diff --git a/docs/hours.John.json b/docs/hours.John.json
index 2525ead..81fa447 100644
--- a/docs/hours.John.json
+++ b/docs/hours.John.json
@@ -112,5 +112,6 @@
 {"date": "12/24/2015", "hours": 0.3, "description": "Remove Marshmallow - deprecate HARD"},
 {"date": "12/27/2015", "hours": 3.2, "description": "Continue timer v1 work including lots of work on formatters, preliminary post working."},
 {"date": "12/28/2015", "hours": 2.8, "description": "Timer v1 API - CRUD methods implemented, addtional testing."},
-{"date": "01/01/2016", "hours": 2.6, "description": "V1 Timer work - refactor Timer into new RestfulResource class which can serve as the basis of our work going forward"}
+{"date": "01/01/2016", "hours": 2.6, "description": "V1 Timer work - refactor Timer into new RestfulResource class which can serve as the basis of our work going forward"},
+{"date": "01/02/2016", "hours": 1.4, "description": "Fix mongo; work on auth issues for v1 timer fixes #10"}
 ]}
diff --git a/goalboost/blueprints/api/timer_resource.py b/goalboost/blueprints/api/timer_resource.py
index f0ac2ca..1539cc4 100644
--- a/goalboost/blueprints/api/timer_resource.py
+++ b/goalboost/blueprints/api/timer_resource.py
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 from flask import jsonify, request, Response
 import http.client
-from flask import abort
+
+from flask.ext.login import current_user
+
 from goalboost.blueprints.api.restful_resource import RestfulResource
 from goalboost.blueprints.auth.token_auth import httpBasicAuth
 from goalboost.model.timer_models import TimerDAO, TimerFormatter, TimerEntity
 
-
 class TimerResource(RestfulResource):
 
     @httpBasicAuth.login_required
     def get_one(self, id):
-    #    def timer_get_one(timer_id):
         dao = TimerDAO()
         timer = dao.get(id)
         as_dict = TimerFormatter().model_to_dict(timer)
diff --git a/goalboost/blueprints/auth/token_auth.py b/goalboost/blueprints/auth/token_auth.py
index 8843512..bda007b 100644
--- a/goalboost/blueprints/auth/token_auth.py
+++ b/goalboost/blueprints/auth/token_auth.py
@@ -12,13 +12,9 @@ def verify_password(username, password):
     user = User.verify_auth_token(password)
     if not user:
         return False
-
-    # Adding these lines will (correctly -- was tested at one point) mean "current_user" can be used from
-    # contexts that need it, but leaving them off for now as  it is not a good design for a restful API,
-    # which verify_password is designed to support
-    #
-    # user.authenticated = True
-    # login_user(user, remember=True)
-
-    return True
-
+    # The next two lines set the current user correctly for the token case, on a
+    # per-request basis,  Tthe user still needs to re-authenticate with each
+    # request, so the RESTful statelessness is implemented correctly.
+    user.authenticated = True
+    login_user(user, remember=True)
+    return True
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/goalboost/model/timer_models.py b/goalboost/model/timer_models.py
index 067306b..793cedc 100644
--- a/goalboost/model/timer_models.py
+++ b/goalboost/model/timer_models.py
@@ -126,14 +126,49 @@ class LocalTicker():
 TimeDog is a better name.
 '''
 class RemoteTicker(object):
+    startTime = None
+    seconds = 0
+    is_running = False
+
+    def __init__(self, startTime=None):
+        if startTime is None:
+            self.startTime = datetime.utcnow()
+        else:
+            self.startTime = startTime
+
     def start(self):
-        pass
+        self.startTime = datetime.utcnow()
+        self.is_running = True
+
 
     def stop(self):
-        pass
+        self.seconds = self.seconds + self.current_elapsed()
+        self.is_running = False
+
+
+    def current_elapsed(self):
+        # current_elapsed is only diff between lastRestart and now if we're running.
+        # If we're stopped then the total should haved been added to the seconds field
+        # and current_elapsed is 0
+        if not self.is_running:
+            return 0
+        now = datetime.utcnow()
+        then = self.startTime
+        return int((now - then).total_seconds())
+
+    def total_elapsed(self):
+        return self.current_elapsed() + self.seconds
 
     def counter(self):
-        pass
+        return self.fmt_seconds(self.total_elapsed())
+
+    def fmt_seconds(self, seconds):
+        hrs = int(seconds/3600)
+        mins_secs = seconds % 3600
+        mins = int(mins_secs / 60)
+        secs = mins_secs % 60
+        return "{:0>2}:{:0>2}:{:0>2}".format(hrs, mins, secs)
+
 
 class TimerFormatter(ModelFormatter):
     pass
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 3288b52..ad5f3f7 100644
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 from goalboost.model import db
 from goalboost import app
-from goalboost.model.timer_models import TimerEntity
+from goalboost.model.timer_models import TimerEntity, RemoteTicker
 from goalboost.model.legacy_timer_models import LegacyTimer
 
 manager = Manager(app)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def runserver_debug():
 
 @manager.shell
 def make_shell_context():
-    return dict(app=app, db=db, Timer=LegacyTimer, TimerEntity=TimerEntity)
+    return dict(app=app, db=db, Timer=LegacyTimer, TimerEntity=TimerEntity, Timer2=RemoteTicker)
 
 manager.add_command("shell", Shell(make_context=make_shell_context))