It's freaking cold in SF right now. I miss the midwest. I don't miss the weather, though. Although I do think Iowa was just as cold as SF is at any given year. Good thing SF doesn't get snow.
Car is back.
It cost me a little over 1 grand to get back, too. I was saving that money to fly to Iowa to visit friends and family. If a state wants to get you to pay fines or registration, they should pull you out of your car, drag you over to the department of motor vehicles and make you pay for the fines, etc. instead of taking your car and telling you to walk, then expecting you to pay 10 times the fines just to get your car back. I think I may actually get to release some software soon. In his messages that he leaves on my machine, he tells me a cookie-cutter replica of the previous message, modifying the urgency in his voice slightly each time.