in stead of spending the day off with my son and wife, I spent almost 8 hours trying to fix our home power generator which had been broken for days. I had to fix it because its almost impossible to stand the heat of the Iraqi summer. To make things worse, the local power generator that we get power from is broken and it wouldn't work until coming Monday, so, to fix or not to fix that was the question, I started my war with the Chinese piece of scrap at 12 pm At the very end of the war, I found out that I had to change the carburetor. I changed it and yehhhhhh, the piece of scrap is working properly. It was 8 pm. Since I won the war, I started shouting and giving orders " turn on the refrigerator first and wait for three minutes and then turn one the air cooler and wait for another three minutes and then turn on the water pump. At last we could have some cool air and have comfortable dinner.

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Excellent work battling the generator. You are a man of many talents:)
Posted by: ljm | July 21, 2007 at 11:07 AM