gatorcast from paul smith

I’ve had this craftsman gas blower for a long time.  I think more than 14 years…  Last year I took it apart to fix the choke.  I basically broke the plastic lever off.  So I cut a hole in the case and now ‘manually’ set the choke.  At the time it was a big  job and I thought I disassembled most of it.  Not.

Well, the pull cord broke and I let it sit for a few months and last Sunday I decided to ‘fix’ it to save money.  And since it has been a reliable machine I thought it was the right thing to do.    You would not believe what I had to do to replace the $3.56 pull cord. Yep, take it completely apart.

Here it is at the point where I could actually insert the new cord.  Notice the number of parts!! ;->

Ok, here it is back together 3 hours later.  And it works better than ever.

I want one! lol

~Paul

I listen to this Podcast and I’m pretty much in the middle of the demographic.. Married White Male from the USA, oh, and between 35-44.

I also like the presentation from Google Docs.  I am partly posting this to see how the presentation looks in my blog and how it may be used in my software.

Like millions this morning we found that Santa left the Smith’s their very own wii. 

Tonight I am babysitting a server.  It likes to randomly reboot. :>  Which is not good for servers.  Right now I booted with a Dell diagnostic CD and I’m running memory test Loop 2 of 4.  I’ve been here for 2 hours and really not sure if I want to stick around for the 3 hr test.  All good so far.  Its a Dell PowerEdge 1650 server running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition.  It has 1 GB of ram and RAID configured 80 GB SCSI drives.  It is a Pentium III 1.8 mhz processor.

I setup my laptop and plugged it into the network.  Funny how you can see the previous post below in the picture.