No Internet for Two Days

8:01 PM

Well I didn't have Internet for about 36 hours. I think it was around 3 PM on Saturday that the Internet randomly went offline for me. I don't know if my entire neighborhood or area was affected, but I think the entire area was offline. I don't know why there's so many infrastructure problems here in PR, but pretty much every two weeks there's either no electricity, no Internet, or no water, for hours or days. Apparently the week before I arrived, there was no power on the entire Island for a day or two.

So on Saturday, I stayed offline and was just bored. I couldn't go out because the sun the UV rating was too high, so I just did some house chores, exercised a little, but there's a limit to how much of those things I can do. I can get tired. There were a ton of random videos that I have downloaded, so I would just watch those. I couldn't really do much else, but at least there was electricity.

The Internet came back on on Sunday at around noon. I felt so relieved. Now I could get back on social media, I could browse the Internet again, I could search for new videos, talk to ChatGPT again, do other activities that required Internet again.

Back in 2007 or 2008, my parents and I moved to the apartment next door to my old apartment. I'm not sure why we had to move, but it was an improvement because the entire place was clean and felt brand new. I think it was the summer of me either going into 7th grade or going into 8th grade. So after moving, we didn't have Internet for a few days, and I remember coming home from school one day and getting so upset we didn't have Internet, that I kicked this table and knocked down a wine glass that held a plant. I don't think it shattered, or maybe it did, I don't really remember, but all the water went everywhere. This was 2007 or 2008, before social media was a huge thing. I don't even know if I had any kind of phone, let alone a smartphone, and yet I still threw this tantrum.

My life was already extremely dependent on the Internet back then as a middle schooler, and it's even more so now. There's a lot of content that I have saved to my computer, enough content to last a lifetime, but I still get bored. I also have a home library with probably more than 100 physical books, enough to last a lifetime, and I haven't read most of them. I have Junji Ito's complete book collection, all of his works. I have a bunch of programming books, a bunch of self-help books, a bunch of health and diet books, and I have barely read a few pages of any of them. They are just there.

So the Internet came back on yesterday, and I went on Rednote again, and I posted some selfies to "rate my appearance" threads. All of my selfies and other photos got rated a 5 or 6, putting me at average to slightly above average. I think this is good, the average guy gets rated lower than me. It's pretty hard to get a higher than a 5 score, I think people are so rough to grade other people on the Internet. I don't remember what else I did with the Internet.

So I ate a lot of food yesterday, all vegan of course, and yet, miraculously, I lost like a pound this morning. It didn't make any sense. I basically ate throughout the entire day yesterday, indulging on all sorts of foods. In reality I probably only ate around 2500 calories worth of food, because I also ate 3 pounds of vegetables which is only 300 calories, those 3 pounds of vegetables just filled me up so much that I felt like I must've eaten 10,000 calories, no joke. I was basically unable to do anything most of the day yesterday, because of eating so much. I felt like I couldn't even move. I was ashamed to go outside, because I thought I must've gained 5 pounds or something.

This morning when I checked my weight and took my daily photos, I was 1 pound lighter than yesterday. I was so shocked by this because I had eaten so much. I also still appeared light in my photos, I didn't look overweight or anything. Last night when I went to sleep, I felt so depressed thinking I had gained 5 pounds from all this eating, and yet I ended up just losing weight. Today I ate significantly less than yesterday, so I think I should be lighter tomorrow. We'll see.

At around 12 PM today, there was a thunderstorm. One lighting strike hit extremely close, it was so terrifyingly loud that it caused the building and floor to tremble, or at least it felt that way, some of the neighbors shouted some things in surprise. A few minutes later, the power went out in my area. Then around 10 minutes, later, the power came back, but the Internet did not. Pretty much the entire day today, until a few minutes before I started writing this entry, there was no Internet.

I unplugged my router and would just plug it back in to check if the Internet was back every hour or so, and every time the Internet would still be down. Every time until just a few minutes before this entry.

So while the Internet was down, I couldn't work. I had no Internet connection. So I just did some household chores. I ended up doing chores for a few hours, pretty much exhausting myself. Why does it seem like homes can collapse if you stop doing chores? Is this with every home? If I don't sweep for a day, it seems like a bunch of dust comes out of nowhere and covers everything. There's also things randomly falling apart, paint drying and flaking, lots of random issues I really hate and have to attend to. There's a bunch of random things that have fallen apart in my home and it's super annoying.

I've been taking around 10,000 IU of Vitamin D daily ever since I found out I was deficient, which was 3 days ago I think. I asked ChatGPT to do deep research, I pay premium for ChatGPT Plus, on the topic of how long it takes to recover from Vitamin D deficiency. Based on its research, it takes 8-12 weeks of over 5000 IU per day, to get back to normal. So it takes 2-3 months minimum basically megadosing Vitamin D to get back to normal levels, and nearly 50% of the population is deficient in Vitamin D.

Apparently there are amazing benefits to getting normal levels of Vitamin D, from intelligence, to motivation, to appearance, to physical athletic performance, everything apparently improves from going from severely deficient to normal Vitamin D levels. I have asked ChatGPT to do deep research on this, and that's what it confirms. It's weird that I am already in the 99th percentile in every brain training app that I use, and are also above average in a lot of exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, and perfect in basically every health metric, despite being severely deficient in Vitamin D.

According to ChatGPT's research, there are many top athletes who are also severely deficient in Vitamin D, so it's weird how they ever got to top athlete status. I think every thing in my life should improve considerably once my Vitamin D levels are normal again, and I should be able to perform much better than before.

I am considering fasting again. My photos where I go for the "Asian Pretty boy" look, with a fully shaved beard, trying to look as babyish as possible, gets the most points on these "rate me" threads on RedNote. The problem is that I'm not sure if I can pull off this look anymore since I'm in my 30s. Again I've looked at threads where people are posting before / after photos of their 20s and 30s, and even if they had this pretty boy look in their 20s, they no longer have it in their 30s. Maybe it's something that isn't possible to maintain or attain in later age?

Anyway, that was my day today.