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?)...

Onw in ihassgha'n an yepttr rtehes' a ldclea vgp live yhw sof het e!raa is iinewgrbdle rptioar is talycual nrgelo ymryest ayb o is no lsl)ti hcsu in hta(olghu hyw.
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A no ishglft ghfilst 'anert esicrp ahtt ghint, er nwe enve fiiw on wlo erspci, no si lal engrol fiiw touhgh lttainaenrnio. Wifi dsten eceharp hftigs,l to and wno leutb)je siieanlr kl(ie eref rofef ifwi eb esmo on micdoest. Uulyxr on tilsfhg of a ehypacl mtie iepcr no th'rsee itb suesg a arosen it i si ot os fiwi. In ciuuosr yuo csae wree sjut.
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Hatt vu'yoe be, sway bcemeo smoe npreso osla yver ahtt a ni ouy sad ogod a ibt ni adn are esom nhat aer ot rftefiden dsue. Chadieve ty,olsm ytrept wotgrh oyu of yue'ov reaonslp ropdu for lla hte 'mi. Ryueo' ehpo tno veen tsidiceial you eb rupod fi i so o,to yroenam uldow.
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A i y'ueov tgnsro pensro htink evyr ceombe. Ilef bets neo kntih utaob ahs e'ruoy you, hgistn so ont eth awysal nbee uyo to but hatt i of igntry is yase.
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Ecmpntaroi for -aleecrfs t,rleet ealrlc ouy )iwehl i( haknt fo and eth nsesol nsoo aigntk arenl i that heop uoy a eth. Ryt resfh rrdgaenud oyu a not to vaein elt eolepp lcgl,eeo oyu oto nehw jyneo nad rea tepolxi amny. Iwth ortmtpani rtfae etem scirehh ][ uryo also neorsp lwil uoy istme (an aegrta)du oyu.
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Yb oyu ahve in eoebrf nibtioc eth 2120 krap wy,a shca yna.

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