To you, from you

Peaceful right?

Trying to get back the girl right now, waiting around in a lonely, white-walled apartment for another 50 days to pass, when I'll visit Reno in May. I'm going to go have pizza and watch Argo in the conference room in an hour with coworkers. How's life? I wish I could get a response from you, to know that it works out, to know how things happen. Are kids in the future? If I'm back with C she'll want children within the next six years, which currently freaks me out. So if that happened, our first kid would be almost two or three by now, right? I wonder if I'll use my list of names for naming a kid. That's jumping ahead a little, though. Did getting back with C even work out? Haha, was memorizing that Pablo Neruda poem worth it or a waste of time? Are you in Reno now? Is she in Portland? Right now I'm worrying about money a little, and how airfare is ridiculous and I'll pay for a lot to go visit every month or two. Maybe you're a rich jetsetter by now and those aren't concerns anymore? Hey, this is sent from eight years ago. Pretty perfect number, right? :D So I wonder, how have you progressed? I'm trying to learn guitar through Rocksmith, I'm kind of succeeding. I mean, you'll know this because you read your journal... How about your internet prospects? Music production? Language learning? "The language?" How about comic creation? Or the creature world thing? I still need glyphs for ghosts, dragons or chaos, and the cosmos... Are you still at your insurance job? Have you gone back to school? Right now I feel pretty stuck and ambivalent, and scared for the future. I'm getting paid alright and don't want to leave, I know that if I stick it out I'll just get paid more but over time but obviously it's not an enjoyable or fulfilling position and there's much more to life than this godawful cubicle. Does my writing seem different than your current style? Anyway, I guess I'll go do something else. I'll be sending this message a few times across the decades, so if you get this, remember to type up a new one so there'll be a message that gets added to every 10 years! Hmm, maybe I'll make it 8, that seems more suited to me. Alright, see you in 2029.

Epilogue

2 days later

My dude, you should stay in Portland. That whole Reno thing is a waste of time. You're afraid of moving on, so your paradox solution is taking a risk to...

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Neeb eendeitrts eervn sd?ik wle,l yeou'v. M,a ety to'dn tikhn i i. In ,npdlrota m'i ayhe. Ksed d'nto job msne'oy oto cear dab horet botua utb i nto 'im semo ni. Era my oodg ailrgth adn coekrwros at sotiinpo my im'. Erbtte dan st'i het blyprbao avhe tif onre naht uniasernc job teterb awy at a tnah jo,b ul'lyo in stal,e hte. .
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No no ohsc,lo. Racngi msto i rapt for i eht eth eodppst uoatb hkint ppstcoer. Eerfrp rmeo deaceudt otn olhdus ssnoerpfio r?of herst'e bmeceo 'di awht a i. Dna uoy bhybo lepe,op esmoor rwe'e i.
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Eesms ?lsyet ouyr it neif wiirtng. Ubato sfoc?ucn-lsieos ystle i iwngtri rea lpoayrbb uyo tbu ton m,a. Tih?nk our ftusf ingginb eintretn the ldiglauyn taht dna ouy notd' iravetec is otefr,. Detdir llik bj?o tbu imte htta eorm wkno oyu ot ewietsbs utcerrn anym how esyar isolnrcgl oolk royu uoy hwit drwaorf ta fo. .
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Lolabgly uoy barsseaemdr i'm fo hist rleaese dnik to leetrt set. L,eiam epeplo tgo lusp htta i melai eth tterle iasnyg a traceed hte ot cnosed. Na ?atndcice uoy nest shti rae fo stmo sude nscantsei ebrumn ebestiw fo i aws opesusp shote 'evew ubt etmsi tihs a efrta hist. Ybame oxitbck a ouy oel?ynl bmaye semdis 'yuoer. Eboav nghiop ttleer rese'h eht ohetr fo pcioes yoru aesscc vhae xt--isfouor sertidcret acetx.

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