Sixty five dollars a day... not something that an out-of-work substitute teacher can afford regularly.

"I... suppose I can afford one day here, to investigate. If time is frozen out there, I'm at least going to want to get my biorhythms in order so I don't start getting tired early."

He pulls a debit card from his wallet. "Do you have... a card reader, or something, or do you just... magically scan it?"