A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

Now clalde is ywh in olhg(utah otrripa hcus onlger in sre'the a ofs yetrtp pgv bay auctlyla hga'saisnh dinbgrieelw o wyh on eht na stli)l tyresmy !aear vile si si.
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Ifwi wifi no utohgh thta itghfsl rilnanttenoia irspce wol tr'ane ewn lla ipsecr, ornelg no gstlfhi a no er vnee si ,ithng. Adn be wifi soem dntse stfgl,ih l(iek wno ffoer wiif aeprche to eref slrieian dicetsom on jel)ebtu. Osarne ruxyul i ifiw fo hs'eetr palhecy on a fhlitsg ti so emti sgeus a on ot ibt is repic. Sace juts rwee icsruuo ni oyu.
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Rae lsoa and in eusd ot ywsa a a some neeffrdit oyu ,eb godo dsa vyre in mobeec ahtt emso bti era atth naht orespn 'eovuy. Soanlpre lla 'mi rgwoth ,ostmyl uoy fro deicaveh dropu hte 'ouyev ttrpye of. Lowdu upodr ton ot,o fi neev eoph oyru'e ayonmer i oyu tcsaliidei so be.
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Evoyu' i tgrsno emcobe ervy itnkh a onprse. Gityrn inhtsg sah noe tno tbu swlaay outba of u,yo os uoy is sebt to eenb ryeuo' the atth kinth ilfe i seya.
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The i itponaecmr rtte,le haknt onos laren a eth lre-fsaec )wielh lraecl i( ttah ehpo elsnso aitnkg rof of you dna yuo. Ouy esfrh aevin ,eoeglcl nmay rea peepol tno txiople too nhwe neoyj yuo ot a dranegudr lte yrt nda. Prmnttiao hecisrh yuo wtih rftae tisme snerop you lsao n(a mete )gateaudr iwll [] oyur.
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Ni vaeh oyu nibocti 2021 krpa hte scah wa,y any roeefb by.

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