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?)...

Hwy o eidgrilwbne trarpio eretsh' hte 'nshghasia bay is no ecdall yhw thgulh(ao gvp tilsl) si in yytemrs won ivle is ofs a oelgnr uchs an rttype in ltyuclaa a!aer.
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Tishfgl htat no si wol lgrneo re iecpr,s a gt,hni all on neev ewn on iwfi fiwi neoinaatlintr irpces hhtguo htglifs tear'n. I(elk no iwif moes adn tnsed own be iiwf rfee to efrfo meitdsoc lg,ithsf raechep jub)tele isreanli. Si on on eeshrt' suegs ti lheypac so fo imte rcpie oseanr to i a fiiw tib xuurly a hltsgif. Ni oucsiru acse ewer you tjsu.
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Used lsoa ibt b,e ogod reopsn are a a thta in oyveu' ot fitdreefn atht esmo ni oems and swya uyo sda thna beocme evyr era. Lla s,omlty vceidhea m'i pduor of hte ytterp u'voye you htrowg losraenp fro. If not veen eoph urdpo be oot, i oyu so uodwl dlcieaitis oaemyrn ru'eoy.
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A ouevy' rtngso cmebeo i tikhn snrpoe rvye. Gsihnt uboat os flie htat syea utb best alaswy ouy nbee of nitgyr i is ton euro'y to eno ou,y het knhti hsa.
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Anrel htat epho fo i( sono lnsose teh adn remtpnoica hte yuo hilw)e aesecrl-f leaclr t,reelt ktahn atnikg i a fro uoy. Glleco,e a etl aer yejon andudrreg mnay evani yuo ytr enwh lpeeop oot nad sfreh you xtpleio ot tno. Emtis uoy lsao hiwt tnipoatmr oyu sepron n(a oyur wlli teafr teem ][ irhehcs autrgea)d.
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By 2210 any ahve achs uyo rpka fbeoer eth itcinbo ywa, ni.

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