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The Big Investigation is finished, completed, signed, uploaded, done. We were all a combination of snappish and slap-happy all weekend, but towards the end it was that end-of-marathon grim determination. I still don't think I can discuss details, but let's just say that closure was immediately followed by phone calls to the mothership in Germany and the packaging facility in Italy for further follow-up. The investigation was successful in that we determined and demonstrated that no product quality was compromised at any point. But the process was considerably fraught with fraughtness.

I've been griping a lot about the long hours, but the fact is that this sort of schedule happens very very rarely, and nobody at my level was in a "do it or else" situation. While I didn't exactly volunteer for the weekend work, I wasn't exactly commanded to it either. And if I'd had a hard conflict, other arrangements would have been made. Furthermore, the Big B is quite excellent about rewarding and appreciating above-and-beyondness. And, as I've noted before, I'm quite gratified and made secure by the fact that it's become reflexive for them to assign this sort of project to me.

But I'm still going to see just how many comp days I can squeeze out of the system. (It's never a one-for-one thing for us exempts, but I put in over 50 hours more than my 40-a-week in the past week, and that doesn't count all the rest of the hours in the past month and a half.)

And now, I'm going to go to sleep at my regular bedtime and get up in the morning for my regular workout, and then go to work again.