The Case of the Toyota

Just a little news about our faithful little Toyota. I went out one day to pick up Courtney from work and the car's alarm light was blinking madly, and my tiny remote would not unlock the car.

My key would not unlock the doors either. I was locked out and could not open the hood to read the owners manual, and I had the key!! I called Courtney and she got a ride home, and after tinkering for a few more minutes we gave up and called AAA.

They showed up 15 minutes later and got into our car with surprising (and disconcerting) ease. Once inside we popped the hood and something had gone wrong with our battery. They gave us a jump from their portable battery, and recommended that we check out our electrical system and get some new keys cut from the dealer, since ours were worn down almost smooth. (they still worked in the ignition, but not the doors). After close inspection I determined that I left the lights on after I last used the car. (I never leave the lights on)

but this is only half the story, the AAA guy says Toyota will cut new keys if you have all the right paperwork (which we do). So I scooted down to the Toyota dealership in Spokane and requested a new set of keys. After the clerk disappeared in to the mysterious "back" for some time, he returned with two new keys that resembled the ones we had but much newer and shinier, and he gave them too me free of charge. Probably because I looked very much like a poor college student with a junky old car. All's well that ends well I suppose. Go Steelers

happy thanksgiving

boy was thanksgiving ever happy, it was great to only have two days of school that week. A lot has happened in the past few weeks, we bought a car, a 1995 gold Toyota Camary. I took the GRE and rocked the 1000 point cutoff at BYU. BYU beat the U at football 17-10, and this year makes two.

For thanksgiving, Courtney and I, and Michel and Erin Anderson all went up to Lehi UT. and spent the day with the Haines family, and we a quite grateful for their hospitality.

School is coming to a close, and many of my large assignments are already completed, so there are only a few more things to do before finals kick in. Finding parking close to BYU is a joke, everything fills up at about 8:00 am sharp and there are no more spots available for the rest of your life, so you have to walk from 40 miles away, or just park at the marriot center.

The new car is good, it has mostly all working parts, but it lacks tunes, so we may get that looked at. the rest of it seems to be on good order, and it passed Carfax with flying colors.

It has finally gotten cold here in Provo, and outside our door the rain gutter drips and it has created an interesting looking natural ice sculpture on the grass.

in a distant past I had some pictures from halloween, and a few other things.

Beware the blurry Strong Bad Pumpkin.


Scooby doo and a Tiger playing gameboy on BYU campus, on halloween.
And begining a new tradition, funny things on BYU campus. This picture in in the library, and it shows the collective intelligence of the geography department. Clearly the library is located in South Central Africa.