Walked for 3 Hours, Watched Sand Land

11:51 PM

I woke up sort of early at around 6 AM. Unlike yesterday, I didn't wake up to a plethora of pings and dings from my phone this morning. I felt kind of motivated, and decided to go to the lineal park in Bayamon today. The park takes 4 hours to walk through the whole thing. There's still some parts on both ends closed off due to maintenance or repair or construction or something, so the accessible parts can be walked in 3 hours right now.

I walked for three hours there this morning, and it was exhausting. What kept me going was a mental trick, that if I would be able to complete this, then Wahl would like me, and this trip to Iceland together would happen. I do have some doubts that it will happen, because she hasn't replied to me all day today, and I'm not sure why. I hope it's not for any negative reasons. I sent her some other messages during my walk today and she still hasn't replied to any. It's fine because this is pretty typical of her, she is very busy, but at the same time, I do have concerns and worries.

I was able to complete my walk and it was tiring and my feet hurt. The sun had come out in full force by the time I finished, which was around 9:30 AM or maybe even 10 AM, I don't really remember. It was already pretty sunny around 6 AM, and it was just much brighter at 10 AM. I really enjoyed today's walk, but I really disliked the sun and its effects on me and my skin. I wore sunscreen and a hat, but I don't think it's sufficient when you're in the sun for that long. I got sunburned at the beach because I was out there for 8 hours. Even though I put on sunscreen, I don't think it helped much. Thankfully sun burn cream exists, which is basically just Aloe Vera, and I used that on my skin.

When I got home, I was exhausted. I ate some overnight oats along with peanut butter powder, and some Juce powder (this dried fruit/vegetable powder I got from Costco), and some Vegan Bran Power powder I got from Amazon, and I just sprinkled these on top of the oatmeal. I ate like three bowls of this throughout the day. I was so tired from walking. I also ate a vegan burrito I made with some mixed vegetables and a Beyond Meat patty. I also made a smoothie with the Mixed Berry bag from Costco. There was a price drop of this to just under $10 each, and it's only around 700 calories for the entire bag. I'd have to eat 3 of these bags if I wanted to maintain my weight. So I think eating bags of this would be great for weight loss, because it's hard to eat a whole bag in the first place.

Then I basically just lied down in bed the rest of the day, because I was too tired to do anything else. I watched the anime Sand Land which is an anime by the late Akira Toriyama. It must've been around 2003 when I read the manga version of Sand Land, just one or two chapters of it in the 2003 Shonen Jump June issue. That was when Shonen Jump was brand new to the States.

I thought it was a weird manga with the highly specialized and skilled Swimmers gang, one of them being able to see extremely far distances accurately (50+ miles), another being able to run at around 180 km or miles per hour (he said his fastest speed is 180, and didn't specify if it were in miles or kilometers per hour), another being extremely large carrying a cannon-like gun, and the leader being extremely muscular. It left somewhat of an impression on me as a kid, thinking adults were this specialized and skilled at something, I think. I don't know. I just read it like one time but I have very vivid memories of it.

Anyway, I liked this story that Akira Toriyama wrote. This legendary artist and storyteller is dead now. He left a lasting legacy on the world with Dragon Ball and his character Goku being regarded as one of the most powerful characters in fiction, and one of the original classic shonen anime, if not the original shonen anime. I grew up with Dragon Ball initially, and then saw Naruto, and later One Piece. The story of One Piece is the most epic, as in the largest story out of all three, with the most characters, places, events, and everything, DBZ has a much more limited character cast and story arcs in comparison. A story arc in One Piece can introduce like 30 new characters, while a story arc in DBZ on average might introduce a handful of new characters.

Still, I'd say I like the story of Naruto the most. It's just my favorite one of the three. Then maybe I like the story of Dragon Ball and DBZ the second most. I just really don't like the story for One Piece all that much. As complicated and as long as it is, I just don't like it that much, and I do know the full story too. I know the full story to all of thees anime. I literally know every arc and every event that happens in all of these stories basically. I'm that widely read and knowledgeable. I know pretty much a good amount about any subject. Any subject.

So yeah, I watched the entire original arc of Sand Land today, which is just 6 episodes long I think. There is a 7th episode released recently, but it's not part of the original story. It's basically a filler arc, with new characters that Akira Toriyama didn't create. Now this guy was a legend. He did a lot of amazing things in his life, but I think he had struggles and was lonely as well, or maybe that's just me projecting. I don't know if he truly lived a meaningful life that he was proud of having lived. I don't know if he had regrets.

It's weird how we basically just take one path in life. He's known for just his stories, nothing else. Did he know how to swim? Did he like sports? Did he like animals enough to not pay for their torture and killing? Probably not, most people put their taste buds over the life of an animal. I wonder if he had a friend group or entourage he hung out with. Was he even a celebrity that was recognized widely enough if he went outdoors? People know his stories and artwork, but probably not him. I wonder what it would be like walking down the street being someone as famous as him.

I messaged Mary again today, just catching her up on some things. I told her the positive impact she's had on my life, how I started to get it more together, and how I started doing my dailies again.. I should've been doing those things while I was in a relationship with her, but she didn't really give me another chance to improve. I still obviously have love for her, as we were together. Meanwhile I do know some guys in real life, who I'm not gonna mention, who get with women and sleep with them once, and break their hearts and never want to talk to them again. I think that behavior is scumbag, douchy behavior. Mary didn't reply back, I'm not sure if she will.

Then of course I did my dailies. Pretty much all of them again, except for brushing and flossing my teeth in the morning, because I was outside walking instead, and I didn't do that when I got back since I ate right after.

I did my 7 chin ups, 7 pull ups, 31 push ups in a row, I did 30 or 31 leg raises (I forgot if I did one extra or not, I usually do, but maybe I didn't). I walked for over 3 hours outside today. I did my brain training exercises. I cleaned the kitchen, I swept the floors, I did all my dailies.

I didn't do much work today, basically didn't do any. I couldn't. Well, I could have. But I was too tired. I instead just watched anime, and took a nap because I wasn't able to do much else.

Anyway, I still need to get so much work done. I might work on that some more tonight, that's my plan anyway. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep soon tonight, because I just recently woke up from a long nap. I'm kind of full of energy right now.