When Pam's gone I can stay up as late as I want. Which might mean 8 p.m. tonight. I'm really sleepy! We left for the airport at about 4:15 a.m. and I was back to the house about 5:45. Going back to bed didn't seem like an option so I reworked Sunday's sermon (it still isn't right) and then pruned the plants and shrubs around the patio. One thing led to another and at 7:30 p.m. I'm wondering how much longer I can keep my eyes open.
I took Louise up the hill on an errand at lunchtime and got stuck again. Same thing: it runs fine, I go into the store, and when I come out it dies as soon as I give it any throttle. Pull the air cleaner and the choke is completely closed, and shouldn't be. It took me 30 minutes to make the 5 minute drive and most of that was spent pulled over to the shoulder.
Why does the choke stick closed only after the car has been shut off but not long enough to cool down completely?
I could get it to come open if I forced it by hand, and in the process I could feel the linkage "snap" past some kind of resistance. Hmmmm.
I think I have it figured out. When I finally got home I parked Louise in the garage and then came out after about the same amount of time. Messed with the choke mechanism and had an "aha" moment. I think that when I rebuilt the carb I put the pin on the choke cover on the wrong side of the choke spring tab.
Yeah, I know. That means nothing to you but it would explain everything. Basically the choke was acting the opposite of what it should. Instead of the spring pushing it open when it was hot the spring was pushing it closed.
Do I dare drive it into town tomorrow morning for my meeting? If it isn't fixed I'll spend all day trying to get home.
Check back with me tomorrow night.
I don't understand the rioting mobs in the Middle East. This can't really be about a low budget home made movie, can it?
Is this religious fundamentalism carried to an absurd extreme or is it rooted in something within Arab culture? As it spreads across the region those seem to be the two common threads. Today the violence spread to British and Swiss embassies, which suggests a hatred of things western.
Sect. of State Hillary Clinton said today that the people of the Arab Spring didn't trade the "tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob." But it seems they did.
In the world of political correctness it's very bad form to suggest a structural problem with one of the world's most populous religions or a specific racial/cultural group. But history, including these most recent events, gives one pause.
I had a coffee conversation with one of the recent new-comers to Pathway. OK, I had a smoothie and they had some fancy kind of tea thing. I like these opportunities to get to know people better than we have time for on a Sunday morning...when my head is totally into my preaching/teaching.
But now it's time for chocolate cake out of the pan and BED.
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