Live Help Update
The drought continues up here in Northern New England and today is another dry scorcher. So, I’m taking the nuclear family unit out for some chill time at the lake.
Live help later this evening, after a cold and bubbly liquid dinner. 
Appliance Tip of the Day: "read this first.
Beer Drinking Update
Beer. More than just the sacred nectar of the Samurai, it’s also the secret behind my radiant good health.
Cheers! 
Hillstomping Update
Like Moses from Mt. Sinai, I’m back from our three-day hajj to the mountains — refreshed, renewed, reinvigorated… and with just the right touch of diarrhea. Yea verily, I am born again from the womb of The Mountain, the slightly-bruised fruit of the North Wood’s loins. I have seen the Promised Land; someone stole the milk n’ honey and left piles of schist everywhere. More visual documentation is here.
The highlight of the trip was bagging Mt. Washington, the highest peak in New England, with my camping bud, Dave Yale, and my semper fi canine hiking bud, Ouzo. We summitted via the Tuckerman Ravine Trail and returned via the Nelson Crag and Old Jackson Road Trails for a total mileage of about 12.9823475987 ± 0.987459. Note: the significant digits in the measurement and error terms are not compatible so please consult a pair of calibrated eyeballs before attempting this route yourself. Have a nice day.
Live Help Update
Today we’re hitching up the popup and taking off to the White Mountains for a couple days of camping, hiking, and intense beer drinking. We’re meeting up with our camping buds, the Yales from PA, at Moose Brook State Park. We’ll be back on Tuesday…maybe. Live help? Ain’t gonna be no stinking live help. In the meantime, drop some coinage into the United Samurai Beer Fund, it’s good for your soul. Later days, brah.
Hillstomping Update
Feast your hillstompin’ squinties on these cool pictures from our splendiferous hike up Mt. Chocorua yesterday. Feel the love, yo.
Forum Update
Victory is MINE! Those nazis at AA have raised the white flag 
and are in full retreat with their tails between their pale, skinny legs. Let that be a lesson to anyone foolish enough to threaten the Samurai. 
Hillstomping Update
Beautious hike up Mt. Chocorua today! Perfect weather, de minimis bloodsucker activity, and cool, dry air which made for spectacularly crystal-clear 360° views from the summit. The summit of Mt. Chocorua is a rock tower poking up into the sky giving a vantage point for some of the best views in the White Mountains. Would’ve had pictures to post but the battery in someone’s fancy-ass digital camera was dead because he didn’t recharge it before the hike. 
So, we’ll have to wait for the pictures to be developed from my low-tech, but ever-faithful, Olympus analog camera–probably tomorrow.
The AMC Guide says Mt. Chocorua is the most-photographed mountain in the Whites. Translation: most heavily trafficked. The place was a beehive with people. And for good reason–you get tremendous views for relatively little effort compared to, say, Mts. Willey or Wildcat D. But Chocorua has a sister peak, Middle Sister, that offers views almost as fine but without the crowds. Ouzo and I split off from the other Hillstompers, who headed on down, and we lingered on Middle Sister awhile, enjoying the views unmolested by the hoard.
Ok, time for another brewski. 
Live Help Update
We’re going to hillstomp up Mt. Chocorua tomorrow (Thursday). It’s not on The List but it sure is purdy. So I won’t be online for live help until later in the evening. Be cool, yo.
Featured Forum Guru
Today’s featured forum guru is Moostafa Hakkahalah, the Ayatollah of Appliance Repair. Moostafa comes to us from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he powers his iMac off a camel dung and lime juice battery that he designed himself. It’s exactly that kind of Afghani know-how that makes Moostafa such a valuable guru in the Samurai School of Appliantology. We are indeed fortunate to have a man of his many talents helping out in the forum. You can read more about Moostafa in his profile.
If you need help with an appliance problem, go ahead and post it in the forum. Moostafa is just one of the many fine gurus standing by to lead you to appliance enlightenment.
Forum Update
Well, it was bound to happen eventually: my obsession with beer has offended militant alcoholics. The Assistant Deputy Vice-Adjunct Executive Director for Alcoholics Anonymous has threatened to shut down my website and forum as well as post my home address and phone number on AA’s website unless I remove all references to beer from my website. My bowels are in an uproar and bile is burning the back of my throat. The anxiety has prevented me from sleeping at night or performing my husbandly duties.
Time for another brewski. 
Heading to a friend’s surprise birthday party tonight. 
Should be back and available for live help after about 2200 hrs (New Hampster time). In the meantime, this page should prove to be most inspirational for you.
Editorial Note
Something we’re most proud of here at Fixitnow.com is how many different groups of people we’ve managed to offend in our tireless pursuit of cheap laughs. We’d like to take a moment to acknowledge these groups and thank them for being who they are:
If your group is not on this list, don’t worry–it just means we haven’t gotten to you yet. But rest assured that we are working on it!
Hillstomping Update
Awesome hike up Mt. Moriah yesterday! We feasted on wild blueberries, soaked up the rays and the 360° views on the summit of Mt. Moriah, and threw sticks in the icy water of the Rattle River for the dogs to chase until they started shivering uncontrollably from hypothermia. Check out Tim’s pics of this hike. Part of our hike took us on a section of the Appalachian Trail where we met several AT through-hikers. Now, here’s an unlikely coincidence: I met up with a guy, Jeff, on the trail who was a fellow student in the milestone life-experience AMC Winter Camping workshop, that I’d taken this past winter. He was out for a few days on a backpacking trip at the same time we were dayhiking and we just happened to cross paths on the same freakin’ trail! Now, what are the odds of that happening?
Live Help Update
I’ll be online for live help most of the day…except for when I’m too busy doing fun stuff like wiping that brown liquid out of the trash cans or soaking my toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide and staring at all those fizzy bubbles. Should be online most of this evening, though. Feel the love, yo.
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. 
Ok then, later on, m’bassoo.
