Does 'and he's an engineer so he even came over and set it up for me and had it running for like two hundred dollars so i thought that' exist in a separate context from 'It took me hours to figure out how to set it up myself.', without logical interdependence?
and he's an engineer so he even came over and set it up for me and had it running for like two hundred dollars so i thought that###It took me hours to figure out how to set it up myself.