Long Day....Great Ending

Yesterday, after I got out of school, I went home to work on my car. I drive a 1994 mercury topaz. we like to call it a ford topaz because its been wrecked so many times, it has a ton of parts on it from a ford tempo. Lately it has been putting along only when I accelerate, it idles like its fine. Or when you first start it up and rev up rpm a little bit, you can see the black smoke coming out to the exhaust. You can smell the its burning rich. I tried to change all spark plugs and wires, and got nothing. yesterday I went and bought a new fuel filter, because when I took the old one off, it we extremely clogged. And again that didn't help. So I drove to the auto parts store and got carb cleaner and fuel injector cleaner. I took the air manifold off rev up the rpm again and let that suck in some carb cleaner. But that did not help. So thinking someone put something in my gas tank. I put fuel injector cleaner in it, and as of now that helped none whats so ever. But on top of all of this, my Cadillac converter dropped down and was kinda dragging on the ground, it didn't break, just unhooked. So I went and got some plumbers wire, I put a car jack under the converter and raised it up and tied it higher. After that I got a little exited because after spending all day working on this car, I thought I had fixed something. But then it came time to drive it. At that time I had figured out that I raised the Cadillac converter up to high and I raised it into the clutch. So now when I drive it, the clutch is a little bit harder to shift. After all of this, my girlfriend stops by to tell me her kid is sick so I went with her to take him to the doctor. When that got over, I ended my day the way everyman would want to. I went fishing.