Entry Penned Beginning
Monday December 2nd 2024 C.E
10:52 GMT+7
Honestly not a lot that I feel like recording at the moment, things are moving along. Not as rapidly as I, or any of us, want but as rapidly as things will allow I think.
We have a projected budget and a good modeling system to build of and a fairly clear path forward that should be locked in this week.
The delays are hard, in part because of the way we are all wired; the neurospicy “But I planned on X, I can’t adjust now” and the “Sorry I have something to do in six hours so I can’t start anything else till then” requires a lot of mental management. For example I sat down at my laptop knowing I have a solid 40 minutes before it is time to go to lunch and do some shopping and my brain was insistent that since I have something to do soon I can’t do anything else.
I am all ready to go, bag packed etc, all I need to do is put on a shirt and shoes yet my brain was insistent that I couldn’t play my game for 30 minutes, or write this journal post.
The delay is impacting in the same way; I have things I want to do here in Thailand, a list of them in fact. Except they weren’t scheduled for this trip, in my head this trip was setup site and move on and so I haven’t been able to get myself out to the old city, or even the Chatuchak weekend market because “I have to go soon” / have already gone in my head and haven’t caught up yet.
Still being able to make progress on the next steps helps, it makes it feel a lot less like I am spinning my wheels, which is what we did a lot of the last few months in the US; hurry up and wait.
Today is also the first time we have paid rent here in Thailand; it was such an easy process. I logged on to my international banking app, Wise, selected the landlords details and hit send. Just for surety I took the screen shot and sent it to the landlord via Line, a local instant message system.
The landlord thanked me, genuinely, with actual genuine gratitude that we paid on time and let him know; which based on my experiences renting in the past is just flat out shocking to me.
I think that perhaps that is something that living in the US caused me to forget, or at least forget the experience of, systems that aren’t inherently antagonistic or designed to be punitive. All of the systems here, from the governmental to the economic are built around ease of use, to make it easy for people to do the things rather than difficult; even with the added layer of difficulty specific for foreigners.
Perhaps I will have more to say later, now that we have ice tonight may be testing of the local whiskey night, you know for science 🙂
-Robert James-Noonan O’Wayreth
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