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10/27/2002 Archived Entry: "Spending money...woo!"

Everything in my current life costs a bucketload of money. I've just bought $2200 worth of airfare, $200 worth of clothes, gas, a game miniature, $30 worth of used CDs, etc. etc. etc.

Wah. I could have cut much of that down considerably. Oh well. While I'm trying this whole 'no attachments, no desires' Zen thing at a moderate level, I'm not going to beat myself up for not doing it perfectly. It's just not worth it worrying about such things. In fact it's kinda detrimental to the principles of Zen.

Andy and I were talking about this. His words: "only with correct action in the now will the now-to-be work out in a correct manner". My words: "In a pure now, you can do things with effects in the future based on the sense of what you are doing in the now is correct". He tends to say things in shorter sentences and with less constructs. I tend to only understand things after I rephrase them verbally.

I've got stuff. Load and loads of it, in my personal opinion. In two weeks or so my stuff will be merged with Jen's stuff and we'll have more stuff than I suspect can comfortably fit in my apartment. We'll find a way, hopefully without removing stuff that would make it harder to live normal lives. Man, my silverware drawer is gonna be full for a while though.

I have a car, that I drove for over an hour today just to buy a $6.95 miniature. During the trip I saw numerous accidents, and listened as some CBC radio host debated The Kyoto Accord. Most of the talk was about how consumers could spend less and drive less and take transit that really sucks. If I had taken transit, it would have taken me nearly 3 hours and cost about the same as driving. I don't think that I honestly hurt the environment much by saving two hours. Environmentalists would likely disagree. Here, have some tofu jerky to snack on during the wait for the bus. Freaks.

I called my mom, since I am paying for her airfare to the wedding and needed her address. I didn't call my dad, even though I really should. He whines, so I have avoided talking to him for a while. Pretty lame excuse, but if I really wanted to talk to a drunk whiny guy, there are 4 cheapass bars within a 5 minute drive.