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- A write up on the new H6 spec B Legacy
- A short article on Japanese automakers and their use of European designers (SVX and Legacy are mentioned)
- A comparo of the WRX and new Mustang
- A short mention of their Legacy GT wagon in their long term test fleet with a mention that "the more you push this car, the better it becomes"
Finally, a one-page editorial by David Davis Jr. on his attraction for Subaru and Mercedes-Benz cars. He had very positive things to say about the new GT.
Ken
Anesthesiologists are usually a friendly mellow bunch.
As a patient (or family of a patient) you are your own best advocate. (My advice to all my patients)
Hope he continues to do well Brenda!
tom
Jim
Tom: Great advice. Nice to have a considerate member of the medical profession on this board!
Steve
Steve
They took out the epidural catheter yesterday and he was starting on oral meds plus his IV button. They were to take out the foley catheter a bit later yesterday evening. He will be UP today, at least into a chair. Once he is released he will be at home for a couple weeks, and when he returns to school it's already arranged for him to have someone carry his book bag for about six weeks, and for him to leave his classes about five minutes early so he's not jostled in the hallways.
He will have the bar in place for 2-3 years, and then it will be removed.
Bob - any news about your wife yet???? I know how hard it is to WAIT !!!
I'll be managing service and consulting products in our growing bio-analysis group.
Ken, it counds like you're moving into my little piece of the world. Ironically, I started out working in college at a company that made ceramic capacitors.
BTW I also read the current issue of Automobile and noticed all the Subie press. I liked DED Jr.'s column in particular.
Ed
This morning as I was commuting to the office (a balmy 10 degrees F here, oh thank goodness for seat heaters) I listened to an NPR interview with the doctor who performed the first organ transplant (kidney) 50 years ago this week, and with the donor of that organ (a man who donted the kidney to his identical twin brother). Despite all the noise around (among other things) managed healthcare, bioethics, lawsuits and rumors of lawsuits, and DTC pharma advertising, it helps every once in a while to stop and appreciate the advances made not just in improving patients' lives, but simply in giving people chances to live who may not otherwise have had them.
Ed
You blood & marrow registry donors are heroes in your own right as well!
Cheers!
Paul
Thanks, Ed
As far as organ donation goes, you can't have one (transplantation) without the other (organs), and it works from both sides of the equation. A friend of mine is 5 months post-heart transplant, doing well, and the whole story is truly one of the miracles of faith & science.
Cheers!
Paul
I've completely forgotten what you do for a living. It's fun being part of the Subaru Crew -- there's always someone in some related field of work.
Ken
Ed
I've let you guys know before that I think this is a pretty nice place .. there are lots of web posting boards where people find it easy to forget that there are living, breathing people behind the aliases used .. but I suppose in any forum there are nice guys and 'bad' guys ...
This is about a 'nice' guy that I met through chatting on Yahoo Trivia rooms ... he was a precocious 14-year-old when we first met online, and we've been good 'internet pals' for over six years ... This fine, intelligent, witty young man is now in college and 20 years old. We first met in person this past summer at a BareNakedLadies/Alanis Morisette concert and we had a blast.
He called me yesterday with the sad news that his mother died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. She was only 50 years old. Apparently she had been ill with a 'bad cold' ... a 'viral infection' ... On Sunday she finally went to the ER and while there her heart stopped. They resuscitated and were sending her to a larger hospital, but she never made it.
Not sure why I'm posting it here ... just know you guys will be 'empathetic' .... and it's ok .. everyone doesn't have to reply to this one!
Please accept our heartfelt sorrow, for you and your young friend.
Bob
My condolences to your friend and your self. I hope the new year will be a better time for all.
Mark
Craig
Craig
Condolences, of course.
Grace lost her dad the week before Christmas 1990; I often have to deal with folks who are injured, sick or worse this time of year, as well as the family members involved. We both know how losing someone near holidays feels.
You can cry here on our shoulders anytime.
Peace,
Paul
Oh, how that story hits so close to home. My father-in-law passed away suddenly due to a brain aneurysm three years ago just around this time of the year.
My poor wife was out shopping for Christmas gifts for him when he passed away. No one could get a hold of her so I had to race home to break her the terrible news.
