Day: March 25, 2007

Because apparently I can’t not do this, here’s the Friday Sunday Random Guess 10:

  1. “Granddad’s Little Ditty” by Primus, guessed by Wormbrain
    Is it flatus? Just a touch
  2. “Box #10” by Jim Croce, guessed by Kim
    I got a pipe upside my head
  3. “The Carbon Cycle” by Hard ‘N Phirm, guessed by Kim
    Every daughter cell eats and breathes with me
  4. “Africa” by Toto, guessed by Kim
    I stopped an old man along the way
  5. “It Don’t Hurt” by Sheryl Crow
    The electric man’s a good place to start
  6. “Omaha” by Counting Crows
    Start tearing the old man down
  7. “Waitin’ for a Superman” by the Flaming Lips
    I didn’t need you to reply
  8. “Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, guessed by Eric
    Life used to be so hard
  9. “I’m Going to Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    Tonight I’m going to bring a rope and she can hang herself
  10. “Roadkill” by Christine Fellows
    There is no sign of us anywhere

Eventually I’ll get around to posting the answers to the last couple of weeks. In the meantime, and as always, good luck!

So Detroit. That was interesting. I took my notebook computer with me, but there was no convenient (and, more importantly, no complimentary) internet connection anywhere in the hotel or convention center. So my computer spent most of the trip locked up in hotel room safe. Maybe I could have charged the connection fee(s) to my expense report if I’d used my computer to check on work e-mail…but that would have meant checking on work e-mail while I was there. Which, to be honest, wasn’t something I really wanted to do after eight hours on my feet selling books each day.

We didn’t see a whole lot of the city, but then again it seems to more or less close up after 5 pm. I think Detroit has definitely seen some better days. We had dinner a couple of nights at the hotel, then on Friday in Greektown (after which we briefly visited the casino there), and this morning my three co-workers and I met up for breakfast before heading our separate ways. We never did venture across the water to Canada, to see if we could get in without our passports, but I was amused to see the CBC among the local television stations.

All in all, I think it was a reasonably good trip — it was my first real convention trip — but four nights was a little much. I’m a little tired and happy to be home.