The work week begins!

So now the fun begins.  Jen goes off for a seemingly interminable week of learning to be a good Catholic or some such programming, and David gets into the art of creative unemployment.  But wait - first we need cars!  Monday (31 January) was mostly a survey of what the web had to offer, which with jet lag tended to bring nose in contact with keyboard.  Good job there was a violin in the house, to ward off the somnolence.

That evening, Ray mentioned something called The Trading Post which Google had not revealed, and their web site had lots of entries for Canberra Auto Auctions in the low, low price range one of us was targetting.  So off went David on Tuesday (1 February) to view the selection, and picked out a couple of candidates, a sweet little red Peugeot for her and a suitably seasoned (1993) 4WD Subaru SportsWagon for him.  Brought her over after school, and she found a much better choice for herself, namely a 1994 indigo Toyota Camry.  Reasoning that $2500 (hers) + $1400 (his) was a bit more than we wanted to pay, we offered $3000 for the pair, and that was readily accepted.  Hands shaken all round, and a mutual agreement to meet the next day.

Meanwhile, earlier that afternoon, taking a break from cars for a bit, David discovered that the local foot-launched aviation club was to have its monthly meeting that very evening.  So off we went, and met some locals, two of whom were hang glider pilots amidst the swarm of paraglider pilots.  One of the righteous two bought us drinks, and the other (the VP, who chaired the meeting in the absence of the prez that evening) subsequently loaned me a glider.  More on that later.