Polar Bear Blog - Men and Women - August 20, 2006

Well, I was going to write about the polar bear that came by at 4:04am this morning and firing cracker shells and running around in my skivvies chasing him but there are greater issues at play these days. And of course what could be greater than male/female relationships - the blessing and scourge of the planet all at the same time.

Where did this all come from? Well, first of all, men and women should never ever try to work together. We are different. Our friends, Chad and Nancy, are up here right now and it is a blast. It is also great to meet someone else who is just as much of a disaster as we are and realize that 99% of everyone are disasters as well.

Me and Chad finished the veranda today and it looks awesome. Standing on the second level is vundah-bah-hah-hah-hah (as my ancestors in the Wunderbar commercials would say). Any elevation in the arctic is spectacular, a view of one lake becomes a view of fifteen, eight feet up.
Anyway, things went incredibly well with Chad and myself; men communicate well together and work well together - one becomes the boss but is willing to listen to the other's opinion. In a nutshell, veranda was completed along with a couple glasses of whiskey in about an hour or two. The women were out berry picking, it was all very primal.

However, we had to relocate the satellite internet receiver after completing the veranda. We did that after the women returned and made the mistake of asking for help. Not saying that women are not capable and wonderful people, but we have very different ways of working. Women are verbal and men are physical. That means, while we are doing things, women are talking about the way we should be doing them even if we are doing them that way already that aggrevates men and then women get upset that we are not validating their opinions and then men respond by drinking more and eating charred meat.

So, we ended up having a forty minute debate (and it was extremely civil now that I think of it) of the differences between men and women. All I can say, is that Discovery Channel reality TV should just set up here, they would be entertained.

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