I do not try to hide that I mostly try to work together with other experts. Working with someone on a similar skill level has somewhat relieving. And finally when you have taken the first two or three challenges together, working with them often turns out into some pleasure.

All the info and little hints you need and require for a successful and winning work and result are there! Given instantly without the need to ask  and communication in general is reducing to a necessary minimum.

My personal indicator for reaching such a level is the moment when you start to carry on second more personal conversation besides. Over all stress work is coming with, the easy chatting besides helps to deal with stress and timelines … at least for me it does!

Now since a while the audience you met when overtaking new projects has changed dramatically. Folks you know from earlier and value for their thoughtful cooperation once, today are often lost within specialities or suffering like you under a big workload not being able to help anymore.

So there more and more a new generation is coming to act. New "green" folks and so called Application Owner mostly not having any background about the underlaying system and techniques and often only being trained within their application, it’s business requirement and the general dealing and working with it

As a result out of that I often get a requests in a way … Can you do that and that for me please? Best at night when I’m at home!

Grrrr … I really hate these mindless emails! What do they think? … Nothing I guess?!

But the more I hate that their emails mostly even miss all necessary details like server, account and login details and so on.
Or best! Sometimes and even better appear like a new written bible containing 20 or so forwarded email by people which does not really more have to say …. forcing to to read through all just to figure out about you still NEED to know.

Oh damned! Give my back my loved professionals I really enjoy working with please!

Lately I felt somewhat exhausted with a million of things going on actually and I used this weekend for relaxing, by sleeping nearly endless and taking things easy.

Sure, as you might guess feeling exhausted was not forced by too much physical work. In a difference, it was mental work like planning things and solving technical issues all against some deadlines making me feeling tired recently.

Processing a lot of different stuff lately, I one more time was able to see how different people can cope with stress and problems. Some really can’t! Then closing down their mind and often just basically refuse to go on further. Others go on very well with stress, but do need some hand guiding them through all.

Looking at myself, I’m aware that since earliest childhood I’m able to force myself staying cool when needed. Then going on processing things further on just seen by facts and emotion free considerations and often working best especially under pressure.

Honestly this seems to be nothing special for me and personally just I see it as just the way I work. But often it turns out in stressful situations , that others start to look at me, awaiting my decision about how to go on with things …. like actually for a lot of work issues.

The point for me is just about not to do too much then …. and therefore this weekend, I decided to do widely …. nothing.

Being on my own today, it was not much of a decision me going on tour enjoying this splendid summer day today out of the house.

The only decision to make was about whether to use the new pushy or my good old Suzi instead. But by knowing about why god has invented the real bikes once, it was not really something I got grey hair about.

Early around lunchtime I left home and straightly heading into the direction of a few of my favorite bike routes around. Being alone and driving that bit quicker it needs to make your blood flowing faster through your body, my mood was raising immense and all the stress and load from the last few days were falling away!

For freeing my head from all, there is really nothing better than driving my bike. And therefore feeling in best mood, I stopped somewhere close to the road for some drink and refreshment. Entering a cafe I saw a some young folks there and two elder ladies sitting together about coffee and cake. Spontaneous I decided for a table next to them as for the only shady spot around and place my order with the waiter.

Funny one of the older ladies getting aware of me, immediately started to complain about bikers, their crazy driving and their loud and smelling motorbikes. Feeling a bit amused about, I started listening to her monologue and half my ice done and sipping my coffee I couldn’t resist anymore …

Sorry Ma’am! I said …. Excuse me for following your conversation! But for puttings things back again into a better light, I might quote for myself and lots of other innocent bikers, that I’m a commited organ donator …. and perhaps some day you or your family might be happy about me driving a motorbike … I hardly could prevent laughing aloud when she blushed and immediately turned quiet.

I’m aware that I’m a rather bad person! But I still smiled a few minutes later leaving the cafe and feeling her grumpy view following me, nearly being able killing some weaker person than me …. ‘THAT’ my friend really made my day today!!

Waaaahhhhhhhh…… I’m a real dinosaur!!

Can you imagine my face this morning when I recognised that I’m listening to the album Greatest Hits of "Sweet" on my iPod for days now? Ummmm! You don’t know Sweet? …. …. gulp

Then perhaps you might start a search for some songs like: Blockbuster, The Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage or Action! And I’m sure you  later on will find about it as worth you made some effort looking for it. For you the songs might be a bit covered with dust though! They are out of a time songs were still made honestly and with heart and not only looking at the charts. Songs which are free of that all technical tweaking stuff we used to "enjoy" today.

So I was really listening to it for 4 days without to recognise! I vaguely remember that I had  switched my iPod into repeat mode on Monday while listening to Ballroom Blitz. It was on my way home and feeling stressed about a lot of things going on actually keeping my brain busy all the time.

And as for you seems not to know about "Sweet" …. I MUST be a dinosaur for sure