Time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers- or is that just me? I am a 40-year-old computer and communications engineer based in western Washington state. I'm passionate about my work in information technology, and it tends to envelop most of my life. I like to have a good time, but bars and clubs aren't really my big thing. I like museums, wat…