About an hour ago, I found myself craving candy.

Not expecting much, I wandered over to the OnMilwaukee.com kitchenette, and not surprisingly, I didn't find any candy. Instead I settled for a cough drop and sat back down at my desk.

So I sent an instant message across the office to my coworker Julie Lawrence. "I wish we had an OnMilwaukee.com candy bucket," I wrote. Julie agreed.

Then, just a few minutes later, like magic, someone knocked on our door and dropped off a bucket of candy. I'm not kidding.

It came from Ad 2 Milwaukee, a young professionals networking group. Julie walked out to the kitchenette and said, "Was that candy bucket was sitting there when you AIMed me?"

"It wasn't," I insisted.

"You just wished for a candy bucket and it magically appeared," she said. "Wow."

And she was right. Free candy. On demand.

Maybe I should wish for a few more things today, too.