An aging community we are

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> This public service announcement was brought to you by John Esak:
> > For my edification.... Just when is this "middle of the night"?  I think
I
> > should be a zillionaire.  :-)
> 
> Erm...yeah, it's kind of fluid.  For me, it could be noon.  :)  But for
> billing purposes, it's everyone else's idea of logical night.  :)
> 
> If someone calls me at 3am, platters better be flying out the sides of the
> server, or something else -really- good.  Well, actually I really don't
> care, since I charge the same at that time of day whether it's something
> really good, or something someone knee-jerked over.  It's their dime.
It's
> just less aggravating on principle when it's for a really good reason.  :)
> 
> mark->

Mark,

When you deal with people whose company's run on my software and their
largest customer tells them the tomorrow we are changing the data type for
one of the fields transmitted from a 15 digit numeric field to an 18 digit
alphanumeric field, I need to take care of this.  They loose the customer, I
loose an account.  Besides, in this case, my client is barely staying in
business so anything I can do to keep him in business is a plus for me.  I
have had this account for 18 years so a bit under 30 minutes of work at
mid-night is no big deal  even when I am on vacation.  Besides how many
programmers can say they modified a program from a ship for a client in New
York City?

Richard