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Movie: Shadow Magic
We curled up for a rest day to watch this, wanting something light. It was just right for that. Despite a predictable plot and characters, it is charmingly done and has some interesting historical and cultural perspective on the arrival of western culture in China in the form of cinema.
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Owen’s River Gorge
Ann, Ted, Roy, and I met at the gorge for my first session there since the one that put me out for three weeks with an ankle injury. It was bound to be trying. My ankle started hurting again on the hike in, or was I just imagining it? I decided to try Crowd Pleaser…
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Wagon Wheel
We had a nice little bouldering session with Ted & Greg, then stayed to watch Leonids by the rising full moon until Ann remembered she had left carrots in the oven. That inspired a hasty retreat home, where we found the smell of carmelizing vegetables wafting through the neighborhood.
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Granite Knob
We were going to meet Roy & others for climbing today, but he had family visiting and we ended up on our own again. We had already agreed on Granite Knob, so that’s where we headed. We warmed up on Nervous Tension (5.8 ), my first time leading it. It’s a good climb for getting…
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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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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…