Funny story from the trenches…

Today was a long day at the office.  The Other Josh and I were fighting a particularly aggravating bug, and we’ve entered the portion of the release cycle where people bother you every few hours for status (we’ve taken to vague gestures and grunting to make them go away now).  We finished up that effort around 2pm, so I finished up some administrative work, emails, and other testing and realized that it was right about 4:30.  I had hit a good rational stopping point for the day, and decided it would be nice if I got out of the office on time.

I quickly snatched up my jacket and headed out, slightly giddy at the prospect of leaving on time.  As I burst out the back door of the office to freedom, I ran right into my boss, the marketing manager, and our general manager on their way back in to the office from a coffee break.  They greeted me, and I said something to the effect of “oh, the ONE TIME in two weeks when I try to leave the office on time and I run in to you three!”

We all had a good laugh and they implored me not to think another moment about it and to get out of here.  I’m lucky I work for decent guys.

I spent the rest of the evening having a short nap, eating dinner, and reviewing my buddy’s new CD.  He asked me and a few of my other friends to listen through it and provide him feedback.  It’s a good mix of a variety of different sounds, I’ll be sure to put the link up when its released in case anyone is curious.