Okay, the time is here. It's time to announce the winner of the free Ragan conference registration. Thanks to all of you wonderful people who contributed to the discussion on whether or not to put company materials above the urinals and in the stalls of the employee bathrooms.

I went through and wrote down the name of everyone who participated, and have just now put all those names into a hat. My five-year-old son, Zach, will be doing the drawing.

(For those who didn't get the press release, Zach is the new official Director of Human Resources at Crescenzo Communications. He received this major promotion two days ago; we were driving in the car and he said, 'Dad, you should take more days off during the week so we can do cool stuff in the city when it's not so crowded.' Damn, I thought to myself, I like the way this kid thinks about benefits. Thus the promotion.

His first decision was to give all Crescenzo Communications employees 85 personal days a year. He also thinks we should hold more meetings at Wrigley Field, and follow the European model of three-hour lunches and taking the entire summer off. Please don't try to hire him away from me.)

Okay, here we go . . . a drum roll please . . . the winner is . . . wait a minute, my HR director asked if we could postpone the meeting until SpongeBob is over. Since SpongeBob is how we handle diversity training here at Crescenzo Communications (SpongeBob, in case you've never seen the show, is most certainly a homosexual sponge), we have to wait eight minutes.

Okay! Here we go. There are 26 names in the hat. And the winner is . . . . . Rick!! I only know Rick's first name, but here was the first part of his post:

'Well I too am a first time poster and Steve Neruda draftee. I am also an employee of Monique (I'm the one who makes certain that her low tech ways can exist in this high tech company).'

Rick also mentioned a 'liquid lunch' in his post, so he is obviously a worthy winner.

Rick, can you e-mail me so we can sort out the details?

If Rick doesn't get back to me in a couple of weeks, or if he for some reason cannot fulfill the duties of his post, I will select another winner. Thank you for participating.

Have a great weekend . . . I'll be posting from Washington, D.C. on Monday.