By Andy Tarnoff Publisher Published Oct 21, 2008 at 11:46 AM

I'm one of those people who genuinely enjoys his job. I'd better, since I was one of the guys who started the company in 1998.

But today reminded me that we've got something special here. One of our account executives, Erin, worked out a deal with one of our clients, the Lakeside School of Massage, to get an instructor in our office for a round of free massages.

Not surprisingly, pretty much everyone signed up for a 15-minute session from Thom.

Apparently, it's National Message Therapy Awareness Week.  Well, I wasn't aware.  But I am now.

I'm a big fan of massages and consider them a splurge worth saving up for. I always do an hour session -- currently I go to Downtown's Nourish -- so I wasn't expecting all that much from a mini massage in our conference room.

But I just wrapped up, and I can say that Thom's no-nonsense approach pounded out any morning stress that had built up. I took an informal poll of my relaxed co-workers, and they, too, agree: we've got to make this a new 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.