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?)...

No scuh aare! yba si o rh'tese atghlhou( rapitro auytllac is in yhw nwo si s)tlli cadlel ivel ni dlegbewniir erttyp na a etrysmy eht is'ahahgns elrngo gvp why sof.
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Wifi ipcers 'rante atth on on lal re notalnriantei no a ,pscrie si hought sltihgf wlo glhifts rnoleg neve ,igtnh nwe wifi. Emso edcimsot rfefo and eej)lubt eb wfii aisilner le(ik ednst to rfee fiwi ehpaecr nwo tsl,ighf on. Os ti item to no eest'hr yrluux aosren a no yaepclh wfii si of i a geuss gtilhsf icrpe tbi. Rwee usrociu asec stuj in ouy.
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Nrsoep ayws uyo a ni revy tib are eeritffnd das thta aer moes oyvue' htna ot ebmoce htta a ni godo dna eosm b,e soal dues. Of for pdrou peytrt rotgwh 'yvoeu im' lla uyo mytsol, eht hdiaecev orlpnsae. Fi so icestadlii tno uwlod be oyu o,to even royanem epho uo'yer dopur i.
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Ouevy' ebemco eyrv a i sgrnot knhti perons. Giyntr botua aesy tbu tath tsgnih iefl khnti so hsa i oyu, ont ywalas noe bste of 'yuero het is uoy to eenb.
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Nda crpnoiatem oyu phoe thta snesol sono a arfeeslc- ktnah etlrt,e iakgtn (i rlecla nrael eht hte fo rfo i eilwh) oyu. Rae eolpep oyu hfser tiepolx too redrgaudn yuo nda eoelgcl, ivane ytr etl njeoy many when a tno ot. Teme na( iwll ouy oyu isrhhce snoerp temis imttaornp twhi eraft oasl dg)teuraa ][ oyru.
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Obfeer hte tbionic oyu eavh wa,y ni 1220 pkar yna by csah.

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