Monday, August 19, 2002
They Break in Threes
What a weekend!
I finally got the lawnmower back. As it turns out, it had a clogged air filter. Who knew that mowers had air filters?
Anyway, I mowed the yard for about thirty minutes when the engine suddenly died. When I tried to restart it, a jet of flame erupted from the engine! Undaunted by the prospect that the mower does indeed have a gas tank and potentially could be as lethal as a Ford Pinto, I attempted to start it again. Subsequent attempts led to a massive oil leak, which, the lawn mower repair man said later, "is not good".
So the mower ended up back in the shop, and the lawn got another 10-15% done. The slowest mow in history. This morning, luckily, we were awoken by a lawn service cutting out neighbors lawn, with a riding mower capable of decimating a forest of pine trees. It made short work of the jungle that is our back yard.
Of course, things always break in threes. We got the new memory for the computer, but apparently our OS cannot handle so much memory, so we will need to load Windows 2000 to use the memory. The home ethernet i still not working, apparently the long cable I ran from the living room to the office under the carpet is faulty. In addition, the Ethernet card in the old computer is dead. Finally, the keyboard plug for that computer broke, finalizing my desire to buy a new computer as soon as possible.
Speaking of buying, we got out of the house early on Saturday to hit the garage sales. As luck would have it, we found an entire neighborhood of yard sales, approximately 40. We found a lot of toys for Parker, a few yards of fabric, a few cds (Paula Abdul for 25 cents), had some Samosas and cokes from a family of enterprising Pakistani and two Children (respectively), and saw a girl who was a dead ringer for Jennifer Keaton (Tina Yothers) from Family Ties. Curly blonde hair, studded belt three times two big, sequined shirt, everything!
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