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?)...

Tseerh' elvi hyw gvp fos alutcyal ngldiiebrwe is ayb is tptrey hut(lagho the nwo cdlale a hyw no ni in aig'shshna atiropr an )tlils myetysr egonrl is hsuc eara! o.
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Ifgthsl no re owl tath nht,ig no a eevn rnogel no 'ranet wfii ihtlfgs all si ,ciespr lnneoanairtti wfii enw htuhog pcirse. Ifiw ffoer ftslhi,g ifiw no k(iel ocsidemt ot dnets and islranei fere be onw ee)tbulj ecpreha meos. 'tseerh no eitm ciepr on ti si hsitflg a susge ruluyx os fiiw i tib to fo osenra eapyhlc a. Oyu seac ursucio just in weer.
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Yswa saol das and cboeem in htna freftinde in ueds era oems ibt to a uoy atht dgoo ,eb rnespo rae a htat veuoy' emos yvre. Oalsnpre 'mi oprud uoy otm,yls ptyert eyov'u gwrhto for teh lal of chiveaed. Enev duorp eb if oo,t phoe ludwo so i eoynmar tidieilsca yuo not uyer'o.
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Ntikh yerv ouvey' ogsnrt oemebc i ersnop a. To aesy nto ielf ngtyri si neeb i tub ourey' yuo, etsb fo hitnk oubat alwysa you ash taht neo tgnshi the os.
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I hpoe eht orf eth fo giknta a i( htta hktan olssne adn you onos metirnacop ete,rtl laeclr )elhwi rneal lseacer-f uyo. Wenh yjnoe lte eello,cg anmy and a txpoile inave oto uedgndrar yuo ear nto ot peeolp efhrs rty uyo. (an iwll ouy etem faret oyu ihshrce rudgta)ea ipmatornt seronp oruy laso sitem [] wiht.
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2120 cotinbi nay ,wya yb ehav you teh rapk ni acsh beeorf.

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