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Things are moving forward fine with the plane. I'm now in the well-known positon among pilots of calling my mechanic every few days and asking when the plan is likely to be done.
It's actually going fine. The parts for the big post-inspection item is at the shop, and the other little things are on order. So the plane will be put back together, better than it was, and annualed, soon-ish-ish.
I have a flight instructor who I know, is a Mooney expert, and a known quanity on deck to do my transition training. More of what I need is to get back up to speed from a few years of frankly not flying very much. I flew 5 hours of Mooney time in July, mostly takeoffs and landings, so I suspect it will be less Mooney-specific stuff and more just getting out and flying a lot. And it will be in my airplane, which I understand from an intellectual point of view but totally hasn't sunk in yet.
If it gets done when I think it will, I have a plan for getting it before Christmas. If it doesn't, then I'll just deal with it when we get back home in January.
Nothing is a problem--it's just a matter of patience. It's far more important for it to be done right than soon.