Sharing is Caring 06/05/26

Togetherness is a beautiful thing. It can also be a pain in the butt. Especially when one spouse works much harder than the other. My wife is actively involved in a charity (Girl’s Inc), is an executive coach, takes golf lessons, goes to pilates, and has a lot of meetings, zoom and otherwise. I write a comic (actually co-write) a comic strip. And don’t forget the blog (that’s the name of the thing you’re reading right now). Most every day we try to do four New York Times puzzles together: crossword, mini crossword, Wordle and Connections in case you were wondering. And we try to have a show to watch at night—like The Pitt. I’m also a crazy NY sports fan so if I have to wait for my wife’s zoom meeting to end before doing the puzzles, and after the next episode of the Pitt, it means I’m starting my game around 10:30 or 11 pm. Which makes me groggy when I wake up the next day (the gummies may have something to do with that as well, but don’t tell anybody). And you don’t want your comics or blogs to be groggy, now do you? So sometimes I’ll do the puzzles or watch a random episode alone. I’m not above telling a white lie and watching it again and acting like it was the first time, but at any rate, that was the inspiration for our first comic.

As for our depiction of Gen Z (if we have Gen Z readers besides our children, our apologies, but hey, this is a geezer’s opinion of Gen Z so please take it with an entire shaker of salt). We tend to complain about their work ethic (of course it’s a generalization and there are zillions of exceptions to the rule). But I have a theory. It’s that we boomers were so busy working, we missed a lot of our kids’ childhoods. The result is that they grew up and vowed not to be like that. So when they interview for a new job and the first thing they do is ask about the hours, it’s not insolent. It’s actually very healthy. Nonetheless, having two generations agreeing with each other does not make for funny. We actually fell for bs like “You’ll get the satisfaction of knowing you did a good job for the company”. They don’t buy that and most have achieved a much healthier work/life balance. Who’a laughing now?

As they said in Looney Tunes, “Th-th-that’s all folks.We’ll see you next week with two new ones, but for now we are signing off. Gotta achieve that work/life balance thingy,

Andy and John