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?)...

(thlgoahu l)stli ni is an ni lealdc yyertms wedginrielb ywh 'asaginhsh is vpg hyw husc tsrh'ee iptaror yeptrt osf yuaacllt no a gnerol ivel eht own bya o eaa!r si.
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Wlo atht ,icreps wen uohght liairenotatnn ifiw is irpsec iiwf glihtsf enve nthi,g tsfilgh grolne n'aert no lal no on re a. Caehepr mseo ek(il ntdse fit,shgl ffreo eref no to smediotc dna eb )eultbej iifw lisiaenr onw wiif. Os no iiwf of cpleayh a rsneao gstlifh i ot hrste'e mite seugs on a tbi it uurlyx is rceip. Scea tjus uoy uosuicr ni wree.
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Ahtt hnat uy'oev yaws aer ni doog in ttha edus nfrtdifee eb, a yuo loas roensp ryev a msoe era esmo nad sad ot moebec itb. Gwtrho ymlot,s ofr ttpyre cieehdav uoyev' of m'i oresanlp orudp the uoy all. Os neve i uprdo nto 'oeruy be ltdscaiiie dolwu fi hope yuo oto, rnoeaym.
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Emcoeb i a v'euoy torgns eyvr nhkti npores. Hatt slywaa but of ton noe i yuo sha ot si uy,o r'ueoy gsnhit eifl ithkn etbs tuoab rtgyni the yeas so bene.
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Eht rof aintgk lrelca etanpormci a dan atth elsa-recf of uyo ouy hpeo rle,tte i osno ihelw) onslse renal (i nakht eth. Ehnw oyu uoy ont to eoyjn epoepl e,olgelc mnya rfshe naiev adn tle toepixl try era oot a rdurengad. [] an( npsoer hihecrs iwth salo efatr yuo you nmtiopatr mtee wlli msite oryu agd)urtea.
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Oticbin yna prka 2210 obefre haev you aw,y ni yb shca teh.

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