It’s not a question of if, but when and how bad the next emergency will impact your life. Even the various tentacles of the federal gubmint are urging people to make preparations for at least a 72 hour emergency, but anyone with any common sense is preparing for a much more protracted scenario. [...]

In this fifth Thanksgiving Day of the new millennium, I am filled with gratitude and thanks for cheating death another day. Life is the greatest gift of all and we tend to get so bogged down by the frustrations and minutia of day-to-day living that we lose sight of the bigger picture. That’s [...]

Working Fall Originally uploaded by Zenzoidman.
Driving to an appliance service call, I had to pull over for some, eh hem, essential kidney maintenance. It’s tough trying to repair an oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, or whatever, while your teeth are chattering from excessive abdominal pressure. In [...]

Went out on a service call for an old-style Hotpoint (GE) top-loading washer. Complaint was that it leaked. When the customer called, I explained my fee structure: I charge a flat professional fee of $149 (for most repairs) which includes all trip charges, service call charges, diagnostic fees as well as the [...]

Today is Easter (Pascha) for Orthodox Christians. Millions of Orthodox Christians all over the world are greeting each other with the traditional greeting, “Christ is risen!” And the traditional response, “Indeed He is risen!” In their own language, of course.
For example, in Japanese, the Samurai’s pseudo-native tongue, the greeting is, “Harisutosu hukkatsu!” [...]

Although the Samurai does virtual service calls all over the world through his award-winning website, Fixitnow.com, and through the world-famous Samurai School of Appliantology, he also does service calls in real life!
Many grasshoppers have emailed wondering what a day in the life of the Samurai is like. Presented below is a never-before-seen series of [...]

Psmith wrote:

Superb website, found while looking for pix of my favorite place, Franconia Ridge. Sadly I now live in Texas. But someday I’ll make it back to God’s Own NH…
I will pass this website to many dear friends.
And I will continue to search for my Holy Grail, a source for Blind Faith in Houston………….
Hike On!
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Every morning, I drag my skinny butt outta bed and chase away the previous night’s fermented chugalug with a soy protein drink mix. But with all the old bad press about soy protein, I had doubts about continuing this breakfast restorative.
My wife recently received some medical information on the protein supplement that I’ve come [...]

Many Grasshoppers have written inquiring about the Samurai’s house. Here are a couple pictures of the Samurai’s dojo that should fullfil these voyeuristic requests.
The Samurai’s home from the outside. Plenty of fresh outside air inside the house is one of the secrets of Samurai’s good health!
A peek inside our family room–pardon [...]

The Samurai’s service van for his day job.

A peek inside the back of the Samurai’s service van. Lucky you!

Dr. Samurai makes housecalls with his appliance medic kit.

A rare and privileged peek inside Dr. Samurai’s bag o’ tricks.

M’main tool roll. 86.4% of the repairs I do are made using tools in this [...]

The Samurai Klan bringing Mrs. Samurai home from Franklin Regional Hospital in Franklin, New Hampshire:

You’ve heard them, you love them, you want to BE them…ok, that’s just too weird for words. But you can read the the text of the ads here. For your reading pleasure, the text of the 15-second appliance tips spots I’m running on WNTK talk radio is presented along with supporting links for [...]

Like crimson rays extending from the rising sun, the Samurai’s glory shines all over the globe. Lately, the Samurai was nearly flooded by hundreds of thousands of emails from every country on the planet asking, nay, begging for an autographed picture of the Samurai practicing his appliance repair martial art. Fortunately, a global [...]