I’m blogging at the Audi dealer, while our car is fitted with a new starter relay. This will hopefully solve the problems we’ve had recently when starting the car.
Outside, it’s rainy, the first rainy day we’ve had in a week, more or less. Florence and Mike, Sarah’s parents, always assure us of good weather when they visit.
I’ve spent most of the week coding, adding signature authentication to Ruby/AWS, and fixing the massive breakage caused to my MythTV grabber by UPC’s complete overhaul of their on-line TV guide. This second project is rather urgent and has consumed rather a lot of hours, as many users have been left out in the cold by UPC’s changes. That’s the inherently problematic nature of a screen-scraper for you.
Across from me, a brand-spanking-new, black 5.2 litre V10 Audi R8 beckons to be test-driven. I don’t usually go in for short-dick-man cars, but this one’s a beauty, and a snip at just under €250,000. However, much like the computer used by Little Britain’s sullen receptionist cum travel-agent, Sarah says, “No.”
She’s right, of course. I have enough difficulty keeping the battery charged on our current car, because it doesn’t get driven even once a week at the moment. An R8, as nice as it is, would undergo a brief period of gratuitous daily driving and then sit and rot in the driveway.
When I do need to drive, it’s usually with the whole family in tow, so what use is a two-seater?
But dreaming is gratis, right?
Well, I hope we have the same luck as your in-laws when it comes to weather, but we are going to pack for rain.
The sun has since turned to rain, but who knows? It could be beautiful again by the time you get here.