Thursday Night in Detroit

Tonight I am in Detroit and as usual at the Country Inns & Suites in Novi. I get a rate of $79.99 so if you are not at this rate or better negotiate. Anywy, I arrived here from home around 0805 on wednesday morning and worked all day in the field along I-94. This is the first real field work since the pain in the neck started and I wondered if I could make the grade. I survived all day and went out to a good dinner with an associate then slept most of the night. Today was pretty good too with the help of two morning asprins and a noon time ibuprophen 200.

Tomorrow promises to be a shorter day but a longer drive, i.e. Detroit to home in addition to the 50 or so miles of the work route. We have to document and inventory the cabinets and equipments along the same route.

I purchased gasoline for $1.979 per gallon and this seems to be the prevailing rate here. I saw prices as low as $1.949 in the downtown Detroit area. Prices in NE Indiana were $2.129 when I left and this leads to the thoughts of how Indiana must not care too much about how the low income of NE IN can afford those prices. FYI-the average Steuben County wage is in the neighborhood of $9/hr with average tops around $12/hr. Maybe there is some kind of price fixing going on and the R’s just look the other way.