NDN Soap
Friday night, November 4th, 2005
10:38 pm Tulsa time... 8:39 pm rez time
Yes... I blog on Friday nights. No... I'm not drunk blogging. Yes... I'm that damn techie. Oh yeah... I'm also just feeling that damn lazy too. It's my gift to myself after having another long week of being on travel.
I just got back from Tulsa for those of you who didn't see me there. You know, for the NCAI annual convention...
Some people think it's cool all the traveling I do, but for me the best day is always coming home. I don't know about anyone else, but I can never sleep in hotel rooms. The beds are always too hard, rooms too cold, and the coffee never fails to suck. Not to mention every airport, hotel, and rental car begins to look the same after a while.
There really is no place like the HUD. Where else are you going to find cozy worn out furniture that only matches because of the kool-aid stains? Where else do you get visitors all day long who don't really come to visit, but are only interested in
using the phone, the computer, or grabbing some food and pepsi from the fridge? Where else do you get to have 10 dogs roaming in your yard at any given time, when you actually only own two? Where else you going to find pendleton blankets
hanging in half the windows in the neighborhood cuz curtains were too expensive or got torn down? Yes, people... strange as it sounds... the HUD has it all.
So you might ask yourself why I would ever want to leave.... ha ha, question I ask myself all the time. Well, it has something to do with my enthusiasm for communication technology. You see, I'm not really a geek or anything, but since they pay me to do it I try my best to play the part. Sometimes all I ever want to travel for is that great new pair of sunglasses in the hotel gift shop. You know, the pink ones I always manage to buy. OOOPS... I gave away a trade secret... now you know why council members travel so much. That and all the travel size soaps and shampoos they get to put in their pow wow bags.
Yes, it's all about the soap.... NDN soap that is! Where else but in today's modern age do you get to argue with your own tribal members one day, hop on a plane, go to a conference, meet with a national committee and aruge that day with numerous
different other tribal members over things that non-techies couldn't even dream of? It's a modern age, it's a digital age, and yet we haven't forgotten how to simply "argue." We haven't shed the "drama," despite the lies we tell our hotel mirrors.
We simply pack it up nice and neatly next to all our minature soaps, shampoos, and funky sunglasses and haul it to the next meeting in some far away state--to pull it out at the next Telecom meeting. Funny thing is, we never use the soaps or
shampoos. We will, however, use the funky sunglasses when we fly to the next argument, I mean "meeting." And when its all done and over with, we'll all take pictures with each other smiling for our camera phones showing off our best IHS dental work to make up for all the stuff that really doesn't add up to the price of NDN relations.
Yes... It's good to be a geek or techie or a digital NDN, and I wouldn't trade it for all the shampoos in my pow wow bag! Afterall, techies are people too, you know. We aren't all just 0's and 1's. We do have feelings, some more tender than others.
Besides, I'm not mean; you're just a sissy!
Chips Ahoy!
10:38 pm Tulsa time... 8:39 pm rez time
Yes... I blog on Friday nights. No... I'm not drunk blogging. Yes... I'm that damn techie. Oh yeah... I'm also just feeling that damn lazy too. It's my gift to myself after having another long week of being on travel.
I just got back from Tulsa for those of you who didn't see me there. You know, for the NCAI annual convention...
Some people think it's cool all the traveling I do, but for me the best day is always coming home. I don't know about anyone else, but I can never sleep in hotel rooms. The beds are always too hard, rooms too cold, and the coffee never fails to suck. Not to mention every airport, hotel, and rental car begins to look the same after a while.
There really is no place like the HUD. Where else are you going to find cozy worn out furniture that only matches because of the kool-aid stains? Where else do you get visitors all day long who don't really come to visit, but are only interested in
using the phone, the computer, or grabbing some food and pepsi from the fridge? Where else do you get to have 10 dogs roaming in your yard at any given time, when you actually only own two? Where else you going to find pendleton blankets
hanging in half the windows in the neighborhood cuz curtains were too expensive or got torn down? Yes, people... strange as it sounds... the HUD has it all.
So you might ask yourself why I would ever want to leave.... ha ha, question I ask myself all the time. Well, it has something to do with my enthusiasm for communication technology. You see, I'm not really a geek or anything, but since they pay me to do it I try my best to play the part. Sometimes all I ever want to travel for is that great new pair of sunglasses in the hotel gift shop. You know, the pink ones I always manage to buy. OOOPS... I gave away a trade secret... now you know why council members travel so much. That and all the travel size soaps and shampoos they get to put in their pow wow bags.
Yes, it's all about the soap.... NDN soap that is! Where else but in today's modern age do you get to argue with your own tribal members one day, hop on a plane, go to a conference, meet with a national committee and aruge that day with numerous
different other tribal members over things that non-techies couldn't even dream of? It's a modern age, it's a digital age, and yet we haven't forgotten how to simply "argue." We haven't shed the "drama," despite the lies we tell our hotel mirrors.
We simply pack it up nice and neatly next to all our minature soaps, shampoos, and funky sunglasses and haul it to the next meeting in some far away state--to pull it out at the next Telecom meeting. Funny thing is, we never use the soaps or
shampoos. We will, however, use the funky sunglasses when we fly to the next argument, I mean "meeting." And when its all done and over with, we'll all take pictures with each other smiling for our camera phones showing off our best IHS dental work to make up for all the stuff that really doesn't add up to the price of NDN relations.
Yes... It's good to be a geek or techie or a digital NDN, and I wouldn't trade it for all the shampoos in my pow wow bag! Afterall, techies are people too, you know. We aren't all just 0's and 1's. We do have feelings, some more tender than others.
Besides, I'm not mean; you're just a sissy!
Chips Ahoy!
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