Thought when I left academic life that I'd never have to write another grant proposal in my life. But I just put the finishing touches on the first draft of a small business grant to support by new drug company. Feels pretty good, actually. Free money is the best kind, so here's hoping. My friend who's on the Science and Tech committee (the committee who reauthorizes the SBIR grant program) is writing me a letter of support, so I doubt that hurts my chances. Good to know people, kids. Targeting quitting my job by summer's end, but that's still a hard sell to my wife. She's warming up though since she's seeing some success starting to trickle in. I've all but quit mentally however, and I'm more or less doing the bare minimum to not get fired (or to get fired by not in the next 3-5 months!). Never been the type to phone it in, but it doesn't feel that bad, tbh.