February 2003

Hillstomping Update: Carter Notch

February 25, 2003 Hillstomping Update

Got my pictures developed from our winter backpacking trip last week to Carter Notch in the White Mountains where we stayed at the AMC Carter Notch hut. I went with my budrow, Dave, from PA. That was by far the best snowshoeing trip of the season, even if we did have to cut it short [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: Dryers and Fires

February 24, 2003 Dryer Repair

One of the ways that dryers can start household fires is by igniting the excess lint that accumulates around the motor, burner shroud (for gas dryers) and cabinet interior. Lint is composed of very small, dry clothing particles which includes cotton and polyesters–both very good fires starters. Polyesters are particularly pernicious fires starters and are [...]

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Takin’ Off to the Great White North

February 17, 2003 Hillstomping Update

Word up: you won’t have ol’ Samurai to kick around after this Wednesday. My budrow from PA is driving up here to New Hampster on Wednesday and we’re heading up to the White Mountains for a five-day winter backpacking trip. We’ll be staying at the AMC high mountain huts at Carter Notch and Lonesome Lake. [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: “How Much is a New One?”

February 17, 2003 General Appliance Wisdom

One of the most frequently asked questions we hear from our customers when contemplating whether or not to repair their appliance is, “How much is a new one?” This article gives you some insight into the major appliance market that will help you make the best decision. The first thing you need to realize is [...]

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Take Back the Power!

February 16, 2003 Compooting

One week, I’m getting lots of traffic and my website is ranking high in the search engines. Then, the next week, the search engines do this mysterious thing called "re-indexing" and traffic drops off to a trickle. High tide and low tide, rain and shine. It’s a fickle game without any discernible rhyme or reason. [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: Dishwasher Drainology

February 15, 2003 Dishwasher Repair

Your dishwasher sounds like it’s working up a storm, draining all that yucky dirty water out, but you open the door and all that dirty water is still there. Houston, we have a problem. Ok, grasshopper, go grab you a cold one and hang on for a magical mystery tour into what causes dishwasher draining [...]

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Live Appliance Repair Help Gift Certificates

February 14, 2003 Website Updates

Here it is Valentine’s Day and you’re in the doghouse because you forgot to get that significant someone that special gift that says, "Hey, I care. Now what’s for dinner?" Many of you fixit dudes have emailed me with much weeping and gnashing of teeth about your dilemma, turning to the Samurai to offer the [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: The Hard Facts About Hard Water

February 13, 2003 General Appliance Wisdom

Complaints about the washer or dishwasher not cleaning very well are one of the more common ones I get asked by grasshoppers at my website and from paying grasshoppers in the field–also known as customers. The first thing I always like to figger out in these cases is how hard the water is. What’s water [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: Use and Care Manuals

February 12, 2003 General Appliance Wisdom

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, Crosley, Norge, [...]

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Appliance Service Calls

February 12, 2003 General Appliance Wisdom

I’ve always had a bushy head of hair and I usually don’t bother trimming my beard. So, this is how I used to look when I’d go out for a service call: But I starting thinking maybe I was scaring my customers. I dunno, little things, like I go up to the house and knock [...]

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Live Help Update

February 10, 2003 Website Updates

I’ll be online for live help tonight from 7pm to whenever (New Hampster time). "Bring me your tired, your poor, your broken appliances yearning to be fixed."

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Beer Drinking Update

February 8, 2003 Karaoke Lounge

I dunno, she looked pretty fine when I was slamming down the suds last night at the brew pub.

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Live Help Update

February 7, 2003 Samurai Incarnate

I was talking to a grasshopper on live chat the other night and he told me to tell my boss that I was doing a great job. So I shuffled upstairs to my wife and said, "Great job, Hon." I’ve talked to several other people on chat who think Fixitnow.com is a high-budget operation with [...]

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Appliance Tip of the Day: Microwave Oven Know-How

February 5, 2003 Microwave Ovens

Working on your microwave oven? Check out the online microwave repair manual first and you just might find out how to fix it. If not, there’s more detailed help in these two fine references below. If you’re working on an American-made microwave (e.g., Whirlpool, Maytag, etc.) then get the Repair-Master microwave oven repair manual. If [...]

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Phone Sex

February 5, 2003 Karaoke Lounge

So you’ve heard of slamming, right? That’s where a phone company comes along and takes over your long distance service without you knowing it and then slams you with an whopping phone bill. Well, look out, there’s a newer, slimier practice emerging among phone companies called casual billing. Casual billing is similar to slamming in [...]

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