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Jonathan Wheat

You'd love working with me then. I'm 48 and still in the game playing hard. I do have to say it IS amazing the perspective you have on things at this age. Especially when I look at how far technology has come - which is a distinct advantage for me.

I literally had 20k and 64k RAM in my first and second computer, no internet, dial up BBSs and you traded 5 1/4" floppy disks if you wanted to swap software. With those types of constraints, you learn to use your resources wisely. I can write some pretty tight code because of it compared to some of the bloated code I have to deal with that other devs write.

To your point, at 48, life is too short to give one.

Ok, getting off my old-man soapbox now, hope I don't fall and break a hip.

Signed,
"Get off my lawn" Jon