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Carel Two-Eagle — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:37:03 -0500

Just because a person's blog is well-read doesn't mean the blogger is not humble. Similarly, it doesn't mean s/he is a phony, doesn't care about any opinion other than hers/his, or any other never-did-fit-all blanket statement. As for MicroSoft going after the kid who registered as MikeRoweSoft.. that's a company thing, not a Scoble / blogger thing.. The company's heads need to take a breath of fresh air & come into a better reality. There's little more off-putting than pompousity, from a company or a person. Or maybe that's common old-fashioned bullying.

Why We Beat Our Heads on Walls

Carel Two-Eagle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:03:47 -0400

I've made so many job applications since March 7 I finally started listing "job applicant" as my current job. I've heard the dumbest collection of excuses for not hiring me, & I get no unemployment & I don't want welfare! Excuses include: you know too much; you have too much experience; you were in business, we can't hire you; you have a limp. Lessee - the Army advertises "be all you can be". Hm. Must be just a slogan, not real encouragement.. After over 30 years of work, I should have lots of experience! I do - at a high level, too. I've never been a slacker.

Sometimes Old Stuff is Best

Carel Two-Eagle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:40:23 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi / hello my relatives. Long time no hear. I've been so far behind the 8-ball, I had to take it on faith that it was still out there ahead of me. "Making a living" has been incredibly tough this year & last. Try a gross in of maybe $9000. It's enough to make a person think of welfare!

Sometimes Old Stuff is Best

Carel Two-Eagle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:38:58 -0400

They Won't Let Me Retire to a Job

Carel Two-Eagle — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:18:46 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi / Hello my relatives. It's been a long time since my last post. Last winter was brutal up here - I literally spent the entire winter doing nothing but going to a temp job & home to eat & sleep, battling snow like we haven't had in over 10 years "both ways against the wind". And where I camp, it can be uphill both ways, too. This was "life" for most of the people I know here, too. We literally didn't stop being dog-tired until roughly this August!

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Carel Two-Eagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:04:10 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi/ Hello my relatives. Inertia being the way of everything, & people being as "inertial" as anything else in the universe, the urge to consume to excess that is a hallmark of the majority culture is going to be very difficult to rein in. Carbon credits says to me that if cities / states can trade their CCs, the only thing that is 'really' happening is that places with phenomenal amounts of pollution will still have that, but it will 'appear' that things have improved because they bought CCs from places that don't have as much pollution.

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Carel Two-Eagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:49:36 -0400

Hanh mitakuyapi/Hello my relatives. How refreshing that after maintaining for over 20 years that this is the only way to go that is viable, the rest of the business world has caught up. Now my question is, given that I & other ITI, being ITI (Indigenous Turtle Islander), are still definitely among of those who are "resource-constrained" in the money department but definitely "ingenuity rich", as I/we always have been, how do we get the money we need to get our businesses into our markets?

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Carel Two-Eagle — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:43:28 -0400

Phenomenal! Incredible! And it's something I've been building for at least a decade, although I never gave any thought to selling it. I used it to teach my grandkids creative thinking. I think someone owes this Indn grandma some money (which I will use to get my company - Indian Maid Products, Inc. - back in her markets the way she ought to be, instead of struggling the way we've had to). No, I do not say any of this tongue-in-cheek.

Another Stone Turned

Carel Two-Eagle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:03:05 -0500

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives.

As you know, I am not one to leave a stone unturned when it comes to finding ways to build financial independence via micro-businesses for minorities. Particularly, I admit, my own, not that it matters.

Micro-entrepreneurs

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Carel Two-Eagle — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:22:05 -0500

The corporation I started in 2008 has a passive solar heater mainly of my design which we are putting on the market, but some of the supposed business brains here still haven't figured out that solar really is part of the wave of the future, & that the future starts now. I've been told in very patronizing tones by these people that "while our product is a great idea, in practical reality, it just isn't going to be competitive here" & we should drop it.