Feroze is terribly funny. For those of you who aren’t priveledged to have met him, Feroze is the Pakistani-American that owns the small design and manufacturing firm called Precise Circuits where I work. Fortunately his comic nature usually works out to my benefit. Take yesterday morning for example. I crashed at about 2am, expecting once again an early morning of dragging about before rolling into work a few minutes after nine. I set the cell phone as my alarm clock, stuck it in the bathroom so I couldn’t hit snooze, and headed off to bed. Seeing as how I had taken a good 3 hour nap in the afternoon, I should not have been tired. Six hours should have been plenty, and I should have jumped up raring to go at 7:50am when my alarm went off. Apparently this was not the case.

I awoke in a fury, you know, that panicy feeling you get when you have to be somewhere and you don’t wake up to an alarm clock. First thing I noticed was this cell phone laying beside me. This is odd, I thought to myself, I know I stuck this thing in the bathroom last night. So I glanced at the clock, and to my dismay, it was 10:21. Be reminded that I am supposed to BE at work at 9:00.

So, as I rose and headed for the phone to call my boss, Feroze, the phone rang. Naturally I answered it. Who was on the other end? Feroze of course. As I switfly explained how I somehow slept through my alarm and would be to work asap, Feroze kindly ignored my comments and got on to business. “All thats fine,” he said, “but I just have a question for you about Excel.” EXCEL? I’m an hour and a half late to work and all my boss cares about is Excel? Wow. I guess that prooves it, I really do have one heck of a job (and boss).