The Injury (Part Three)
The next day, I was met by a van ready to take me to the next stop on my one-legged journey: 8 hours and 3 ferrys away to beautiful Cortes Island off the shores of British Columbia to get to this conference discussing technology and social change or how to use the web to propel social movements (basically a conference for socially minded geeks). My chauffer, GP, was meeting up with some other fellow conference goers at a nearby hotel, our first stop.
Now, I had never met any of these people before and yet I had to rely on them for nearly all of my basic needs. Food, transportation, etc. This was especially hard for me to take as I am the last person to ask for directions, food, or anything really. It's the only ultimately 'male' thing about me...I just won't ask for help when it comes to personal assistance. But sometimes you just have to suck it up and move on. In my case, this sometimes would be lasting for an entire week.
We arrived at the hotel a few minutes later, wondering where the rest of our party would be waiting. We didn't have to wait long. On the corner, a group of four or five guys were clustered around something, intimately gathered and obviously all very interested in one thing...a laptop. That's right, there they were, the social change geeks on the sidewalk with their laptops out and it wasn't even 7 in the morning yet. I was beginning to doubt everything about this conference. Soon we all got into the two cars and began our long caravan commute to Cortes.
Once on the road, the geekiness just got worse. At one ferry stop, these web geeks actually used one laptop from one car to transmit music to the other laptop in the other car. That's right, for fun we created a network between two computers to transmit music from one car to another. For fun. It was at that moment that I knew I was with complete geeks...and I was already beginning to really like them.
The road trip lasted about 8 hours total. The scenery was beautiful, the company and conversation was equally swell, and at one point I totally forgot that I was on crutches. It was a nice break, for I knew that I still had a week on the road before I'd be crutching in the comfort of my own city and my own home.
Now, I had never met any of these people before and yet I had to rely on them for nearly all of my basic needs. Food, transportation, etc. This was especially hard for me to take as I am the last person to ask for directions, food, or anything really. It's the only ultimately 'male' thing about me...I just won't ask for help when it comes to personal assistance. But sometimes you just have to suck it up and move on. In my case, this sometimes would be lasting for an entire week.
We arrived at the hotel a few minutes later, wondering where the rest of our party would be waiting. We didn't have to wait long. On the corner, a group of four or five guys were clustered around something, intimately gathered and obviously all very interested in one thing...a laptop. That's right, there they were, the social change geeks on the sidewalk with their laptops out and it wasn't even 7 in the morning yet. I was beginning to doubt everything about this conference. Soon we all got into the two cars and began our long caravan commute to Cortes.
Once on the road, the geekiness just got worse. At one ferry stop, these web geeks actually used one laptop from one car to transmit music to the other laptop in the other car. That's right, for fun we created a network between two computers to transmit music from one car to another. For fun. It was at that moment that I knew I was with complete geeks...and I was already beginning to really like them.
The road trip lasted about 8 hours total. The scenery was beautiful, the company and conversation was equally swell, and at one point I totally forgot that I was on crutches. It was a nice break, for I knew that I still had a week on the road before I'd be crutching in the comfort of my own city and my own home.
posted by Howard at 10:49 AM
2 Comments:
Dude you just made me laugh SO HARD. I needed that!! :) Hugs.
Anything for you! I miss you already! Hugs back!
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