Years ago I worked at Ralphs Grocery installing an inventory package and they had a contractor who would come in at 4 or 5 a.m. every day. He lived somewhere up the California coast and would fly in every week, staying in an apartment Ralphs paid for. Part of the reason they paid him the big bucks was he not only wrote great software for them, he was a guru to their staff as well. It seemed like there was always a line outside his cubicle. (One of the young guys nicknamed him Yoda, which should tell you something). Ron's basic strategy was to get his "real" work done by the time the staff came in at 8 or 8:30, spend the rest of his shift mentoring, and boogie at around 2 in the afternoon. It worked for him.

I worked with him for months, usually including morning coffee break along with a third movie nut, before learning he was married. And that he had been working out of town for several years. I asked him if absence made the heart grow fonder. "No," he said, "absence makes the heart forget." That was sad.

Last Ron story. One day the MIS director got a call from the CEO's secretary saying Byron would like to have lunch with Ron. He asked her to put Byron on the line. "Ron's just a programmer," he said, "why do you want to have lunch with him?" "Because I see what we're paying him and want to meet the guy." LOL


>He said "its now 5:15AM here". God knows what time he actually got there!
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>>Calvin, you goober! <g> What are you doing at work at 5:15am? Are you dedicated or crazy? And the real question is, when you run out of gas after lunch, will they let you take a power nap? :~)
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>>>Looks interesting but I can't download the express version. Keep getting a 0 length file. Does it compile to a true executable and is it strongly typed? VFP is wonderful but typing mistakes get me in trouble all the time. What time is it in South Africa. I couldn't sleep so came into work- its now 5:15AM here.