Halfbrown

This is what I should look like if I was ever made into a Southpark character:

Want to know what it is? I’ll bet you do! And wow is it a good one… if you ask me nicely maybe I’ll tell you… and the secret is seriously a doozy!

It’s a well-known fact that Lady Luck rarely smiles upon me and today was no exception. Or so it seemed.

It’s moving day for my mom and I’m playing the role of the (main) moving man. I’m not into the job for more than an hour or two when I get a call from my CTO. No problem… I’m a manager for the Web Development group so I have a lot of responsibility and gladly help out when I can. Long story short is that there was a problem with a new web app we recently released to some vendors and they need my brain to help fix the problem. I’m a team player, so no big deal. It’s not like I was out of state or anything, so I agree to come in and do it — all the while thinking that I can probably fix it within an hour and get back to moving my mom out from her old place and into the new one. Everyone seems surprised when they see me back at the office(s), but hey… that’s just me. I do what I can, when I can, and if I can.

Three hours later I call my boss and tell him I’m still at work and between the proverbial “rock and a hard place” insofar as wanting to fix the problem but needing to move my mom since it’s her last day in her old apartment and all the help I had lined up for the day has come and gone. At this point my boss offers to see if he an wrangle up some volunteers to help finish my mom’s move so I can concentrate on the problem at hand.

A few hours later my mom has all of her stuff out of her old apartment and into her new one thanks to the the help from several co-workers; plus the problem at work is fixed and happiness ensues across the land. Well; at least it does in our little neck of the woods. This is a perfect example of why I love my job and my co-workers… no matter what the problem is we all pitch in to solve it quickly.