Live Help Update
I’m off to the White Mountains again tomorrow (Wed.) for another romp on the schist. This time we’re bagging Mount Moriah, another one on The List. I won’t be online at all during the day, but probably late evening when I get back depending on how beat up I feel. [...]

And now, for your reading pleasure, here are the current Forum Fools Hall of Fame inductees–selections from some of the online weirdos I occasionally have to deal with in the forum: (Note: best viewed with a beer)

Kitchen Fools

Laundry Fools

Small Appliance Fools

Moostafa–likes animals and children in a very, umm, special way.
Dierdre Holmes–”PETA” activist threatened [...]

Just moved into a house or you’re renting a place and you can’t find any of the manuals to your appliances? Ahh, Grasshopper, unforrow that brow and unbunch those panties because you can get replacement owner’s manuals for most major appliances, usually for free and conveniently online, too.

Maytag
Includes Maytag, Magic Chef, [...]

Live Help Update
I’m heading up to EMS this afternoon for some hiking supplies. After I get back, I’ll be online and available for live help later this afternoon and into the evening. In the meantime, don’t be bashful about posting your most intimate appliance woes in the forum. Talk to you later.

So, Old Betsy just ain’t keeping the beer cold anymore and she’s making more noise than Grandpa on the toilet. You’ve had enough and you’re ready to go buy a new fridge. You surf the the web to see what’s out there and now you’re really confused. So many brands, so many [...]

This goofy website,
listed as a Blog of Note.
Domo, Blogger crew!

There are many brands of commercially available detergents out there and they all SUCK. Why do they suck? Because they all contain fillers–inert, abrasive crap added to the detergent mix simply to take up space and to help clean your clothes or dishes by the abrasive action of the added silicates (sand). [...]

Did you know that the typical top loading washer uses 46 gallons of water per full load of wash vs. the typical front loader using 12 (that’s right, count ‘em, 12) gallons? In addition to the substantial water savings with a front loading washer, you’ll also use less detergent per load of wash and [...]

Hillstomping Update
Ahhh, great hike in the Sandwich Range today! This one was a serenade, no, a symphony of beauty and serenity: perfect hiking weather, knee-friendly trail, expansive views, diminimis blood-sucker activity–a stark contrast to that trail-abortion-that-lived at Evans Notch a couple days ago. And only half the drive time, too! Bagged [...]

Whirlpool is recalling the door latch wiring in their dishwashers with model numbers beginning with DU8, DP8, DU9, and GPD. An example model number affected by this recall would be DU8700XY-1. The problem is the wire harness in the door latch can overheat and possibly cause a fire. Whirlpool has issued a [...]

This topic comes up a lot in the forum in various ways, some of them pretty bizarre. In my tireless efforts to help my precious grasshoppers achieve ultimate appliance satori, I’ve put together this handy list of common sources of fridge noises.

Some of the newer-design compressors produce a higher pitched sound which can be [...]

Ok, it’s HumanClick’s turn to take a dump. It won’t even connect to the internet so live help is down until they get it fixed. The other thing it’s doing is not ringing me up when someone clicks the Live Person icon when it showed I was online. So you’d just sit [...]

That hike sucked! Over 10 miles of almost pure hell with no rewarding views. I didn’t even take a single picture. Now that I’m back home, I’m applying the cleansing power of beer to purge the memory of this hike from my mind. Mmm…beer! But the good news: since I’m [...]

Forum Update
Ok, even I couldn’t stand that damn popup window. That thing was like Jason, it just would not die. After running it for about two hours, I was about to gnash my teeth on my monitor screen. But you can still click on the Pass-It-On button here and in the forum [...]

Forum Update
It’s shameless self-promotion time here at Fixitnow.com. Actually, I’d like you to do the promoting by telling your friends about this website. You may notice a new button in the upper right hand side of each page in the Samurai School of Appliantology. That’s my Recommend-It button. And here’s the [...]

Oh, I know what you’re saying, you’re saying, “Yo, Samurai, how stupid do you think we are that you think you gotta tell us how to load our friggin’ dishwasher?” Ahh, Grasshopper, did you know that improperly loading your dishwasher is one of the most common causes for having food and spit and slime [...]

If you take vitamin supplements, the brand can really make a big difference. If your vitamins don’t seem to be doing anything for you or, worse yet, make you feel sick right after you take them, then you need to check out Shaklee vitamins.
As an avid hiker and backpacker in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, [...]

Forum Update
Moostafa has been inducted into the Forum Fools Hall of Fame for his love of animals and children above and beyond the call of reason.
Congratulations, Moostafa!

Live Help Update
We’re heading over to some friend’s house tonight to imbibe liberally on fine, imported fermented grain beverages. If I’m online at all tonight for live help, it’ll be much later and I’ll be half-baked.

Tim finally posted his cool pics from our latest peak-bagging exploits. Check ‘em out!

Mts. Willey, Field, and Tom, 6/27/2002
The Mts. Osceola, 6/20/2002
Wildcat A, Wildcat D, Carter-Dome, 07/16/2002

But the Samurai wants you to know that even though he spends as much time in the White Mountains as Mrs. Samurai will permit, [...]