On the road again...

Well, what an enchanting winter it's been! Took a trip out to LA (cold, rainy, not at all as advertised), then out to Philadelpha for Thanksgiving with Fran's family. Then a quick trip out to Pueblo to see my folks as my Dad had, not emergency, but certainly short-notice heart surgery (he had a cardio stress test, and they stopped him about ten minutes into it and had him go straight up to pre-op). So, we were pretty much travelled out come Christmas, so we spent it quietly at home. I did the traditional stay-up-late-assembling-toys Dad thing (since Fran had done the traditional go-all-out-buying-toys-for-the-only-child thing), which was cool.

My big post-holiday buzz has been getting the 944 back on the road again. It had been languishing in the garage with a stuck (down, of course) drivers side window, and I was going to fix it in my Copious Free Time (SM). Then Fran's car developed an oil leak. Turned out to be gaskets that I didn't have the tools, time or shop manuals to fix. So, we bundled it off to the Audi dealer in Omaha. We took it in on a Saturday and couldn't pick it up until the following Monday, which meant that Fran would have to take the Honda to work and I would have to get the Porsche running. So I spent Sunday evening tearing the door apart and fixing the window (turned out to be a bad window switch) and charging the battery and installing the car seat for Gabrielle. She loves it (she gets to sit in the front seat), and I get to drive like I mean it again.