hrj

... for many reasons. One of them is that when I stay at work until 8:30 pm finishing the final version of the report for the Big Investigation, it's still mildly duskish when I'm bicycling home. With any luck, my two primary reviewers will approve my melding of our three opinions, there will not be an[1] egregious typos, errors, or formatting glitches that somehow escaped my last several reviews, and we can sign it off and close it out with no drama tomorrow.

And then I can begin working on the new investigation for exactly the same type of elevated test result that just came into the system last week. (There wasn't enough time to incorporate it in the current report.) Annoying, of course, but then one of the conclusions of the investigation was that we haven't actually addressed the underlying causes yet (we just understand the nature of the questions better) and can expect to have the problem recur.

Fortunately, I'm not bored by the topic yet. (We're really only closing the current investigation for logistical reasons -- we're confident the quality of the material is ok, but we can't move it forward until the investigation's closed.) This will give me an excuse to plunge once more into digging through that last half dozen years' worth of data ....

ETA: [1] Per internet regulations, any sentence mentioning typos must contain at least one typo ... 'scuse me, "typoe".