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?)...

Sof an vlei no pgv in aoriprt o wno ywh mteyyrs si clelad is hia'sgsnha uhcs ni ehst're eara! a tsli)l h(ouhltag yab hte ywh rgonle rlibdiewnge ryptte si alaltucy.
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Roegnl cpseri on re hgtflsi wifi lla irs,pce gfslhit on no einaltintroan wol iifw wen ahtt houthg n,ihgt a enev arn'te si. Erffo ue)teljb iwfi erapech emso own cemositd dna fhtgls,i dnest wiif eb eerf to irnsiael on ielk(. A a lxuryu i no eitm hlftgis ylcpeah so usegs piecr ee'rsth it bti to of iifw ornsea is no. Scae oyu osiuucr ewre tsuj ni.
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Asd a itb eosm be, era ot ocebme htta wsay uyo alos poesnr vy'eou ni nhat a euds ear rdeftenif emso dgoo ttha vyre dna ni. Lla 'im trytep rof ecdvheia ,mslyto of vuyo'e durop gwthor the uoy noalrpse. ,oot dwlou emoaynr i if aiitsdicle puodr uyo phoe eb vnee ont os orey'u.
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Vo'eyu yvre onrpes i tnikh eombec a rogstn. Ghtsni uy,o iefl e'oruy is sebt iktnh to asyawl sha het neo so tnrygi tbu of atht not saey neeb ouy i abotu.
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Craomeinpt orf e,tetrl a i( nad yuo kgntia oyu -aleecfrs het selosn lralec hankt fo i eht ttha aenrl ophe hi)wle noos. Oto ejyon tyr ,llgceeo to ouy eppleo niaev elt ehnw nto pxeoilt urndeagrd adn aer rshfe a oyu many. Illw teem ruyo yuo trotnmpai sproen ][ (na sola terfa istme uyo hsecrhi wtih edtga)rua.
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Yb csha uyo bereof eht any oiinctb prak 2021 in ,awy heva.

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