Michael Roebuck's Blog

My birthday was Friday the 25th. As manager of All Web, I usually do not participate in birthday wishes as I'm really bad with remembering dates. Unless I'm told it's a special occasion, I'll forget. Thus, forgetting some people's special days and remembering others. So rather than forget someone's day, I choose to forget everyones.

Anyway, I happened to be at a client site all day on Friday and not in the office. I called in several times throughout the day and all seemed to be running smooth. Apparently, as I find out later, too smooth.

I got back into town about 7pm and on the way home was paged several times that one of the network drives was down. Since it was the beginning of a long weekend, I needed to stop by the office and reset it. Karl also gets paged but he must have worked too hard during the day to come back and reset the drive.

I get to the office and was stunned with what I saw. My first thought was, "How did this happen without Cindy noticing and blowing a complete gasket?" Maybe she did see and is waiting until Tuesday. Just have to wait and see.

After getting over the initial shock, I leave and reset the drives. Good thing too, as our entire network was down. Thanks Karl!!

Anyway, I had plenty of time to ponder, chuckle, laugh out loud and think, "Holy crap they got me good."

Yes, everything is individually wrapped. My mouse, computer, telephone, pen, everything!







I came back to the office on Saturday to show my wife and kids and take pictures. I then unwrapped my desk only so I could be somewhat functional Tuesday morning yet still leave enough items wrapped so other people could see it. A lot of time and effort went into wrapping every individual item in tin foil and I wanted to ensure others saw it as well. I showed pictures to lots of people over the weekend and it did get lots of comments ranging from the fact everyone must have way too much free time and weather or not I got billed for the tin foil.

We have a good group of employees and we all like to have a good time. This just sets a new level to the good times.

Anyway, Thanks for the birthday surprise everyone. I'll admit you got me this time. But what you failed to remember is; I don't get even. I get ahead!

It's On.

Labels: birthday, tinfoil