Showing Articles for: February 2012

Dealing with PayPal, Customs, and Shipping, Revisited

POSTED Sun Feb.26.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Activity Log

So having written the post on “Low Threshold of Inconvenience”, I’m putting some steps into practice. I made this list: entering the bubble don’t take inconvenience personally maintain a neutral, observing, experimental mindset put other thoughts out of my mind commit to 15 minutes to start as troubles and inconveniences pop up, note them down [...]

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Low Threshold of Inconvenience

POSTED Sun Feb.26.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Monologue

As I slowly woke from a deep slumber, I idly ticked through a list of possible things to do. All of them, worthwhile! All of them, just a little too much to get excited about. It’s a long-standing pattern, this, and I’ve at various times ascribed it to: a lack of intrinsic motivation a lack [...]

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Happy Bubble Time III

POSTED Sun Feb.19.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Activity Log

I went to sleep fairly early for me, around 1130PM. I got out of bed 12 hours later, which is a long time to sleep. I actually woke up around 8, but lingered in and out of naps (some kind of extended “Glee” drama was playing out in a dream, though there were cowboys and [...]

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Happy Bubble Time II

POSTED Sat Feb.18.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Activity Log

After writing that last post on my desire to be in a bubble of happiness, I went into the kitchen and really looked at it. It was a mess, and has been a source of constant low-level frustration for years. Since I tend to live in my head, I don’t usually notice things like the [...]

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Happy Bubble Time

POSTED Sat Feb.18.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Assessments

I got back from San Diego a few days ago, and have been spending the time getting reoriented. I was there on business for almost a week, which doesn’t seem like a long time, but that’s long enough to give myself a new perspective on my home. It’s rather messy, for one thing, and not [...]

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San Diego 01

POSTED Wed Feb.08.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Activity Log

I’m in San Diego for business in early February, and it’s quite a difference from the February we are having in New Hampshire. The expectation of year-round sunny weather can be seen everywhere from the design of the buildings to the expressions on people’s faces. I’m staying in a small rental room in what I [...]

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