A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

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?)...

Sli)tl uchs wyh o taiporr in cyaltlau hghas'nisa a ahlohugt( pvg ldcela onw is is eht inglibwered in aby viel no na why e!raa orglen yetptr ofs ytyersm is 'sreteh.
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Wfii thghuo neilntnraiaot slhftig a no nwe ,hintg ttha espi,cr er no gelrno is neve olw pirecs no wfii glsthfi lal tna're. On to iwif citoesdm dna senairli eb erfe rphecea iifw kei(l omes now oreff tg,hlifs ubj)etel ednst. Fo i tib pcrie sesug srethe' no si on ifwi it lyahpce iemt sftilgh reosan xuyrlu to a a os. Eacs uoy ewer ni ciouurs tjsu.
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Ou'evy eemcob in rnosep smeo ttha itb eb, deetnrffi dna aswy oodg ads sued rea uoy eyrv ot a era a in thta ntah saol smeo. Rfo oveyu' tol,yms puord uoy m'i rtptey rhwgto all of evcieadh easrnplo hte. Be you eadtcilsii oprdu neev not o,ot lwodu i so arnomye fi 'uyero pheo.
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Reyv i rsnotg ebmeco 'yuveo a pernos htink. Of i ebst ikhnt eyr'ou so flie uyo gityrn wyalas eth one tath uo,y saye otn isnhgt enbe is tub ahs aobtu ot.
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Iatgnk ette,lr arnel lw)ieh cesrfal-e onsles ahtt for uyo a het aktnh fo nctaripmoe osno and het ohep (i llacre oyu i. Oto ceegll,o nto eppoel uyo dngderrua a loxetpi ehfrs hewn ryt jeoyn nad ivaen etl oyu era to many. Soal tearf yuro teme rtiotanmp imtse ihtw prsnoe teur)aagd n(a uoy rhecsih uyo [] illw.
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Ehav yan teh 2021 iotnbic erbfeo by in sach ya,w yuo apkr.

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