About a week ago, I found myself chatting with our sales staff about tailgate parties. One of us -- I don't remember who -- suggested we throw an office tailgate party. We quickly checked the Brewers' schedule and saw that today was a day game against the Astros.
We set our plan into motion.
By "plan," I mean that we didn't do anything until this morning. At about 11 a.m., my programmer Zach and I walked over to Whole Foods, picked up real and veggie brats, chips, pickles and charcoal. One of my salespeople, Anders, grabbed a few cases of High Life and Beck's Premier Light on the way back from a meeting, while another, John, conveniently found a portable grill in his trunk.
At about 12:30, we parked our cars strategically in the corner of the lot, fired up the grill and turned on the Brewers pre-game. The charcoal was still getting hot as we listened to Prince Fielder, Mike Cameron and Corey Hart jerk homers out of the yard. Every member of our staff who was in the office joined in, while Zach skillfully worked the grill.
Admittedly, the weather looked ominous when we began this mid-week folly, but the skies remained rain-free during lunch. We ate all our food but didn't drink all our beer -- we still need to work this afternoon.
We just might make this an OnMilwaukee.com tradition.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
