Complex Numbers

Mondaze

Short week, lots to do. As per usual, I suppose.

My company is applying for SWaM certification for public projects - that's small, woman-owned and minority-owned. Well, we're small, and my partner only owns 50% of the company so it's not woman-owned. But the definition of small company is something like 250 or fewer employees, or gross receipts less than $10,000,000 per year. We're at 4 employees (one part-time) and, well, a lot less than that in receipts.

We're not just small; we're microscopic.

We need to do this, though - there's a slump in the market now, and if we don't find some work soon I'll be out on the streets with a hand-lettered cardboard sign inside three months. That means public projects. That means a metric shitload of paperwork.

So that was my Monday - getting nothing done while my partner worked on the certification requirements, stopping to ask me questions I couldn't answer every ten minutes.

Given all the crap the government requires, it makes me even more glad that they repealed Prohibition a while back - 'cause after that, I need a drink.