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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

 
I love when you've been overdoing it and you decide "OK. Time to put away laundry, take out trash, do dishes, and then go get groceries," and your body goes "OR! You can take a nap. I think you are going to take a nap." Fuck you, body, I've got stuff that needs doing.
 
There's a sketchy dude whose thing, apparently, is to troll around the Home Depot parking lot in a silver minivan, asking people if they're interested in a home theater system.
 
 
I should've made my lawnmower posts in my thread. Since the others are here, I'll add this: Had to mow lawn this weekend. HAD to. Of course it was too wet Saturday so I got to it this afternoon. Got an OK start but killed it on tall grass once and fought with the quirky idle for the rest of the attempt. When things are going well I can get the yard banged out in a little over 4 hours. Today I managed to get about 4% of it cut in 2 hours. At one point I gave up and did something else, hoping the engine would cool off or something. At first that seemed to help but then it wouldn't stay running again. Since I had a little light before bedtime I decided to take one last try and couldn't even get it to start anymore. By this point I'd done everything I could think of with the carb with no luck, so I was resigned to taking it to the repair guys Monday (along with everything else I need to do Monday) but before I did it occurred to me to check the sparkplug. I just put a new one in a few months ago so it should've been fine. Wrong. Heavy with black soot. Of course most of my cleaning stuff is over at the other place so I cleaned it as best I could and this seemed to fix it...for about 15 seconds. Then it died again and wouldn't restart. So I pulled the plug again and tried to get more crud off it. Got the mower to start and stay running but not running well and by this point it was dark out so here I sit.
 
Got everything that HAD to be mowed mowed. Grabbed the old sparkplug and soaked it in mineral spirits and sprayed it with some Super-WD40 stuff while working on it with a toothbrush I remembered I had laying around. Scraped off some carbon with my knife, and washed the air filter with Dawn dish soap and water (it's a foam pad and it's old enough that Lowe's didn't have any replacement filters in stock). I still don't understand how the carb adjusts. There's a little spring that attaches to a cam on the throttle linkage. The other end is hooked to a "T" bracket on the engine cover. The top of the "T" has 3 holes so maybe you adjust the throttle by which hole you hook the spring to? Other thing I've decided is I get the gas-rich idle when I hit something like a root or a rock. I figure it must slow/stop the blade long enough to... get the spark and the fuel out of sync? That's as far as I get. I've got a couple tricks I do to try to get the idle to reset but none of them is guaranteed. I think when I tilt the mower up into a "wheelie" position while the tank isn't full it prevents gas from getting into the carb and...gives a chance to burn up the excess gas? I dunno. Because it's still not a sure thing. Lately I'll get the RPMs up where they should be and then when I lower the front wheels back down and mow a few feet it goes back to the slow idle.
 
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