Because I'm mentioned in Time Magazine this week the subject of "the company" came up from time to time at the wedding I attended.

One question that comes up, inexplicably, is "are you still running your company out of your house?"  I've had this question posted 4 times by family members. I'm not sure how this comes about.  Our company was never run out of our house.  It was in my dorm room for a very short amount of time, 11 years ago. But since 1995 it's had an office. 

I've wondered how that sort of thing got started. Why the assumption that any company I would have would, inevitably, be too small to have an office building (let alone a 7000 square foot one we're in the process of purchasing).  Not that we're some sort of mega corp.  But we're a long long way from being a garage shop and have been for a good decade.

Being parnaoid, I tend to read a small amount of patronization when discussing "the company".  Nothing malicious mind you. But a sort of "Oh, that's cute he's started his own little computer company." 

I think most of that patronization is my own fault. While my writings don't tend to convey this, in person, I tend to take on the role of comic relief. I enjoy trying (though usually failing <g>) to make people laugh.  I used to be much more like that when I was younger (teen years especially). So I think it's hard for some people in my family to take me very seriously.