You know, working for the EXG group here at Microsoft - the Xbox guys - is really cool. We have a new product launch in a few days - the Zune player - so we are busy as hell. (Okay, we’re always busy but now we’re just a little bit busier than average.) Anyway, we have a DJ in the cafeteria rockin out, someone said he’s the guy from She Wants Revenge, whoever that is.

On the other hand my Microsoft Exchange Server has been down all day long so I can’t send email. Of course Outlook is too stupid to actually notify me that my outbox was piling up because nothing is going out. Wait, there’s a little-bitty icon in the lower-right that is notifying me that I’m not connected. Yeah, that’s obvious. Like maybe if I had known that from the start I would have walked around the corner and talked to my manager face-to-face instead of waiting for an email response.

But still, we got a DJ.

Addendum # 1 : Hey, they just brought ice-cream and beer to the mix. Still no email though. You think I’d get in trouble for using my Gmail as my work account here?

Addendum #2 : You know what you get after giving a bunch of geeks ice-cream and beer? You get them playing their Arnold Schwarzenegger .wav files at each other. I tossed in some Samuel L. Jacksons and that pretty much brought out the HR police.

Get some gas and a few Christmas presents at the same time. What could be better? Well, not needing to get gas would be nice and you could afford a few more Christmas presents would be better but that’s hardly an option for most of us.