A gray, chilly, drizzly day. Drove out, stopping at the gas station. Hot coffee, talking about T Gilliam with the fellow behind the counter. Dropped my neck sheet in the mail. A quiet and productive day at the office. Should be able to begin testing my re-cast architecture tomorrow. A little consulting with Dv. MB called and we chatted. Worked late, heading home about 9:30.
Stopped at the grocery store, and picked up a few things. Unloaded back home. MB had made the beginnings of a soup out of some old carrots. I wanted to puree it, so into the blender it went. The top almost blew off as I started the motor, and we had a minor soup spillage to deal with. After cleaning that up, we had some bread and cheese. We're both trying to cut down on processed sugar. Took out the garbage. Some guitar, working on a bass-line to Chrysanthemum, based on Shawn's drum line. Not sure I'm happy with the result. Some email.
Annoyance of the day: my ebay listing was posted twice, due to an error in their software. And I'm being charged twice. And their tech support is saying that they won't refund my money.
But, I wrote the following to a friend today:
So, you see, in reality there is no ultimate context to decide if a complaint is valid or not valid.
There is something positive to be gained from developing the ability to see the complaint as your own creation, rather than something that exists as external, objectively true, and self existent.
Once you see that, it gives you the ability to let go of the complaint. Often, this is all that is required to be happy in a situation where before all you could feel was annoyed.
There are difficult circumstances, but the annoyance comes from within, and is never valid, justified, or even worth justifying. It's just misery.
So, I will take my own medicine.
2 comments:
If ebay is charging your credit card for their fee, you should simply talk to the credit card company about it. They will likely take your side.
They relented to the force of reason...
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