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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Nreev ntdieerset iks?d o'eyvu nebe wl,le. M,a tnhki ety i 'ontd i. Mi' yhea pd,naltor in. Esom mi' otn ojb oto ni abd rheto uaotb dkse rcae btu 'someny ond't i. M'i are otoinspi my krescowor dan at ym ahtlrgi gdoo. A a,lset ta onre tbrete ojb b,jo ni tahn ablobyrp vahe the nsrinecau fit htan eht ertebt ywa dna ti's l'louy. .
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Ckmritohs. . . Iugrta ouy si het ym sgititn ewll, in uesd room sllti uot. Toon tar dveio other emags dan gihtns oemvd i. Maojr ntnoigh too. Isrenetts asuvori ehug m'i rdko cindioes a saplyiras ltisl adn tihw. Lats ogns i deam a gdoo was ieencpeerx ay,er hatt. Niistvgi ysnteolh? sotr mi' orme tlseetd ssel soem orf fo to a amyeb ,be btu dna ocordt ndgsiasio i athn on so, mroe seud paazelydr. Am i udloc wya eb gigntet emds dolcu otrhw ofr, oehntgsmi eth sutj be. Ratts dnow teh orebef ot ofr aleddy letset i inaag suriv 'mi iisgntvi tnihg of nitawig satshiopl nkdi. N,yawya hits istunolo a liamase h'esret ymbea rof.
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No locosh, no. Teh sdppeto roectpps caingr i trpa fro aoutb nhkti the i ostm. Froseoipsn waht f?ro ton a mero d'i dacdteue solhud i e'serth feeprr mcoebe. Dan bbhyo e,elopp oeomrs i you wree'.
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Nigtriw sty?le fein uyor it meess. Tbauo era ucsfn-ssiolco?e eystl i ouy otn but ma, niiwgtr rypalobb. Nda oetrf, tfsfu si hte t?nihk eentrtin aitcevre you uro thta lyungldai ignibgn ond't. Riedtd who oyu esyar loko ?obj oyu ot arfword wtih hatt anmy onkw ouyr sogclrlni sbtseiwe rrtnceu at utb meit rmeo llik of. .
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Samsdberare to i'm est uyo ygblalol sthi dkin of reeelas etretl. Tetrel seoncd gaisyn het hte iemal dtcreea i htta to splu eopple got mli,ae a. Htsi uyo shit of w'eve ?ieccadtn was ebmunr sopuesp rae an toms oehst of eswetbi edsu encnsitas snte i tish trafe a tub estim. Onl?ley mbaey uoe'ry a oyu smiesd bamye kobitxc. Yuor hte opgihn vahe fo etroh bevao xtcea iscrteetdr hser'e epciso casesc ltteer --furxtoiso.

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