markjgsmith

2023/10/30 #

• Completely cut off - I could sense something was in the works. No sooner had I scheduled next weekend's newsletter, and much to the amusement of the locals, my internet connection was cut off. Now when I connect, the Wifi assistant on the phone intercepts the screen, and has some message in Vietnamese. There is a domain displayed that looks ominous: captured.apple.com.

  I have no idea how they knew, but it literally happened about 60 seconds after scheduling the issue, and after sending a test copy to my gmail address. At this point I have no idea how I'll continue doing anything. With no internet it's going to be impossible to finish the static site generator work I was doing to refactor the maim website to display all posts interleaved, and with an everything RSS feed.

  I can still write this note offline, hopefully I'll find a way to sync it to the content repo later. #

• Connection restored - I have no idea what's going on. The locals that were finding things very amusing disapeared, shortly afterwards the internet connection was restored. Hopefully it will last. #

• Swollen gum - The gums right between my two upper front teeth have somehow gotten infected and swollen. Really painful. They just seem to get more swollen. The world is back to it's old mutilating tricks again. I keep telling you, it's always me who gets mutilated.

  Another example. Yesterday I had a strange interaction with a bloke in a wheel chair and the guy who was pushing him around. The wheelchair pusher bloke was being very aggressive and threatening. He was holding a rock in his right hand. He was clearly insinuating that he would throw the rock at me if I didn't do what he wanted.

  Eventually they went on their way, I kept my cool. As they went passed I very very lightly tapped the side of the wheelchair with my knuckle, sort of like you would if you were knocking on a door. This morning that knuckle has a mutilation on it. I have no idea where it came from. I didn't have the mutilation yesterday.

  Interestingly a gap between my two upper front teeth has formed over the past few years. It's quite big now. I have no idea why it's happened, as far as I am aware I haven't drastically changed how I use my mouth day to day. Isn't it odd for this to happen to someone in their 40s? #

• Another you lie day - This happens every now and then, relatively often in fact. Since yesterday lunch time, every single place I've gone to, someone random has walked past and said, or the person I've interacted with, for example in a shop, has added the words 'you lie' to whatever they were saying. This isn't just once or twice. It's happened about 10 times. It's weird. It seems to escallate too. If you don't say anything in protest, then it gets worse, happens more often. But of course if you do protest then you are crazy foreigner. Historically speaking crazy foreigner state sets off what I refer to as 'total destruction of the multiverse' mode. Everything escalates until everything is war, including peace and surrender. That usually is followed by starvation and thirst, but that happens in any case. Damned either way. #