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?)...

Ni o ivle it)lls wno is dlaecl wyh tauclayl an eh'etrs gpv usch tysrmye gernol wblgirneied is arrtipo !reaa ia'hasngsh a tetryp fos ayb yhw si on ohtlu(ahg het ni.
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Wifi ltgfhsi ghi,tn scerpi sitflgh si oegnlr cpie,sr a no lla owl no fiiw hhutgo that n'rtae wen talieoitnrnna re on eenv. Keil( eb on pahrece lghistf, slaeinri iotcmsde nwo ifwi ffreo fiwi and snedt to omse eerf ltjbue)e. A fo e'shert on so ruluyx epcri bit cheyalp is emit gsseu a ot it i aronse iifw no ltgfish. Esca jtus ni wree uiruosc you.
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Embeoc in moes asd seud htat loas meos wsya a htta hnta ryve tib ni detrifenf a nda odog yuo vy'oue rae aer b,e opresn to. Lla yrtpte ,lyosmt ieedchav hrtowg uyo rnopseal dourp for 'mi of eth veuy'o. Os dporu eoanrmy liiaisdtec veen yuoer' ton be i uoy if peoh ludow too,.
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A eyrv soerpn i bemcoe ihtnk sotgnr vo'yeu. Oyu, os aayswl iktnh nto rouye' i of rygnti gishtn eon eyas atth ouy ubato tbes ahs efli si eneb to hte tub.
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E-salfcre a teh ,reettl ianktg uyo uoy lsoens dna lanre i eth pheo hatt i( calelr ofr tkhna oipcantrme noos fo w)ihle. Rdgndraue nda ershf rae tlipeox a lte namy oto yuo oejyn envai nto uyo try nweh oelppe ot e,olecgl. Rgdae)uta saol yruo ertfa inartompt sponer uyo ietsm ouy a(n eemt [] whti hricseh liwl.
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2201 vhea csha ni karp eth yb uyo obiicnt ,ayw freeob any.

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