A Request

Dear FutureMe, By the time I've sent this, I will have forgotten when it's due. I will have set it for a really long time in the future, so chances are this will be completely out of the blue. Just to remind you where you were: You're sat in an office in south Manchester, having spent the latest in a series of embarrassingly tedious afternoons "working" by flicking between BBC News, Digg, The Register and StumbleUpon. This job has become so soulless, that you have been forced to apply elsewhere (incidentally, you're up for your third redundancy so far...godbless offshoring). Interestingly though, you just made a call to your potential future employer and they will be getting back to you in the next few days. Maybe when you read this you will be working there and enjoying it? You're about to leave for the day and go and pick up Clare, who you've missed all day. When you read this she will be your wife and you will have children. As for my request, do you think you could (at some point in the future) figure out a way of doing this in reverse, and sending me some winning lottery numbers back in time, so that I could be rich, and the you reading this will still be rich? See we would both benefit. I must remember to still write this note though, should you send me the numbers, because if I don't, then the numbers wouldn't ever get sent, and then it would all unwind. Lot's of fun dancing around on the fringes of the space-time continuum, no? Anyway, I hope it's all worked out for you (me) in the future. L