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Dear Ulysses,
You're right: given your situation it does make sense to use this as a way to get messages to you. Your backchannel works fine, though. I can see how sending is quite different from receiving and puts you less at risk.
The work continues as it always had. Moments of complete boredom punctuated by someone who is interesting for awhile. But it's a lonely job, locked up in the cave. I suppose that you understand this. No, I'm not really considering moving over there, at least not until the happy event has some getting used to time. I know, I know: I'm working below my cognitive level exactly like I tell others not to. But what can I do? Yes, I do hear you. I'm just wondering how it will get paid for.
Yeah, the PowerPoint Church is once again having financial difficulties. The issue is mainly one of living within your means. Although we preach this to parishioners I guess we don't believe we must follow it organizationally.
The actual income isn't off for the size of congregation, given that we have all these kids. When I was counting, I would regularly get 1/3 of attenders on Sunday morning being under 12. We then had some more in high school and university, neither group expected to be earning much in our country. All told, almost half the attenders on any given Sunday would be zero earners and therefore low tithers.
The problem of how to recruit such a class of managers [the new ones who didn't need capital or the ability to haggle but "technic" and play well on executive teams] has, of course, been solved by the development of the business school as part of the American university system. Executive training programs, developed in most cases by the megacorp themselves, supplement the work of the business schools. In some ways, this has been the easiest challenge for the megacrop to meet.
Eichner, Alfred S. 1974 (?). "The Megacorp as a Social Innovation and Business History". In ???.
or,
... if positive affect is derived only from the process of striving ofr the goal, the we are forever on the precipice of being disappointed as we achieve what we have most wanted. Having achieved our goal, we are left with the choice of setting a higher or different standard, or being left with nothingness.
Pervin, L. 1992. "The Rational Mind and the Problem of Volition", ???, 3(3): 163.
Both have a rather interesting twist if you taken Attenburg's ideas (off Ellul's) of technique ruling the modernists.