Note: You might want to read part 1 and part 2 first. I was tracking the monitor and the accessories packages as they traveled through the UPS systems, so I knew when the packages arrived. I could also have told because John Harlan (johnslcdrepair, johnhis11_computers, xhd3000repairman43560 and computerguru43560 on eBay) immediately opened a dispute with PayPal: [...]
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Shame on you, John Harlan – Part 2 (of 5)
January 24, 2011
Okay, Gateway wasn’t going to be any help so I turned to the Interwebs. As you might recall from the start of this saga, I was not the only person who had the flickering monitor problem. Real Geeks had troubleshooted (troubleshot?) the problem to a specific chip on a specific board in the monitor. Apparently [...]
NoPoo Experiment
September 12, 2010
Lauren’s not the only one who can do experiments. Having run out of even reasonably useful things to do this Summer, I was reduced to conducting experiments on my own body. Sometime during last winter I read that if you wash your hair everyday, your scalp “noticed” that there wasn’t enough oil around and ramped [...]
Lawn mowing and the Muppet cake
August 22, 2010
So, I had one big project for this weekend – working on a video for my parents (shhh – don’t tell them) – but I kept getting sidetracked. The house is a wreck, and I had a few mini-projects spring up unexpectedly. The first was getting out my wedding dress. I read last year’s post [...]
Mood lighting
July 29, 2010
I’m pretty sure that the only members of my family who still look at our website on a regular basis are my mom & my sister (Hi guys). So I’m going to post a little video that is really meant for the Sommerer Family Website (sorry about stealing your family motto, Hofmans). My Aunt Naomi [...]
Water always wins
June 27, 2010
We’ve had some giant black ants invading the kitchen, and the traps didn’t seem to be working. Lloyd was on a rampage to get all surfaces clear of Ant Attractants, and even went so far as to pull the fridge out so we could clean back there. Unfortunately, when we pushed the fridge back, we [...]



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