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Help the disgruntled time traveler complete his diary entry by choosing the correct verb form for each blank.

If I hadn't put all my savings into that "revolutionary" floppy disk company back in the 1990s, I would be relaxing on my own private island right now.

If I hadn't put all my savings into that "revolutionary" floppy disk company back in the 1990s, I would be relaxing on my own private island right now.

This is a mixed conditional where a past action has a present result.

We use the Past Perfect (hadn't put) in the "if" clause to describe an unreal situation in the past (the 1990s).

We use the present conditional (would be) in the main clause because the result is happening "right now."

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