We’d process dates for John Berry, add new shows for American Head Charge and update the listing for Mest without even a thought of monetary compensation. That’s just the way we are.

In fact, when you get right down to it, we’d even pay our employers for the privilege of working here. We’d consider it a worthy sacrifice in order to bring you the dates for Kenny Chesney and Dave Matthews. Your pleasure at finding the latest schedules for your favorite artists is reward enough. That’s just the way we are.

Yes, we’d sell our houses, get rid of our cars and eat nothing but Pringles and moldy beef jerky in order to list shows for Lee Rocker and Fear Factory. Our personal comfort, our health, our checking accounts, even our very own lives do not concern us. Not when we can spend each day looking at date, city and venue for Gaelic Storm, The Colors Of Christmas or the Family Values Tour. That’s just the way we are.

And this fancy office filled with the latest in state-of-the-art equipment means nothing to us. We’d just as soon sit in mud huts, scratching out the schedules for Beenie Man and U2 on recycled bathroom tissue using nothing but quill pens dipped in our own blood. That’s just the way we are.

Of course, it hasn’t come to that. We work in climate-controlled, air-conditioned offices. Our mornings consist of processing itineraries for D12 and Agnostic Front while our Canadian immigrants go from cubicle to cubicle handing out donuts and giving neck rubs. Our afternoons are filled with champagne, caviar and fine Havana cigars while we process show info for Jason McCoy and Richard Thompson, but we’d give it all up if we had to. That’s just the way we are

But as long as management keeps paying us the big bucks for entering dates for Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and The Verve Pipe, we’ll keep cashing the checks. We’ll race our fine European sports cars in the parking lot during lunch hour and each evening we’ll treat ourselves to the finest restaurants, bars, and massage parlors Fresno has to offer. Yes, we’ll suck up every free CD, every complimentary concert ticket, and every perk that comes our way. Why?

Because that’s just the way we are.