Or maybe, instead of Detroit, it will be in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Tenn., via Nashville. And on Tuesday. *Sigh*

Heard from the lead on this Detroit thang, who gave me more background details.

The good news:

• The work is to review a bid made by a software company to provide systems integration services to a subsidiary of ours that will be doing work on a testing facility for a major automotive manufacturer. Big contract, big visibility.
• It’s primarily a due diligence sort of thing; the contract has been green-lit, but a formal (if brief) review has been requested by senior management to make sure the numbers look correct. Low risk (for me, at least).
• I was personally recommended by the CIO, who may very well be with us on the trip, along with some other honchos of higher pay grade than myself.

The bad news:

• It’s a fly-in-the-night-before, fly-out-the-night-of kind of whirlwind affair, so it seems unlikely I’ll have a chance to eat cake with Les, dagnabbit.
• Rather than being Thursday, it’s more likely Tuesday. Which would mean missing the Monday night concert at Red Rocks which I have tickets for, dammit. I’ll know more by this p.m.

Ah, the hard life of a salaryman.