2:48 to be precise. 🙂 And Dwain has it spot on. I live in the area of Detroit. I like to get on the forums to relax a bit after work and work frequently has me up quite late.

We ran into a major problem with a 3rd party upgrade to their software and I had to fix that, which took a good portion of the day. Then we ran into a privs problem with another 3rd party bit of software and trying to figure out what they really needed took a good while. Of course, they wanted "SA" privs and, of course, I'm hell bent on giving them only what I think they really need. I'll never give a 3rd party "SA" privs even on a dev box. After that, I had to fix the point-in-time backups on the dev and staging boxes (seems like overkill but I protect my developers' work as much as I can). We have more disk space on order but it's not in time for the sudden growth we experiennced because of several new clients and all the major DB backups simply ran out of room.

Then, there are the normal daily questions and special requests that need to be handled. For example, I peer review 100% of the code that moves from dev to staging and do a final check when it moves from staging to production. The peer reviews are also time to "mentor" the developers in the art of writing good, high performance SQL and time for me to keep up with all the projects so I know what's coming up for the production databases.

None of that means that I can avoid the work that I need to do on another time-sensitive project and I didn't get started on that until quite late in the day.

Heh... so, yes... to answer the underlying question, I have a hell of a sleep deficit going on most weeks and I'm slightly insane. I need to learn from my own joke about the difference between being "loyal" to a company and being "dedicated". You have to think about "Ham'n'Eggs".... the chicken was loyal... the pig was dedicated. 😀