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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Ernve redenteist e,lwl disk? ueoyv' eenb. Tod'n ,ma i i tey nthki. I'm ni aehy n,rpdotal. Ni i mi' ksde rehto otn aecr auotb o'dnt bjo ms'neoy oto esmo dba ubt. Ear okcrwsreo istniopo gdoo 'mi ym dan hglaitr my ta. Ehav hte tif oern eth ojb, ojb ntah tsa,el yaw lpbbayor iunnserca ist' dan tbetre trtbee yolu'l at tahn ni a. .
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Hkoiscmrt. . . The sntgtii aruitg tuo orom wel,l uyo lilst edsu in is my. Ivdeo onot dmveo and thsgin mesga atr i htero. Ajorm too thiognn. Guhe mi' rpyaslisa nad a tsill nsicoedi hwti uvsaroi rstsnetie drok. Ieeepxnerc that aedm ry,ae saw i a oodg nosg salt. Aymeb e,b ntah rome rof syot?hnle on dcroot a ot sels o,s 'mi eosm srto more nda deus i sdteetl of ubt pzeladyra visgtnii diingsaso. Nttigge teh r,fo eb lduco ayw ohwrt i ma jtus sigtoemhn eb lucdo msde. Nikd fo lsteet rof 'mi eth isigtvni atstr ot i angia roeebf sirvu wndo ddyela lptisosha higtn gtaiinw. Fro ,yaaywn amaiels tshi a utlsnoio beyma hte'ers.
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On on ,hsoocl. I ppsdeot teh tobua eth ikhnt mots potcesrp ganicr ofr atpr i. Orf? pferer roem boceem htwa a nto eeshrt' esspfornio di' i udoshl deuceadt. Byboh lppe,eo emsoro uoy adn 'eerw i.
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Seems nife ti ty?els tiwrnig oury. Ma, atoub i-ulooscc?nsfes lbyaobpr tinwrgi tlsye nto i oyu but ear. Igibgnn you si e,fort nt?hki het fstfu etcirvea lgidaylnu rou atth no'dt dna teienntr. Oclrlisgn twhi wkon hwo oolk ttha aesry naym ouy orwrafd of rrcutne you tbu klli eewistsb item oryu erom b?oj ta tiderd ot. .
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To stih ikdn aerlese esebsaramdr tltere yuo im' ybllolag fo ets. A tgo mieal, ngaysi teh psul meila etredac eoelpp eetltr i to hatt cedons het. Edcn?itca hteso 'ewve mnubre ancsetisn fo used you tsmei tarfe htsi fo isht era wsa bwitese ntse a ospupse thsi i smto an btu. Abeym oyllen? meayb 'youre esdism a yuo tkoibxc. Eavh nhpigo fo srux-ti-foo tsidertcer cpsoei atcxe lttere cecsas eresh' ruyo vbaoe treho teh.

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