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 (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, 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. But here’s the kicker, our kids — the millenials— think Gen Z workers have a weak work ethic. My theory is 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. To a point. But now when they’re interviewing a Gen Z’er for a new job they get flustered and go back to what they remember their parents saying. I bet all the generations secretly agree with each other. However, agreeing 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 the next generation buys it even less. They want a work/life balance and who knows, maybe they’ll achieve it. All I can say for sure is that working from home beats the hell out of the alternative.

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