Credence Clearwater Revival

Just finished slogging through our dear government's CCR website - The Central Contractor Registration system, for all of you who are acronym-challenged. IF you are a small business AND you want to do business with Uncle, THEN you have to complete the CCR process, which, dear reader, is about as pleasant as a tooth extraction. Maybe that's why I've hesitated to do so all of these years, during which time I managed to keep my biz happily entrenched in the private sector. But I can't ignore the public sector opportunities any longer, and so I am plunging (blindly) ahead with the requisite forms. One must select from a dizzying array of North American Industry Classification System Codes, Standard Industrial Classification Codes, Product Service Codes, and Federal Supply Classification Codes, as well as suffer through the provision of a nauseating amount of other information. In the list of Product Service Codes and Federal Supply Classification Codes from which one must select up to twenty applicable categories, I was a bit taken aback to discover that the first two choices in each list are "weapons" and "nuclear ordnance." What does that say about us? Nothing, I hope, except that the lists are a bit outdated, at least as far as the "nuclear ordnance" part is concerned. If it makes you feel any better, there are frequent references to "punched card equipment" in the lists as well. Does that make you feel any better? It doesn't help me much.