... I shouldn't have left you....

Too many things going on this year -- biggest was a knot tied in the summer with the lovely Bus Chick, followed by establishing our joint helipad in the CD.  All this in the midst of a career upgrade.

Anyway, we now return to the normal unreliable blogging schedule.

Today's good news was actually from last night -- somehow, the Tigers are in the World Series.  I saw them play here in Seattle earlier in the season and they were good, but I certainly didn't predict this.

In fact, this was almost a Good Michigan Sports Weekend, nearly the exact opposite of a Bad Michigan Sports Weekend.  The improbability of the Tigers in the World Series, a Michigan victory over Penn State to stay unbeaten, and the Lions' long-awaited first victory of the season overshadowed a Friday loss by the Red Wings and of course an expected embarrassment of Michigan State at the hands of #1 ranked OSU (this last one just listed for completeness, not because it actually concerns me).

The Tigers victory that allowed thousands of suburbanites to celebrate in the streets of downtown Detroit as if they had always stood in solidarity with its citizenry was nearly enough to hush my Detroit anxieties.

It's too bad that winning sports teams can't fix schools or give lives ruined by poverty and ignorance a reason and a means to seek a return to productive society.