A few years ago, my friend Trapper introduced me to a pretty cool service called FutureMe. Basically, it allows you to schedule emails to be sent to yourself at a future date. Trapper used this service to send himself emails on his birthday every year, which I thought was a pretty cool idea…so I started doing it myself.
Yesterday, I received the letter I sent to myself one year ago on my 35th birthday. Here it is:
Happy birthday, FutureMatt!
Dear Future Matt,
Happy 36th birthday. I’m writing this to you on your 35th birthday. Carrie is getting ready in the other room, and we are going to go get her drivers license updated and a new Chase card.
Do you remember what it was like when Carrie was super-pregnant? It’s crazy to think that in your time, she is back to non-pregnant mode. Remember having to sleep in separate beds? Yeah, that sucks. You’re lucky you don’t have that anymore.
How are Henry and Joey? They are almost a year old for you, but I haven’t even met them yet. That’s totally weird.
How’s work going? Did Redesign 5 go okay? Did we pick Bing or Google Maps? Is FAST super awesome?
Did Becky and Eric get engaged? What about Meggie and Bryce?
Have a great birthday, Mr. 36-year-old-dude!
written Dec 7th, 2009, sent 1 year into the future, to Dec 7th, 2010
Nothing really that hilarious or insightful…although to update you, we are still in beta on Redesign 5 (we did pick Bing Maps, and FAST is pretty cool), and Becky and Eric did get engaged.
I just composed my future birthday email today…so come back in a year to see what it said…assuming I remember to post it.