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.