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The door strikes back with a vengeance!

So after a long day at work I go out to the BMW for the ride home. I place the key in the lock and turn. Nothing happens. I turn forward which should cause the windows to roll down. I have been doing this a lot, especially when people are around. It looks odd when it is snowing. The alternative is to open the passenger side and crawl over or reach over and open the driver door. If I opted for opening the driver door through the passenger side I had to push the driver door out far enough so it didn’t just close back before I walked around. Now do you see why I go with the window down option? With the other option I can sell tickets for people to watch the show.

Now back to the story. The window doesn’t go down. I get nothing by turning the key either way. Now at this point I need to make it clear that the BMW only has one door lock where the key can be used. It is all or nothing so I am starting to panic. I try to open all the doors and the hatchback. No luck. I go inside to get some hot water to see if maybe the lock is in some kind of crazy frozen state. On the way back to the car I am praying hard for God to let the door unlock. I have my hot water and I press the unlock on the key. A miracle happens and it unlocks the car. I have to pause here and Thank The Lord and explain in more detail for you. The unlock on the key NEVER works. I have tried it so many times before this night and it has never done anything. I open the passenger door and try to open the driver door. No go. I climb over into the driver seat. I try to open the driver door again. Will not budge. The car does start and I am on my way home. It has been a bad day and this scare has put me in a bad space emotionally. I call and talk to Janet for a minute. I can’t begin to tell you how great it was just to hear her voice.

I stop at the Post Office. The driver side door now opens. I get out and while keeping the door open I try to use the key in the lock again. This time it locks. I can’t get it to unlock. I take the key out and reach in and press the main unlock button which should unlock all the doors. Nothing happens. I try again and still nothing. At this point I decide that it would be bad to close the driver door so I get back. Once in the car the alarm goes off. I put the key into the ignition and start the car. Now on every car I have had starting it with the correct key always turned the alarm off. Oh, not this time. I am sitting in the car with it running and the alarm going off. I start driving and the alarm is still going. Thank goodness as I pull out of the Post Office the alarm turns off. I get home and have to work each door open from the inside to make sure they are unlocked. Once all doors have been tested twice for being unlocked and opening them I close the driver door. I try pressing the unlock button on the key about 20+times with nothing. This just reinforces the miracle of the one time unlock so I could get home.

I go inside defeated and start getting ready for bed. Ready for this day to be over. Janet calls me back to comfort me, and I think to make sure I did make it home.  Always makes me feel better to talk with her.

Hoping tomorrow is better.

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Cowboy breakfast

Transferred everything to the BMW this morning. The door handle has to be broken on the driver side. All other doors worked fine, but the driver door will not open from the outside. It is 6:00 AM. I have opened the driver door through the passenger side. All the lights are off except my neighbor’s car lights. When a lot of really loud barking starts. So dark I can’t see anything. First thought was wolf, then I remembered that wolves don’t bark. My neighbor shouts that he don’t know who’s dog it it. We are both ready to jump in our respective cars when I see something reflective which was now in the dog’s mouth and it runs off. Later I found out that a neighbor down the hill walks a black lab. Guess she was out for an early morning walk.

Went to Cowboy’s for the Friday men’s prayer breakfast. Mom would be happy, I had grits. Found out that the owners of Cowboys are from Georgia. Breakfast was good and the discussion was good. Talked about obedience. As part of the discussion we talked about that good and bad actions have repercussions. We too often don’t think about things in that light before we do things. We discussed the line about obedience is better than sacrifice. We are going to be reading a book called “Risk – Are you willing to trust God with everything”. Going forward we will read the chapter beforehand and be prepared to discuss as a group and the pastor will be more of a facilitator and not giving the message.

Set a “video date” with Janet. It was sooooo nice to see and talk with her. A great cap for the week. I have to do some research about a flight and cat cargo. Yeah Google Hangouts. Really was so good to see Janet while talking to her.

Someone from the engineering team went into the park and shared these pictures of the snow and a wolf pack. I was not there. I an getting the dates sorted out for my trip to the interior of the park. Was thinking it was going to be next week, but I think it will get pushed another week now.