Strange behavior

[cornontherob]

I noticed that when I drive the car in the winter (I know, I know, boxster in winter), that it shifts harder and is harder to get into gear when it's cold. I haven't noticed this in other manual cars I've driven, and it returns to smooth shifting once the car has been driving for about 5 minutes. Is that normal?

Also, I noticed that when I took it on a four hour drive this weekend, it consumed about 1 mark of oil on the indicator, and the aos has been replaced.