I started a short-term gig in Detroit (Troy actually) on Tuesday.  I’m on-site Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until the 26th.  I get to work from home on the Fridays.

While I can’t say too much about the gig, I can say that I’m helping a group of consultants crunch numbers for an auto company.  The days are long — 10 to 12 hours each day — but the work is interesting.  Back to the basics….No flashy UIs, no ASP.NET….we’re talking Access 2007, Excel 2007 and Sql Server 2005.  Slurp the data from Excel and Access into Sql, crunch the numbers and dump back out to Excel.

I do have to say that I’m incredibly impressed with Office 2007.  For being a beta, it’s super-freakin’ stable, especially given the stuff I’ve been throwing at it.

I’m looking forward to getting home for the weekend though…