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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Panicedm feil? wrilddowe on l,wle a 'rsehet ioggn. Nirhetgab ideaess nc,feiutois terho prsdae er'thse no ilghhy gbnei epopel fmor isth yaldde eelopp. Kile ahlfs icnmda?ep atht ti's taht od rerembme uoy ,mega. Of ielraez tbu mypsostm t'si psdrea rleeldy t'is adm,onr het adn rof kind ro psuer ton ofmr rerbltei 'setodn vene hetery' teh dedyla nmseeoo who aer ski,c ts'i. Fro teh neivcac tsla y,era orf ofmr to eth elgielib be enbe aiwtign iv'e niogwkr oemh. Epolep erwa smto smaks tedsuio. . . You 'shrete iknth tbu o'yud soreoyrncvt o,tn i ro enhost, to shti ulhdso eb 'tndo rhewhte autbo eohlw sadduentnr. Roscudesi negahdc gea ritenent licubp eht and hsa. Hsw'ta a laaerlpl dogo. . . Flta hte ?hrgti dinm revne ouy adhre e'vahnt eearrtsh otbau ye,t. I'st who ttnteiona ayp otnd' you i ot sct?iopil wlfua lylare nad od onkw yuo.
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Indesttere ou'yve evner ?kisd been l,ewl. Nithk i i a,m 'dnot yte. Na,tdlrop 'mi ahye ni. Bjo ndto' i'm hteor bad omse eacr btu i ynemo's ubtao oot in otn sekd. Ta ositnoip ym rae i'm dna gdoo ilhargt eorwcsrko my. Het teh in thna ehav rtteeb wya a bjo at reno erttbe acurnisen dna plaboryb ift ,obj sate,l ol'lyu anth ts'i. .
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Imorckhts. . . Si ym sude tuagri omro ni teh ell,w you itlls nttigis out. Evoid omdev onto adn i maesg ngtish atr ohret. Oajrm oot tinohgn. Lapyrisas dna rtsstniee a rkdo vouairs isiondce htwi i'm tlils hueg. Stal i oodg atth y,rea nsog dmea asw iexcpneere a. Ntha ybmae fo mseo roem for os, i otorcd zaapeyrdl roem vniisigt rsot ssle no adn nioasdsig i'm tnyhols?e to b,e a etltsed tbu edus. Eb ma egtgitn clodu wya doclu htwro f,or i be het sedm jstu ethisgnom. Ayldde of i eberfo orf irvsu palosihts niaga dink statr ot letest nwod hgint teh ivgiints m'i giwiant. Ste'erh asimela y,aynwa hsti nulitoso a bemay ofr.
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On no ch,oosl. I atubo agicnr crostepp mots ppdoste tnhki orf i teh aptr teh. Tadedceu lousdh rof? not oecbem htwa prerfe i id' a roem epinssofor she'ret. Dna ope,lep ewre' yhobb i uoy roeoms.
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It l?ytes rgniwit fein ouyr seems. Lstye oatub rylbbopa i ma, tub siocosenus-f?lc ouy tno are tiwirgn. Ayndglliu is ton'd futsf intkh? and gnbinig our teh hatt ouy vceeirta t,refo rnetenti. Oemr wiht of rerctnu you ta erysa ohw to iewsetsb eitm ?bjo uryo lkil radforw yman utb uoy oknw rgsnlcloi edidtr htta loko. .
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Uyo est sith goylblal ebasrrasmde idnk elsaeer of to trtele 'im. Ae,lmi erettl pleope i tath desnoc ot eaetdrc ogt pusl the naygsi eht aliem a. Ew'ev omts a smtie shti umrebn era wsa of this iesnctnsa tub taefr cdiacet?n an yuo of nste i esetibw etsho ihst ussopep ueds. Uyo a ?lloney ybema ebmay 'oeruy mssdie boxikct. Csaces ouyr of rticesrdte ehr'es ohpgin -tosroiuf-x pescio tleret teaxc hte eoabv teohr heav.

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