I just got back last night from three days in Detroit at a training class for robot programming. I'm the engineer for a department that owns a robot...and now, the only one in that department who knows how to program it. Seems that everyone who did know gradually trickled out of the department until there were none, and the programs needed adjustment, and nobody knew how. While in Detroit, I also hung out with old friend Mikey, went to see a Tigers game at the newish ballpark, ate at Hockeytown Cafe, etc. Comerica Park is nice enough. I hate to admit it but it's a lot more attractive and the seats are much better than old Tiger Stadium. The Tigers, however, suck. They got their collective butt kicked last Wednesday and looked like a bunch of amateurs. Anyway, some weirdo in the parking lot tried to sell us $35 tickets for $10 (scalping is hard when there are 50,000 empty seats) but we turned him down, opting instead for the $8 bleacher seats and moving into empty $35 seats after a couple innings. There were 5 others in the robot class with me, from a food plant in Tennessee, who all went to the Tuesday game and had better luck than Mikey and me. Someone GAVE them 5 $35 tickets free, they stumbled into getting invited into the Tiger Club (invitation only-type dining, for sportswriters, politicians, etc, with an amazing buffet from what I hear), one of them caught a foul ball, and the Tigers won. Go figure.