End of the Week (AKA All Hail....) - Episode 6

Ahhhhh, Thursday at last.

Been a while since I even looked at this page. "Surprisingly", no feedback on my last post. Hey fuzz, you said lotsa people read the stuff here. Well, maybe not my posts. Thanks for your feedback uncle fuzz.

Any way, me and dhaya fixed our DVD player last night. I was out in the rain two times trying to find a capacitor and some tools to get it fixed. Finally after taking apart a trimmer, mini radio, PS 1, CD-ROM and a remote, a cordless phone had one of those capacitors in it. I tried my best to pop it out without damaging it, and in vain ended up screwing up the job by detaching one of its sides completely.

But on the grounds of "I won't give up till I get it fixed", I took apart an old P4 power supply to find to my delight, the same type of capacitor (My god people.....you cant even buy one of these little capacitor bastards in Male').

Then I went out in the rain again to get me a soldering gun, and some lead to detach and attach the little bastard. After much effort, and uncertainity on the part of my wife, "We" (meaning me my wife and my tiny little baby) got it done.

Now at last I come to my final happy ending, where I actually got the damned player to function like new. Hip, hip.......lol. Well any way, perfect ending to a lousy week. Cheers all.

Ps. Wanna guess how I found out that the capacitor needed replacement? Beleive it or not, i typed in "DVD player power light keeps blinking" on google (via my phone), and voila the top search result was exactly what I needed.

ALL HAIL GOOGLE, the mighty information databank (plus still the best porn and crack finder ever).