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.
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.
