DIY rules (should be part of Jim and Kirbys' books)

[Martin Fooks <MartinFooks@GeoCities.COM>]

1.  If you can't find a screwdriver, use a knife.  If you break off the
tip, it's an improved screwdriver.

2.  Try to work alone, an audience is rarely any help.
 
3.  Despite what you may have been told by your mother, praying and
cursing are both helpful in car repair...but only if you are working
alone.

4.  Work in the kitchen whenever you can...many fine tools are there.
Its warm and dry, and you are close to the refrigerator.

5.  If it's electronic, get a new one, or consult a twelve-year-old.
 
6.  Stay simple minded. Plug it in. Get a new battery. Replace the bulb
or fuse. See if the tank is empty. Try turning it to the "on"switch, or
hide it.

7.  Always take credit for miracles.  If you dropped the trip computer
while taking it out, and it suddenly starts working, you have healed it.

8.  Regardless what people say, kicking, pounding, throwing, and shaking
sometimes DOES help.

9.  If something looks level, it is level.
 
10.  If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

11.  Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it aint
stupid!

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