Every so often, major projects rise unexpectedly to distract me from the work I am trying to accomplish. At times, these projects are eagerly welcomed in spite of their tendency to draw heavily upon my attention and time, at the expense of other such projects I am attempting to accomplish. Such has been the case over this summer, ever since the month of April, when I was tasked with deploying and managing an entirely new ISO 9001:2008 certified Quality Management System within our office. Yesterday, we successfully completed our audit to confirm the status of our implementation of the system in accordance with ISO (with 1 minor non-conformance) and thus receive our certificate – I now feel comfortable returning to the world.