A couple weeks after we got our new Honda, we decided to take it in to have it looked over, just to make sure we didn't get ripped off. The night before we were to take it in I got in the car to make a quick grocery run. I turned the key and there was a lot of whirring but no starting. The door had been left ajar for the previous day, so I assumed it lacked the power to start. We called Gwen's dad and had him come over to try to jump it (he had the metro at the time). Still nothing. After a short while we decided that power was not the problem.

The next day Gwen's dad replaced the spark plugs (since they weren't firing) and tried a few other tricks to get it going.  After none of them worked, we decided we would tow it the next day if we couldn't get it going. The next morning I decided to try one last time. I turned the key and it started right up. I drove around the block and all seemed well. When I got home we decided to take it to the shop right then. After getting all bundled up, Gwen and Dahlia got in the Metro and I got in the Honda... which didn't start!!

Very frustrated at this point, we had it towed to the shop. They gave us a call a short time later and they asked us if we had the original key. The key we gave them, we had just made at Fred Meyer. As it turns out in these fancy 99 Hondas, you have to have their magical key with a transmitter in it to get it going. The one time I did get it started was the one time I used the right key. 

The best part is that to get a new key we have to go to the Honda dealer, which is good news, because we are such good friends with some people over there as you might remember from previous posts.

This site is now smaller and more efficient! I've been doing a lot of behind the scene type stuff on the site over the last few weeks, making the site run a lot better. We got rid of a lot of old stuff, as Trè pointed out. The plan is to add updated content over time. In any event there should be more visible changes in the near future.

You may need to update your bookmarks since the locations of every page but the home page are different. The old rss feed should redirect but you may have to update that manually. :(

Boring Technical Stuff

I switched the site from asp to php. The two driving factors being that apache is a better server (it doesn't run asp) and I do all my coding for Monk in php. I also switched computers I'm running it off of from a really slow computer to a less slow computer. I switched over to a mysql database a few months ago. Hooray for open source!