Back in the Mitten

I'm back from my fist business trip. It was very rushed and busy nonstop, but it was a good learning experience.
We left Michigan Tuesday night and flew to Bangor, Maine. I'm not a big fan of Maine, or the northeast at all for that matter. I think the average age is Maine is oh, I don't know, maybe 96? We toured a production facility there. That was beneficial because I got to watch the product I'll be designing being built and assembled. Good information.

Leaving Maine was interesting. We were leaving at 5:40, which is the last flight out of the airport for the day. Bangor is really that small. The airport is basically a room with ticket counters, metal detectors, and gates. It's all one big thing. We were on Delta Connection going to Cincinatti. So we got on the plane late, taxied to the runway and sat for 15 minutes. Then the flight attendant said the pilots were getting a warning light and we had to return to the terminal. After we got back to the terminal, she told us to de-plane. Back in the terminal the airport was dead...everyone had gone home. So they said the flight was cancelled. We waited around for a few minutes, and most of the people just re-booked for the morning and left. Then they said that they were going un-cancel the flight...and there were only 4 passengers (us) left standing there. So the counter agent ran outside and found 4 of the other passengers and told them they could fly. So we got back on the plane. The flight attendant said it'd be just a minute because the other 4 people had to go through security. Well...suprise suprise, since we got off the plane WE had to go back through security. So we got off the plane AGAIN and went through security, then got back on the plane, for the third time. This time we took off and made it to Cincinatti at 12:00 am instead of 8:30 pm but atleast we made it. The flight attendant was giving out free alcohol and lot of crackers and snacks since there were only 8 passengers. She talked to me a lot about the stuff that goes on behind what passengers see...how she hates repeating all the safety stuff, how real Delta flight attendants hate the Delta Connection flight attendants, how they steal liquor...you know, the stuff flight attendants do. Whew...that was long to read, wasn't it? Well imagine what it was like to actually DO it.

So we got up this morning and went to a ZF plant in Kentucky, right outside Cincinatti. Oh did I mention Cincinatti's aiport is in Kentucky? Ohio's weird, remember? So we got to the plant at 8:00 am, took a quick tour, got back to the airport at 10:00 am, and took off at 11:00 am for Detroit. I was so tired. I just remember taking off from Cincinatti, and then waking up when a bell rang on the plane signaling passengers to prepare for landing, and wondered why my chin was so wet. I looked down and see a gigantic string of slobber on my shirt in a puddle, stringing up to my chin, and to my mouth. I quickly wiped it away and looked at the person who was beside me. He was still asleep.

A guy I work with was looking for an apartment and asked me how I liked mine. I told him about the apartment search I used, and he ended up deciding to live in the same apartments I do! He's a nice guy, and he's getting a 2 bedroom because he has to use one whole bedroom for all his games. He collects games...video games, board games...all games. He knows how to play Smash Brothers too. That will be fun, I've been dying to play.

Well you're probably tired of reading because I'm tired of typing. Tomorrow I leave for Ohio for a Honda race we have to go to for work. Ohio again...booooo!