The two-week work marathon in Saint John is over and I fly and drive back home starting this morning. It was the most intensely demanding piece of work I have done in a long while, but also one of the most intellectually satisfying -- boy you don't get to say that very often about a job! I was part of a team sitting around a conference table day after day thinking out loud about how to do things within a certain domain, then coming up with an accurate process description that people could use. The work isn't over, and I'll continue with the team for several weeks, but I doubt that we'll approach the great synergy we had in that room. But that was the point of going at it for these two weeks, to give us all a running start.