I "won" a whole sunny Sunday:
Google's User Helpdesk (if this is still the right word) doesn't work on Sunday.
Hahaha: so not only Germany has a problem with "Generation Z", whom most older people insinuate that they will only work on four days a week - (they told us so), because that is better for their work-life-balance (but with the same full payment as before). If it weren't so dreadful and sad we would recommend a look at the VW - people who want to work but might lose their jobs, horrible.
Google wants a work-life-balance too!
Totally energised I had decided to resolve the "no-photos-on-my-blog"-problem - today - but: see above.
So I'll take a long walk, and wish you a beautiful day too!
Work-life balance? I remember discussing that when the children still lived in the family home.
ReplyDeletePost-retirement, it doesn't mean as much.
My dear Britta,
ReplyDeleteI hope you are having a good weekend. Many sincerest thanks for your kind and generous words on my blog. I'm very sorry to read about the problems with Google you are encountering. I notice that posting on blogspot has become very clumsy, tiresome and wearisome. As much as I do love to illustrate my blog with images (like a journal or a scrapbook where image and text co-exist as one, supporting and reinforcing one another), I dread the time when I have to upload and edit the images and text because the template is very unforgiving and inflexible.
However, every time I say to myself that I won't do it again, something moves through me and I have to do it for a creative outlet. I often think of it as writing a letter to my best friend who has the patience of a saint. I hope that you may also be able to see it as writing a letter as and when time permits (with or without images).
We shall always be here and waiting for your sweet words which always warm my heart. But I absolutely understand that your dance cards are always full these days. I believe that you are a giving person and you give all who need. It is important to learning to preserve your energy so that we can contribute to the world even if it is a very small and quiet part is reasonable and practical adjustment. I just imagine how much more will we appreciate you when you can post a paragraph or a line like an unexpected, surprised gift...I count it as a gift through a creative work, whether on the screen or in the pages of a book or on the canvas.
You cannot imagine how much I appreciate your friendship which always touches me (such a generous and kind soul you are) and you give me back tenfold whatever I am able to give to you - flaws and all! Thank you with all my heart for your responses to my meagre efforts and they truly mean the world to me as they feed my soul.
After we have been writing here for awhile, we have found ourselves in a community. It has been rewarding, however difficult or exasperating with technology, for meeting a kind and erudite person like you. The road ahead in service of beauty, and a peaceful future is less lonely if we travel with a companion/a kindred-spirit like you.
With warmest wishes, ASD
Work-life balance for me meant deciding at 2 in the morning that the other emails would have to wait, and trying not to spend too long catching up at weekends. I suppose these days people have to look after their mental health.
ReplyDeleteWork life balance is something a lot of us in demanding jobs had to postpone to some misty future! It's not great, props to people who go for a balance.
ReplyDeleteA lovely day to you. In your beautiful surroundings it should not be difficult.
ReplyDeleteI had to post a list on my wall of Gen's Alpha, Z, Millennials, X, etal, just to keep track of perceived idiosyncrasies. I've concluded their turns will come and it will be what they perceive is the best way to make a living.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you back Britta - I realise that I have just written about work-life balance too, but if you can get away with it then lucky them. My husband's work life balance was work, work, work, and more work. Mine was also work, work, work, and more work because he was invariably away for weeks on end often in very remote corners of the world - which also are no longer remote!
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