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Forum Fools Hall of Fame Inductees

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 to close the forum if I didn’t change my banner.
  • Trish–like, omigod!, my fridge is, like, broken, y’know?
  • James–there’s something wrong with his refrigerator…VERY wrong!
  • fvon–asks what to do about his backache…in an appliance repair forum?
  • dolton-percy–locked is cat in his microwave oven and somehow it’s my fault?
  • Mrs. Charles Corey–needed her oven fixed, and I think something else, too…

    Natalie Cervello–uses her “psychic gift” to perceive that her fridge compressor is about to self-destruct.

  • Dizzy-Dazey–can’t stop whining and babbling long enough to fix her washer.
  • Steve–filing a lawsuit against Whirlpool because he was injured while using his washer in a very, umm, unusual way.
  • Priscilla–her washer ate her bra and she hates men.
  • Scrub Daddy–trying to repair a very personal small appliance.
  • Mr. Harvey–Oops! Looks like Grandpa forgot his prozac again.

Live Help Update

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.

Hillstomping Update

Hillstomping Update

...and I just took a really good dump, too!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 both Jenning’s Peak and Sandwich Dome in a nine-mile, four-hour walking meditation therapy hike. I feel better now.


Forum Update

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 to refer this site.




get this gear!

Ok then.

Forum Update

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 really good news: it comes with its very own pop-up window! Yeah, baby! Ooo, it’s so cool, I wrote a haiku about it. Wanna hear it? Here it goes…


the bamboo reveals all

New popup window.
Refer this site to a friend.
It’s quid pro quo, yo.

Hillstomping Update

...so we're up on the Wildcat Ridge and there's this insane old guy strutting around like a rooster.

Got the rest of the pictures in for the Franconia Ridge hike and for the Wildcat D and Carter Dome hike. Check ’em out, yo.

Speaking of hillstomping, Ouzo and me are taking off for the White Mountains again tomorrow for a couple days. We’ll leave tomorrow (Wed.) late morning, hike somewhere, then we’ll stay overnight at the Cold River campground on Rte 113 by the Main border. Then on Thursday, we’ll do a full day hike somewhere and be home for dinner. Depending on how beat up I feel, I may be online for live help again later Thursday night.

Forum Update

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, I found that the ginseng supplement greatly enhances endurance on the trail. After a killer hike, I swear by the Physique Workout Maximizer for speeding recovery. I also use it as a meal supplement when I’m on the trail for several days backpacking. And the glucosamine supplement has practically eliminated the sometimes excruciating knee pain I used to get.

But in addition to doing your body a favor, your purchase supports this free appliance repair website. Thanks!

Hillstomping Update

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

But the Samurai wants you to know that even though he spends as much time in the White Mountains as Mrs. Samurai will permit, he’s always thinking of his loyal grasshoppers. Why, here he is at the peak of Mt. Tom on his cell phone, counselling a grasshopper on the fine art of repairing a Scrotum Scrubber 2000:

Samurai Appliance Repair Man:
A beacon of hope in your time of appliance despair.

Anyway, I’m back, I’m black, and I’m madder than hell! Ok, I’m not really black. And I’m not particularly mad, either. But I really am back and I’ll available for live help, hangin’ out at Hodji’s Scuttlebutt Café, or spreading hate and disinformation in the Samurai School of Appliantology. Or, you can call me on my cell phone, the number is… oh, DAMN, I just remembered I gotta go pull hair outta the drain, or something. Later.

Hillstomping Update

Hooo-WHEEE, another kick-ass Hell-stomp yesterday! This one was in the Carter Range of the White Mountains. Our intrepid entourage of four humans and two canines bagged three more peaks on The List, Wildcat A, Wildcat D, and Carter Dome, in an 8½ hour, 15-mile bone-crushing endurance hike. Film at eleven.

I’ve posted some pictures from our two previous Hell-stomps on Franconia Ridge (more pics coming on another roll to be developed) and Mts. Willey, Field, and Tom.

Today, I’ll be hanging out here, catching up on website work and soothing sore muscles and tendons with beer. Lots of beer.

I’ll be available for live help during my semi-lucid moments.