But to end on a positive note, I think your friend is lucky to have you to share the experience with. It's times like this when you really find out who your friends and loved ones are. There's always some light even in the darkest of moments.
Ken
This should be a reminder to all of us that we need to enjoy, if not cherish those around us, because you do not know what could happen tomorrow.
Peace and joy in the Holiday season. Rob M.
How am I? Thanks for asking, Craig! Spent most of today running between specialist, but the terrific news is that the initial results show no cancer. Jury is still out, but something called Sarcoidosis keeps being mentioned. If so, it sounds like something I can live with....
Steve
Steve - Sounds like good news so far. Take care of yourself.
Everyone else - Stay healthy!
DaveM
Brenda: sorry to hear what you've been through, would it make you feel better if I told you the B9SC would be 50.1% yours and 49.9% mine? :-)
Steve: hang in there and have a quick recovery.
Ken: congrats, up one floor is still moving up!
-juice
It's amazing how fast you can go with just 1 hp, even today. 4 hoof drive, too. Yep, I went horseback riding on my dad's farm, and it was a blast.
They have so many animals, the kids had a blast. 3 dogs, 2 rabbits, dozens of chickens, dozens of cows (and just one lucky bull!). Sheep and goats, too. We made our own cheese!
I even got to milk the cow, early, 5am, before the calves drink it all up! Made my wife try it out, too.
It was like an episode of The Simple Life, and guess what nickname we gave my wife? LOL
But my dad set it up nicely, it has a pool, A/C, even internet (still dial-up).
The farm belongs to the family, but we donated some of the land and they built a pre-school for the poor kids in the region. I gotta say, I felt pretty darn proud to see the school named after my grandmother.
That was Fortaleza, we just flew to Recife, and now I'm with my mom and 2 brothers, my kids and their 5 cousins means it's a circus where ever we go.
Got to drive a diesel Blazer, diesel Hilux (4Runner to you), a VW-based Dune Buggy, a VW Gol, a made-in-Brazil Civic, and a Citreon Xsara Picasso (thing looks like an egg!), so I'll share those impressions later. Oh, and the Fiat Palio we gave my mom. :-)
Hope all of you get to have this much fun, and most importantly, spend time with the ones you love. Bless all of you.
-juice
We are now at Anne Marie's for christmas, will check when we can. We had a horrendous time coming down, with cancelled flights, missed connections, and to top it off they lost our luggage. Rita was ready to have a nervous breakdown and I was ready to take a baseball bat and beat somebody senseless.
However after a nights sleep we are somewhat more at peace.Luggage was located and delivered at 2 am.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
I come home from work Monday evening to find a message on the answering machine that the luggage was delivered and on the front porch. I figured I must be getting old because I didn't see any stuff on the porch when I drove into the garage. So I took a look, and sure enough, no bags there. I called US Air and talked to the delivery guy who confirmed where he put them and described my house correctly. Called all the neighbors, still no bags. So I went back out to the porch, and spotted a small tag on the front door knob from the Disabled American Veterans. It was a tax receipt that said "Thanks for the Donation".
So, believe it or not, US Air delivered the bags around noon, and then a charity came by and picked them right back up later in the day!!! It was so bizarre that I felt like I was dreaming or watching an insanely ironic yet funny sit-com routine. The whole thing was nuts, right down to the little clue hanging from the front door knob!
I went down to the DAV thrift store 30 miles away the next morning, and was able to rescue the suitcases before they got processed. US Air had put them in red plastic bags which sort of (if you are blind) resemble the bags the DAV distributes for donations. So basically, the DAV truck was driving through the neighborhood, spotted two red bags on my porch and took them!! Talk about being in the wrong place in the wrong time!!
I was real tempted to write letters to US Air and DAV to complain about this, but it was such a ridiculous and insane situation I didn't even know where to begin. Suffice it to say, I was just glad we got our suitcases back. Between clothes, gifts, and a couple hard cover library books, it would have set us back $600-700 easy.
Anyway, next time your bags get lost, remember this story!! If it could happen to me, it could .... well, it just means my luck is not getting any better as I age.
Craig
Juice that is so cool. I'm sure you're family is honored as that was a great gesture and thing to do.
