Got a rental car on my day off yesterday, drove the four hours home and visited Fiona at the repair shop. Paid her deductable, received a nice fat buy-out check for her new tank, exhaust system, and battery box cover (when she was on her side last August, acid leaked out of the battery, and since she's been sitting for months on end waiting for parts, the corrision sat in while she was still in the shop). I was informed that the new tank from Hitchcock's was delivered this afternoon, and will be installed this week, along with the new Motobatt AGM cell I dropped off (no more spilled acid, thank you very much).
So close to riding I can almost taste the bugs in my teeth...