[Chiaki's clearly pleased with his excitement, but her own enthusiasm is always much more tempered.]

It's coming along. I figured this would be the best time to try, since it won't matter if I break everything as long as we're still in a time loop. I'm hoping by the end, I'll have a prototype for a universal conversion adapter that can be used with any crystal-powered device. If you want to help, it'll go faster, probably.