On Mondays, we roll into our swanky downtown office after adventurous weekends of backpacking at Greenwater Lakes, cruising the slopes of Crystal Mountain, and riding the fake plastic horses of Pier 57. Tuesdays you’ll catch us wisecracking between meetings, before meetings and after meetings. Wednesdays are jam packed with coffee fueled last minute bug smashing, hot fixes, code correcting, executive team meetings, conference calls galore, oh, and did I mention coffee?

Thursday mornings are the apex of importance for this Seattle startup! In the world of web applications it’s known as a launch day. This is the moment we release any awesome new effects, fonts, frames and stickers along with design changes, new upgrade paths, and all the other back-end maintenance projects we’ve been working on.

By the time Thursday afternoon rolls around, understandably, we are quite tuckered out.  But it’s only day four in the week and we’ve still got one more day to conquer.  How do we do it? What’s our silver bullet? What gets the team through the final hour (4pm to 5pm)? Three words:

Easy. Listening. Thursday.

It’s time for Team Picnik to work in complete and utter smoothness. We dim the lights, we crack open an ice cold Crystal Geyser Juice Squeeze and we get down to business. The business of tranquility, that is.  Saxophones, long wavy hair, circular breathing, and lingering beats.  We pick a starting point (Al Green, Kenny G,  Bolton, or is it more of an Enya day?) and let Pandora do the rest.  This is what soothes us, eases our worries, and keeps us cool in the chaos of web 2.0.  It’s that simple, and for this Easy Listening Thursday and the many more to come, we invite you to do the same.

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