Picked up the Turo this am w/Lauren after finishing work on the Pinball machine. Loved working on that with her, and it came together well in and works great. The BMW 431i M class convertible has been a blast. I took Lauren home and got Tommy Caden and Talon from Talon's house. Grabbed donuts/bagels and drove Hicks/Shannon route. Dropped the two friends off, got Lauren, Dropped school books at Leigh and found very unexpectedly that Lauren had a HUGE bag of locker contents to claim. Followed that with a drive with Talon again, and kids, to Phils. Ran into Kathy Valhov of all people. Had a great meal as usual and was very glad to have Tommy not accept a pretty shitty (massively over-cooked) calamari dish. "It's Phils", he said, "it's never like this". Good on him. Don't settle. Returned with a detour from Capitola through to Santa Cruz, then back. Got off in LG but ran into a BLM demonstration in progress so had to wind through the backstreets. Dropped Talon, returned for a break and after considering that Lauren willingly gave her 'seat' so Tommy could go to Umunhum w/Talon and Caden, I took her for a 1:1 ride beforehand. Then, back on the road, back up to Umunhum (no Caden after all), and back home. 200+ miles in a day. Renting a convertible at the start or end of summer has become something of a ritual and given that we really don't go on big scale vacations, this is a way of getting out, about, away, and making memories for all of us. Tomorrow we'll do a Skyline run but I'm not going to be driving all day again. Just because I rent a car doesn't mean I want to sit in it for 12hrs straight. It's hard to resist the "... but we have it and it's nice out" voice in my head, so.... we'll see how things play out. I sure wish we had clear night skies though.