits? You focus on the space once more. You focus on a stack of money. Ten thousand dollars in hundreds. Then just as you get fully focused a perfectly stacked bank banded stack of money drops on the floor. "Huh, so is it a teleporter, a time machine, or something else? Here I thought I had this thing figured out!" Your excitement is impossible to contain. You go back to your notes and start jotting everything down. Every single word that crosses your mind. You then get an idea. "What if I were to undo the writing that I put in the book? Is that possible?" You take position again and focus on the book and the writing. After about five minutes it seems nothing happens. You go back to inspect it and there are more words! "What!?" You read over the notes. They are exactly the same but there is one added line.
"I have even undid my notes in my journal! It was incredible!"
"But I didn't undo them. They are clearly still there." Just when you thought you had the answer, you didn't have it. Clearly you are affecting something...but what. You decide to go get a drink of water to clear your head. On the way you notice that the cats food bowl is empty. The auto feeder must be empty. You open the lid and find its empty but some bits that are lodged. You smack it a few times and nothing. "I really don't want to take this thing apart right now. I will just fill the bowl myself." You fill the bowl as Titus comes running and starts eating. As the cat is eating you get an idea for another test. Grabbing your kit you try and focus on the bowl not having been filled just a few minutes ago. You focus a bit harder and the food disappears. "Hah, so it is some sort of time machine!" Just as these words leave your lips the auto feeder snaps to and drops some food into the bowl. You look inside and notice that not even half of the chunk is missing. You decide to try again. Focusing harder this time to get faster results. The food is gone again. Once again however the auto feeder drops the exact same amount of food.
You stand there and sip your water more thinking about the bowl. You see the water was freshly filled. You fill your cup back up take a drink and set it down. "Ok, lets try to affect something further away in time." You focus again, this time a bit longer. Suddenly the water is gone. "HA! so there are changes I can make!" Just as you say it the cat jumps up and knocks over your cup. "Aw shit, Damien." You pick the cup back up quickly. Luckily only part of the cup spilled. You grab the paper towels and hear the sound of water hitting the cats bowl. You turn around slowly with the roll still in your hand. The water has filling back up as Damien was drinking.
You tested time and time again over the night trying to make things happen and not happen but then the universe correcting itself. Then you start to get the bright idea to see if you can un-invent this device. Surely the universe couldn't correct this change, right? You start jotting note after note clearing your mind and writing as much as you can to make it hard to accomplish. Then after three hours of notes and focus you start to gather the power with the glove. It takes probably 20 minutes of focus and then you notice the glove and everything disappear. Your notebook is gone and for a second you are happy. "I did it! I made something the universe couldn't correct!" You turn back to the little portal. Its still there. "huh, wonder if this is just residual power." The words slip out of your mouth just as a pistol emerges from the portal. BANG!
Stacy is in her room studying for the next exams when she hears a loud BANG! come from the basement. Dad always has something going on so its likely nothing to worry about. "I should go check just in case. He did get a bunch of new parts." She descends the stairs and then to the basement. Her dad peeks up the stairs smiling wearing some sort of glove and glasses. "Everything ok Dad?" she asks curiously. "Yes sweetie, nothing to worry about. Just some gear getting overloaded. Go study for your exams. These are big ones." he says calmly. She comes, hugs him and smiles. "Just be careful you old coot!" Kissing him on the cheek she runs back upstairs.