Time Travelled — almost 8 years

A letter from August 4th, 2014

Aug 04, 2014 Aug 04, 2022

Epilogue

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

In in ievl why si rlgeiwbdein bay a!ear rngole sete'rh tol(hguah no sof oiarprt na srmtyey won schu ptyter yaltucla lstl)i hwy si vgp a o eth asnisg'ahh is aldelc.
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Olw a re si oaainitertnnl enlgor cri,pse fiwi on fiiw all rispec lsgfthi atth on t,hign ohuthg enve wen a'tnre slfgiht no. Oems ephcear ,glistfh no ot oeffr wno eb nlasieri dsten iiwf ilk(e eref icetdmos nad fiwi etu)lbej. A i to bti esrth'e gseus mite of so on a it crpei on si iifw lfitshg pyahlec ruxylu nsroea. Ouy jtus in uiocsur csae were.
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Ot a taht veyr ouy in slao duse ibt wasy evuy'o ni nda omeecb soem ear pnreos asd smoe are rdneetiff ttha e,b godo a naht. All 'im uev'oy fo vhcaeide you teh grwtoh orf ymlt,os eytrpt eoprsnla rdpou. Ouy iadesiiclt hoep ermoayn if rdpuo os eyo'ur oo,t ton be uwdlo nvee i.
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Trogns bcomee thikn ue'oyv sopren i reyv a. Nhsitg neeb lief ktihn btoau so yu,o ont eays r'euyo but hatt etbs to eon of hte has itgrny swlaya ouy si i.
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Nda the of efsre-lca )lhwie esslon ofr ,tretel rnael uyo a i( ahtnk osno ahtt oaemtpcrni alcrle i uoy nakgit hte heop. Oto hnew e,leogcl a avnei aynm rae and tyr ot uoy eeoplp radergnud nto rhefs ouy ojney etixopl elt. Ensorp uyo n(a titrnopma aredgu)at ihwt ][ imtse teem yuo lilw losa uyor tarfe hshcire.
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By oniibct uoy nya 2120 sach hte ni rbeeof vhae wya, prak.

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