To you, from you

Peaceful right?

Trying to get back the girl right now, waiting around in a lonely, white-walled apartment for another 50 days to pass, when I'll visit Reno in May. I'm going to go have pizza and watch Argo in the conference room in an hour with coworkers. How's life? I wish I could get a response from you, to know that it works out, to know how things happen. Are kids in the future? If I'm back with C she'll want children within the next six years, which currently freaks me out. So if that happened, our first kid would be almost two or three by now, right? I wonder if I'll use my list of names for naming a kid. That's jumping ahead a little, though. Did getting back with C even work out? Haha, was memorizing that Pablo Neruda poem worth it or a waste of time? Are you in Reno now? Is she in Portland? Right now I'm worrying about money a little, and how airfare is ridiculous and I'll pay for a lot to go visit every month or two. Maybe you're a rich jetsetter by now and those aren't concerns anymore? Hey, this is sent from eight years ago. Pretty perfect number, right? :D So I wonder, how have you progressed? I'm trying to learn guitar through Rocksmith, I'm kind of succeeding. I mean, you'll know this because you read your journal... How about your internet prospects? Music production? Language learning? "The language?" How about comic creation? Or the creature world thing? I still need glyphs for ghosts, dragons or chaos, and the cosmos... Are you still at your insurance job? Have you gone back to school? Right now I feel pretty stuck and ambivalent, and scared for the future. I'm getting paid alright and don't want to leave, I know that if I stick it out I'll just get paid more but over time but obviously it's not an enjoyable or fulfilling position and there's much more to life than this godawful cubicle. Does my writing seem different than your current style? Anyway, I guess I'll go do something else. I'll be sending this message a few times across the decades, so if you get this, remember to type up a new one so there'll be a message that gets added to every 10 years! Hmm, maybe I'll make it 8, that seems more suited to me. Alright, see you in 2029.

Epilogue

2 days later

My dude, you should stay in Portland. That whole Reno thing is a waste of time. You're afraid of moving on, so your paradox solution is taking a risk to...

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A ew,ll no lwieddorw ngiog ?flie neicmpad eths'er. No oinits,fuce lgiyhh etrs'he htis fmor hnregtabi ploeep rtohe eidessa benig adyled prseda eelopp. Slhaf ebemrrem ekli ttah 'its od ouy ceipdnm?a am,ge that. Bertirel and 'its smomtsyp elddya lrleedy hwo hte eth of or ton espdar aerelzi rfo omeosne erups s'it era ormf sdo'tne 'its idnk utb sk,ic tryee'h neve modar,n. Vei' ,eray eth rof fmor egblieli eb meoh tiawign to ccinvea het astl kigronw orf eebn. Pepole dueitso smkas awre tsmo. . . Holwe be to'dn odlshu i ro ubt touab ot,n stih htesno, ehrwteh h'trees yd'uo htikn scryeovonrt you usddanntre to. Sah ternient puiblc and drsuisoec age het anhedcg. Doog apellral shta'w a. . . Aetvn'h dmni rveen laft ouy y,et ubato rseaerht eth hedar ht?rig. Yuo nad i hwo do wnko lrlyea tnod' waulf ipclisot? 'its yuo apy to ontntteai.
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El,wl yoveu' eenb rntesitede s?dik evren. I i dt'no tye hintk m,a. M'i ptanrld,o ni eayh. Oy'esmn too bjo hoert i dba sked tboua ni otn mi' but cear seom n'dot. Nda aer 'im dogo tispooni reowkcsro ym my grhtlia at. Is't vahe at ni bterte boj, anht tfi a lt,esa nad 'uloly nhta lprabboy het bjo nore rbeett ywa eht incuasner. .
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Khomricts. . . Yuo tou ni uesd iugrat itgstin eht si ym omro tlils lewl,. Viode dvemo rta tnoo heort sgeam gnhsit i dna. Oto oghtnni maroj. Ehgu sternetis sndcioei istll auivros a adn htwi riyalassp mi' dokr. Mdea i ltas eeeenricpx dgoo htta a saw sogn y,aer. Ot ,so mero be, mybae dzreylpaa rfo i omre of sionsigad no 'im iinivsgt oems tub ?otyhsenl usde anth rtso etdslet sels dna a rcodto. Eb o,rf loduc esmd eth hwrto am mesgiotnh cuold way eb tjsu i itgetng. Isuvr eth i ofr idkn thngi m'i ydaedl nwod aiang esettl tsrat of gtwniai febeor ntsivgii to stpsalhio. A fro hist yawyna, maeaisl ntosliuo rhe'est myaeb.
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On o,lhosc no. Hte for i rpta i cagrin cpospter mtso dptospe baotu tnhik the. Resiosnopf ton ermo or?f i preefr 'rteseh dohsul a cboeem id' hwat eceaudtd. Omrose bhyob dan eepplo, re'we i uyo.
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Se?tly oury ti ienf ingtwri esmes. I uyo seytl ear btu ma, witgnri bobralyp -o?scleissnfcou ont taubo. Yuo uro that bgginin is ktin?h yunllidga rteo,f teh tsfuf ieaverct 'ntdo dan eitrtenn. Ysrea ?boj tbu ta urrenct oknw uyo roem uyo fworadr temi ot klli ookl oryu htwi fo wetsesib rnlgsciol teirdd owh yamn ttha. .
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Ot yuo eelttr kidn tsih ealeers im' of emssedbraar glllaybo tse. Aelm,i ynsagi atht puls to het got het i a esodnc ilmea teerlt acredet lpepeo. Of evew' eusd enst a iatdec?cn itsansenc was sith fo tbesiwe bremnu toms rea erfta i an htis metis supeosp siht tbu ouy tehso. Abyem a kxtboic mdseis byema 'yeour nyloe?l uoy. Xots-iuorf- scaesc ruoy fo eht eoavb acxet opscie toerh 'hesre reeirttsdc ahev pghoin trtele.

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