Big Screen Blows-up

Deeds-So I was watching the BYU Football game and they were playing so horrible that it broke my TV. At first I thought the satellite was going out because the picture at the top was starting to twitch. But then within an hour the whole picture became scrambled. I tried the other inputs and found it wasn't the satellite but my big screen tv had broken. I was not a happy camper at the thought of repairing it sounded expensive and replacing it was out of the question with our current budget. However I have a friend at church, B.J. Mitchell, who is supposedly good with electronics. I mentioned my problem to Jarom Olson at church he said that B.J. was good and had fixed his robotic lawnmower. Encouraged I talked to B.J. and told him of the problem. He said to email him the TV models/specs and he would research it. So I emailed him the details along with a description of the TV problems. He came over a few nights later with a box of electric parts, soldering iron, and a stack of papers which he said was the service manual that he had downloaded. I must say I was skeptical that someone who tinkered with electronics would be able to fix a complex HD TV. But I had only expensive options so I was willing to let him take a crack at it. He basically took the whole back end of the tv apart looking for the power circuit board. He found it and said looks like we found the problem you have two blown capacitors. I did not know what a capacitor was except that a flux capacitor made time travel possible. But he showed me a picture of the circuit board he had downloaded with a common problem logged for my tv and it showed two battery like things on the circuit board with goook oozing out of them. He showed me my circuit board and I had the same thing. To my amazement he not only had capacitors in his box of electronic parts but he had two that matched the electrical specs. So he set to work on his soldering iron and took out the two bad capacitors on the circuit board and replaced them with the two new ones. He then started putting the tv's back together. We fired it up and to my astonishment the TV now works perfectly! I thanked him profusely and asked him what I good do for him, He said he would take payment in food. So we will be having his family over for dinner in the near future. While he was here he played the pinball machine and he now wants to take a crack at fixing some of the lingering issues it has...YIPPPEEE!!!

Thoughts-I really like doing things with Julie. A couple of weekends ago we were doing our annual garage deep clean so that we can fit both cars in during times of bad winter weather. The kids love doing this because we pull everything out and organize it back in. Which means they play with everything that has accumulated in a big pile in the garage while we organize it. So we spent a couple of hours doing this while kids rode bikes in and out. Julie and I screwed in some hooks to hang chairs and strollers. We just enjoy doing things like this together and it always makes a big job like fun. After we were done I said I needed to go get gas for the van so we could go to church on sunday and Julie said "Can I come with you?" I said "Sure" so we went on a quick date to the gas station. I pumped that gas while Julie got me a Slushy. I like slurpee dates with JULIE!

Words-I have finished another audio book, called Ship of Ghosts about the survivors of the USS Houston that was sunk in WWII and their enslavement on the death railroad in Bhurma during the war. I have been doing all WWII books up to this point.