tinker gnome or redneck?

Well today I went in to work because it was Change Management Sunday. I got to work a bit after 7am and left a bit after 1pm. This is especially sad we were supposed to go trap shooting after we got done at 11am. Note we didn't get done. Something didn't work with a MSSQL Server Service Pack, and a dependent set of servers couldn't come back up til it was fixed. Probably just as well we didn't go with the high wind advisories and all, the clays are hard enough to hit when the wind gusts aren't pushing them around.

So I get home to discover Ed's been a puke machine while I was gone. So.. after hanging a new shelf and clothing rod for toad in the laundry room. I went to cleaning
the carpets. I got this rug shampooer vacuum machine from Heidi when she moved out west. It works great except it has a tremendous leak, so if you put the tank of solution on you have to keep it moving until you're done, or if you stop you have to pull the tank out. Well after cleaning all of my room, except the one corner that will have to be done by hand I decided to try fixing the machine. I dismantled it so I could see where most of the tubing went and feel where it went when I couldn't see it. I dagnosed the problem as being related to the secondary tube out of the tank. The primary tube supplies the bit that sprays the floor when you push the lever on the handle.

The leak turns out to have been in the supply valve for the upholstry attachments. I don't know if Heidi ever had them, but I don't. The tubing all the way down from the tank appeared not to leak, but the valve wasn't shutting so solution (or water in my test case just poured out of it). I went looking around the hosue for something to plug the secondary outlet on the valve plate. Well I guess I must have been disappointed about not going shooting cause I sacrificed an ear plug. I have a handful of these coated plastic foam ones rather than the regular foam ones. Well now I have a handful minus one. Plugged it up and TA DA! I couldn't blow air out of the valve with my mouth. Then I test fit it to the water... still dry. So now the whole thing is reassembled with some dye in the water and sitting in the tub so we can look for leaks. It had held the water for 15 minutes last I checked. Which is like 13 minutes longer than when it was leaking.

So? does this make me a tinker gnome? or a redneck (who else would do appliance repair with shooting supplies?) or both?