Now I know that China is 12 hours ahead. I know because I received an email from my manufacturer friend who is over there talking to his China partner about manufacturing my product. He sent me an email at 11 am (China) yesterday...after I had gone to bed. When I got up this morning I was scrambling to answer all the issues he had raised knowing that today (now) was his last day in China. No worry, he slept while I was at work. I came home and prepared my answers just as he was getting up. Now I have exchanged a couple more emails tonight and told him I could/would stay up all night if necessary to address any issues that came up. He hasn't replied yet...I'm waiting...
After anxiously checking my mail every day for nearly 2 weeks since MWD said they were ready to mail out the grant notification letters, I finally had gotten totally frustrated. I had emailed the MWD rep yesterday and he didn't even answer. So today I called him. He said, "lets see now...Aeromaster Innovations...oh you have the funny looking valve that you want to install under sprinkler heads." "Millions of them" I replied. "Well good, I was just getting ready to call you...your grant request was approved". "So I'm mailing out the letter (I'll believe it when I see it) and then we have to get to the negotiation phase...I see that you have requested $$$$...well we'll need to go through this line by line and see what we can fund and what we can't". I was still stuck on "approved". Only later did it sink in that approved for what has not yet been established. So, I'm cautiously optimistic and not at all deterred. After all, whatever funding I get will be that much more than I have today. Stay tuned.
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