Cycling and Stuff

We had a power failure this morning.  I guess technically it wasn't a failure since the power company called and told us that there would an outage.  It seemed like a good time to test the generator and the feasibility of getting out and running under real circumstances.  What a riot!  I overfilled the tank and caused gas to go back through the carburetor and into the cylinders.  I had to drain the oil and refill it.  The generator seems to know when it'as oil isn't quite right, as it would only run for about a minute.  Anyway, I got it going.  Of course after I got it running and hooked up, the power came back.  So now I have to clean up the patio and driveway where gas/oil mixture has spilled.  Kitty litter to the rescue.