Posted by Ben Cook as Site News
Well, it’s been a long but very fun birthday for me. Unfortunately I had to work (I normally take the day off) but my co-workers all got me a card and some snacks which was nice. The company also has a policy that you get to leave work an hour early on your birthday but I’m so busy I was only able to get out of there 15 minutes ahead of schedule. That was followed by one of my worst dining experiences at Outback Steakhouse but the company was good and the fact that it took more than two hours for the meal wasn’t so bad. Also, my wife has been pampering me to the extreme which I have to admit, I’m enjoying quite a bit. All in all, it’s been a great but very busy day. However, I promised to give away a 125×125 ad block to one of the people that bid on Friday’s Phrase Auction and I’m a man of my word.
So, Nathan Briggs, congratulations!
Nathan only had a 1 in 7 chance of winning but today was apparently his lucky day. Nathan, I’ll be contacting you shortly so start thinking of what you’d like to do with the adspace if you haven’t already.
Thanks again to all who bid and participated and I’ll be releasing the details of the bigger, month long contest hopefully later this week. For now, I need sleep. G’night everyone!
11 Responses
Jamie Harrop
November 7th, 2007 at 3:50 am
1Happy Belated Birthday Ben.
Congratulations Nathan.
Pops
November 7th, 2007 at 7:41 am
2I can vouch for the Outback story. I took me three tries to get a steak that was medium rare and at least warm.
Ruchir
November 7th, 2007 at 7:49 am
3Congrats to the winner. I’m waiting for the contest eagerly. And happy BDay Ben
Derek E
November 7th, 2007 at 9:06 am
4Happy belated B-day. Take the pampering from the wife, you may not get it again.
Tim
November 7th, 2007 at 10:17 am
5@ Derek, some of us don’t get it ever.
Derek E
November 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
6@Tim - I feel your pain, I feel your pain.
Kenneth
November 7th, 2007 at 10:35 am
7@Tim, @Derek - We are from the same planet
Derek E
November 7th, 2007 at 11:07 am
8@Kenneth - We are like 99.9% of all American males, Ben is in the lucky .1% of American males. My wife and I went out with another couple this weekend and we had a conversation similar to this for about 3 hours, needless to say myself and the other guy are all in the same boat, and he knows another guy in the same predicament. I blame womens suffrage…
Ben Cook
November 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am
9Lol easy there fellas, I’m pretty sure I’ll get in trouble if/when my wife reads this
I can see it now…
“But honey, I didn’t say it, THEY did.”
“Yeah but you laughed!”
Tim
November 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
10@ Ben,
I remember you getting in trouble before for laughing at things I said that were allegedly inappropriate.
Nathan Briggs
November 7th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
11Wow! What a great surprise
Happy Birthday Ben, I’ll put my thinking cap on and send you over something real soon.
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