This is the start of a new category in Being Happy, Living the Dream. It’s called The VW Jetta. Why? Because “The Beast”, as one of my very favorite roomates calls it, still roams free and breaths life into its occupants.
It’s my car. A 1986 VW Jetta. Brown, down, get-out-of-town (eventually) slow, 68 hp of turbocharged diesel mania! When its all tuned up it will get about 50mpg. How’s that for a clunker? It will beat the heck out of those hybrid -wannabe effiecient but take 10 years to make up the difference in price- blognamobiles.
My benevolent first cousin once removed gave me this car as a going-home present from my mission. My dad flew in and we drove it from Ventura to their new home in Kaysville back in September of 2006. It was a splendid ride. It only had 73k miles on it at the time! What a machine strait from the heavens.
This car has given many a ride to my best bud Janie, given rides to lovely ladies, got the groceries, and taken me from Provo to Phoenix, Phx to LA, LA to Oregon and back to Provo again. The beast and I have had some good times.
I have been protesting Facebook for some 3.5 years now. I thought it was a big waste of time because so many do just that.
I have decided that I’m going to be in the world and try not to be of it. Because my father, grandmother, bishop, and Church now have facebook pages I figure it’s finally time.
Eric and I went to a car show last Saturday with our parents. My dad used to take us to car shows all the time as kids, that’s probably part of the reason we were all such gearheads. I loved car shows, you get to sit in neato cars that you normally just read about. This is Eric and I chipping away at some snow to get a close parking spot!
It was fun but we ended up yoinking another one anyway.
This has to be the weirdest piece of art ever made. The dude had a spiritual experience killing a bird? The display was a long sloping white platform with a big white dead turkey laying there. What . . . the . . . odd?
Oh man, my windows are so dirty. I can’t clean them, though, because I don’t have an elaborate vehicle to hoist me 2 feet off the ground to wipe ‘em down.
My friend Jeff Harmon recently was made CEO of a start-up company with a product called Orabrush. They have some pretty silly videos advertising it. I was Jeff’s counselor in our Sunday School presidency 2 years back when we were in the same singles ward. Impressive how it’s up to 3 million views now.
Brighton is a ski resort nearby Salt Lake City. It’s sweet. It’s a little more rough and tumble than fancy-shmancy pants Park City or The Canyons. If you can scrounge up a 2 for 1 it’s $16 for night skiing. Super Sweet. We went there last night and boarded it up good. The snow was nice even though it was night time. I don’t regret the board purchase at all.
Afterward we ate at Burgers Supreme here is Provo and it was amazing. I had a Gyro plate and wowee its been a while, my love has returned, though.
This is what I’ll look like some day. . . except my board isn’t wicked old school like that one (shaped like a house).
Jeremy Hanks of Doba is a cool guy. He was an accounting major at BYU and after an internship in audit with Arthur Anderson he decided that he’d do just about anything to get out of public accounting (I didn’t need to do an internship to figure that one out! I just had to looks at the overly forced half-smiles of recruiters talking about how they “loove” their work). Jeremy dropped out and started Geartrade.com. It did really well and he sold the business to some guy and they sold it to backcountry.com. Pretty cool. Then he started Doba.com.
Doba charges people a monthly fee to help them be a drop-ship business. They’re pretty cool and are doing well; all over the INC 500. He came and spoke at BYU one time so I emailed him through his blog and asked him if we could meet and talk entrepreneurship. He was on a plane to France at the time but emailed me right back and invited me to have breakfast with him at Kneaders in Alpine, UT. Way cool!
It was a ton of fun to meet him, he’s definitely your stereotype can-do-everything very kind and energetic entrepreneur type. I was impressed at how much attention and consideration he gave me considering his success in business. Cool guy. He eventually went back to BYU and finished his degree, changing to business management because they waived some classes.
I love getting comments on my blog. Most bloggers do. I love it so much that I was even willing to go to some wacky links that these Russian people would put as comments on my blog. It was a lot of characters I didn’t recognize and most likely spam.
Now you’ll find a cool math problem thing to prevent spam. I love it.
Last August I practice graduated by walking at commencement without having all my classes done. First day of school was today! After deferring a semester it really feels like I’m coming back to some kind of friendly organization after a long distant vacation.
American Heritage was very impressive today. It was so humorous and well-rhythmed that it seemed rehearsed. Dr. Pope started off the class with the scene from Wizard of Oz where Dorothy accidentally melts the wicked witch with water. Sweet. He said it taught the principle of freeing captives or whatever. The flying monkeys are now free!
After introducing himself the professor asked the students if they had any questions – one girl asked “aside from family and professional accomplishments, what are you most proud of deep down and personally?” Wow. That was a hilariously good question with an answer to compliment it. His answer was that he and some friends in college beat the BYU “college bowl” (knowledge bowl thing) team and their name was “those darn quasars”. Nice.
BYU is a great place. Country dance is going to be fun.
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