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Olancha Pass
With the Subaru temporarily off the road, we were looking for hikes we could get to in Ann’s Volvo. The Olancha Pass trailhead turned out to be perfect, with Sage Flat road providing pavement most of the way. We hadn’t hiked in a while, and our distance estimates were a bit short. We started at…
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Movie: The Salton Sea
It may be strange to watch a movie based on murder and tweaker culture on one’s honeymoon, but that’s what we did. This movie has a fairly run-of-the-mill revenge plotline, but the offbeat character portrayals bring it back to life. Pooh Bear, the methamphetamine dealer who lost his nose through overuse of his own product,…
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assertion failed
(gxine:3834): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 225 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion `hash_table != NULL’ failed (gxine:3834): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Internal error: the configuration system was not initialized. Did you call _gnome_vfs_configuration_init? (gxine:3834): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 225 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion `hash_table != NULL’ failed (gxine:3834): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Internal error: the configuration system was not initialized. Did you call…
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My Wedding
It’s done! I’m married. It went amazingly well. For details, visit the wedding page.
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Last post as a single hobo
I’ve left home, and when I return I’ll be married. People are on the road and in the air from coast to coast on their way to Joshua Tree. Calls are starting to come in, and I forgot to bring my phone charger, but otherwise it looks like the show will go on…
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renting my woes away
After calling every auto shop in town, poking around under the dashboard, and hours of subaru googling, the solution has become apparent. We’ll be going to our wedding in a rental car, and worry about our poor subaru when we return…
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Modern Auto Errors
Here’s a situation where I want an error message and can’t get it. My ’96 Subaru Legacy’s “check engine” light has come on, and some googling suggested that I might be able to retrieve an error code that would tell what is wrong. After reading some instructions and making several trips out to peer under…
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AT&T drops the bytes
For those, including myself, who have unable to access my site for a few days, we can thank AT&T for mistakenly dropping iAdvantage, the biggest Internet Service Provider in Asia, from their network on Friday.
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The plot sickens
I fear a grand conspiracy is being unveiled. The are no Subaru mechanics in town, and the import shop that has done work on my car for me is closed until August 4. Dennis is on vacation. Maybe it’s time to call Click and Clack.
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The game begins
There five days to go until my wedding day. I will be doing several hundred miles of driving, including playing chauffeur for my guests. Late Saturday night, very visibly, and somehow ominously, the “check engine” light began to glow in my Subaru. So the planned things are starting to happen, and also the unplanned. I…