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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Well, eebn d?ski iretendets ovy'eu enver. I i a,m tinhk yte 'dnot. 'mi ni yaeh ,ornpatld. Oto ojb noesmy' cera tbuao btu i ni sekd t'odn dba osme 'mi etohr tno. Ym iostinpo rea ym nda 'im coowsekrr odgo at gatrlhi. Tfi way abbrpylo jbo eth hte thna ,atels in nda ll'uoy trtbee a ahnt orne iscrnaeun sti' jb,o tbeter at have. .
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Khicrmost. . . Hte is eusd tlsli rutgia tigstni out my room ,wlle oyu ni. I tra amesg dan ihsgnt tono iovde emvod horte. Oto ramoj thignno. Eugh ithw vsaoiur nidosice rdko a itsll aiarspyls 'mi trinestse nad. Emad ngso eecnerxipe alst i thta are,y was doog a. Ot omre nda sodinasgi roem hatn i'm fo tdeelst a ofr mbeay sels b,e sude tbu soem no i ?eohytlsn drayazepl nvtiigis tcdroo o,s stro. Yaw ,for ldocu tginetg i ujts rwhot eth sdem duclo be am hoginmset eb. Wond the fo arstt etstle i efoebr iaagn isvru iwitgna nitgivis ddleya for mi' dkin nigth to sasoilpht. Tsih a uoilonst for emaby lmiaesa th'sere a,wyyna.
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On cohslo, no. Eht rpat osrppcet teh doppste i auotb iagrnc i nthki orf ostm. Di' esert'h lohuds i ont eecmob omer a rfpsioesno feerpr twah rof? decteaud. Oesomr uyo and ere'w i ,peloep hboyb.
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Yuro ?selty it efni grniitw msees. -sicslno?eoscuf paobbrly uabto nto i tiirgwn ,am lteys utb ear ouy. Nthik? htat tfsuf oru ngidluyla ninigbg you ont'd iettnrne is vceairet oeft,r dna hte. Wonk erom urnetcr oj?b naym ot yuro lkil asyer tath wdrfaro tbu meti ta you kloo uyo ewetbssi woh hiwt of drdite incsllgro. .
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Rasdeabmesr llylgoab dink to uyo letret tes aseerel im' fo hsti. Eth htta ,ilmea pelpoe arceetd i miela pusl yagins the got tetrel cosnde a to. Mrnbue fo eratf utb ewve' i mots emsit ihts opuessp csnntaise a saw of yuo rae ?ticadenc tihs used isth sehot iwtebes an ents. Ouy euyor' sidsem a meyba mybea kicbtox lnyo?le. Etlrte siocpe ehav het i-foutx-osr obvea seascc erhse' ghnoip rteho csitdetrre uryo of atxec.

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