Joe,
I could only hope for that kind of situation. The usual response I get from my wife is "another POS?". To make matters worse, the shop is 7 miles away. I try to avoid any machine related discussions with her. She just does not understand.
My father would be right along with me on it, but he's 100 miles away, and getting a little tool old for this kind of stuff. I do blame him to a point. He started it....although I'm taking it to a higher level, but I don't see a planer in my future.

FYI, we gave up DH a season ago. Too much like a soap opera. The usual is crime dramas. There's way too much violence on TV, so I sit with the laptop (perusing PM, and other similar stuff) and casually watch.

John