i feel ya, sweetie. my truck's been sitting at the shop since 5/28. i broke a rod & am gonna have to replace the engine, too. since i was planning to do a v8 swap soon anyway, i wasn't too heartbroken... but the kicker is that i was gonna do it when i actually had money. so now it's been sitting for almost 7 weeks waiting for me to raise the money to fix it. unlike you, i don't have a plethora of nice vehicles (the old z, the new z, the 90 vette, the skylark, the new c5... what else? - i know i'm missing one or two

) to drive in the mean time.
congrats on getting your baby purring again!