Too complex

I slept soundly, but not really for long enough, though I can't complain at waking up to clear sky and bright sunshine. I didn't wake up in time to phone the surgery at eight, but relaxed sleeping without being driven by the anxiety of an eight o'clock phone queue deadline may be more beneficial. Clare went out to a physio appointment after breakfast. I recorded Advent Morning Prayer and a Reflection for Wednesday next and was still editing when Clare returned, and was grateful she got busy cooking lunch while I finished the job. I slept in an armchair for a refreshing hour and a quarter after we'd eaten, then walked for an hour and a half until dusk.

I had a phone chat with Owain. I only picked up his call because the phone was vibrating in my pocket, with no ringtone, for no reason I could discern. We started our chat with Owain taking me through a WhatsApp troubleshooting session. Problem sorted now hopefully. Until the next time there's an update.

After supper I made the video slideshow for next week's Morning Prayer and uploaded it to YouTube. The job was made annoyingly difficult by the refusal of the Microsoft cloud based Video maker app to display added images saved in the project. The OneDrive file system synchronisation can be quirky on times, making copies of existing files that aren't needed, consuming file space and making it more difficult to find a file in the mess left behind. I would gladly replace the Microsoft video making app with one that runs on Linux, but there's nothing I can find that isn't more complex and demanding than it needs to be. Oh for elegant simplicity and user friendliness to enhance routine workflow! When I'm offered a plethora of configuration choices in any app, I risk forgetting what I need to use the app for anyway. So many more things seem difficult to get to work or have control of nowadays. Perhaps it's just my advancing age.