Going Back to the Fundamentals

With Summer around the corner things in life get better. As a matter of fact a few weeks ago I bought and old 94 jeep cherokee for a few hundred dollars. My wife and I are all excited for the Summer. Jeep plus Summer means a lot of camping, outdoors, and fun.

Unfortunately as any old car, my Jeep needs some love and care. This week the ignition circuits in the car was not properly working. The car would not start at times. Oh dear, this is what comes with you buy an old car- my wife said- she was right indeed. As any handyman I started to troubleshot the problem. My masculine pride wouldn't let me take it to the mechanic. I tested the circuit, I removed the ignition switch and did other things that took me in total a few hours of my day. No result, I could not find the short. Nevertheless, I had the impression to looked at the main connection for the ignition switch, and surprise surprise, the cord was unplugged.

Sometimes we need to go back to the fundamentals. When we reach a specific level of knowledge and confident in life we like to overthink stuff. Either we have been working for a few years at a job or if we feel we know a lot about cars,  we must start by the fundamentals and find out basic mistakes. Somethings, the easiest fix is the most appropriate for our problems.