Occasionally here at Sun, you'll encounter a person that's secretly funny. You know when you are milling around after a meeting, in those few moments when you're deciding whether to slink back to your office, or perhaps wander aimlessly around the halls a bit and randomly annoy your co-workers, you'll utter some random comment to a person you just met, and their reply turns out to be quite hilarios and utterly brilliant, tearing a hole in the mundane. I love those moments. Well, I love laughing, I really do. And I'm easily amused. Which may not be a good thing ... but my daughter enjoys it.

So, yes, lots of funny people here. Its just that you tend not to know it right away, because "Be Funny or Something" isn't on the meeting agenda. Maybe I should do that. Try to spice up those agendas.

So Tim Caynes is one of those people. And his latest post is quite hilarious. And it happens to be at my expense, which is even funnier. I happen to be a member of what he calls "woeful assortment of project managers." I laughed. I will ask him about his vacation though, and I will make it a point to ask about his children. And I will fantasize about poking him in his eye, or slapping him with a fish.

I'm grateful to these people, and I treasure those moments they catch me off guard and make me spit out my coke. Especially on those awful days when I stop and ask no one in particular "Can I have a mulligan please? No? At least a time out then." So thank you.

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Published: (2005-03-29 20:51:04.0)