Brenda, wow... sorry to hear about that. That's news you never want to hear regardless of what time of year it is, but it tends to hurt more when the family should be 'all' there together. Lucky for him, it's people like you that make those who suffer, easier for them to cope. It's good to know there are still good people in this world.
That makes a difference!
Steve
By the way, that wasn't a typo, I did say Gol, not Golf. The Gol is Brazil's small VW. They sell a Polo in Europe but Brazil's small car is unique.
Yes, Bob, I am about 4000 miles south/southeast of you, +3 hours time difference. It's summer, about 85 degrees and sunny every day so far, just got out of the pool. I'm tan. :-)
Tons of cool car stuff to talk about, did you know they make flex-fuel cars here that run on gas, ethanol, or any combination of the two?
Oh, and gas is about $4 per gallon, diesel just half that. So you see why diesel SUVs are about all that sell here. Oddly, there are few diesel cars, though I expect they will trickle in from Europe.
All the cars here pretty much come from European models. Chevy has the Astra, which will be the USA's Cobalt I believe, at least the profile looks the same.
They sell Chevy Astra vans here, aka Subaru Traviq in Japan. Actually the Chevy Mariva is the new model.
Honda builds Civics here now, and even the Fit. I may try to go test drive one, preview what might eventually come to the US as a sub-Civic.
Subaru has an uphill battle. Fuel costs are so high that only the R1 or R2 could feasibly make it here in volume, and they'd need to be built in Brazil to be priced competitively. They'd probably also need to hire a Brazilian driver to race in WRC.
That's how Renault penetrated the Brazilian market, actually with F1 and Ayrton Senna. They were the #1 import, now they produce cars in Brazil and have major market share. But racing in F1 is what introduced people to the name Renault. When I lived here (up to 1985) Renault did not even exist in Brazil, it was unheard of.
Clios are all over the place. Berlingo vans (ugly like an Aztek) too.
Peugoets also, the 206 is one of the racier looking mini cars here.
Too much to talk about. I gotta go eat, but I'll try to check in on occasion so I don't forget stuff!
-juice
juice: Thanks for giving us a taste of Brasil!
Ken
Cheers Pat.
Bruce
Jim
Whilst its cold for you, here in Sunny melbourne it is still over 80F here at 11:00pm Not a good night for sleeping so may go and do a fe w laps of the pool
Car replacmetn decision is drawing closer. I was thinking of another Outback but the Liberty (Legacy) is tempting as well. Maybe I should try the Forester as well.
There up against the Toyota Kluger (Highlander) which has the beneft of seven seats. We are at that soccer kids stage where extra seats seem to be in order.
I can hear that pool calling
Cheers
Graham
Oh.. How I just hate you right now!!! ;-)
Just a few words of caution: AWD does not = All wheel Stop.
Be careful, and enjoy!
Mark
After reviewing some of the previous posts regarding how to hook up an Ipod to the Subaru, I am confused as to which is the best method. I could have sworn I read that the best method would be line in (which we do not have). My question is how good is the quality of the cassette adapter? Or, would I be better off using the FM modulator adapter that plays over the radio?
I am looking forward to having the Ipod hooked up in time for the 48HRS run (http://azpinstalls.com/48hrs05/) in January.
Thanks,
Mark
and yes line-in is best, but couldn't easily be adapted to the stock radio. however since you have an '00 Outback, at least you don't have to worry about an evil ACC integrated radio.
~Colin
Worst case, brush with bath soap.
It's gonna taste the yucks though, but a splash of Listerine or Scope should mask the taste
-Dave
It's gonna taste the yucks though, but a splash of Listerine or Scope should mask the taste
I would go for baking soda before bath soap - too many memories of soap in the mouth as a child! Rob M.
I have to disagree with Colin here -- the cassette adapter sounds a lot better in my experience. We used cassette adapters in our 02 Outback, 03 Forester, and 03 WRX and the quality was very good. I later put an Alpine deck in my WRX which had a direct line in, and it was better than the cassette adapter but not by much. In the WRX and Outback, I rigged up the cassette adapter so that the wire was hidden behind the radio face and it looked pretty good.
Unfortunately, my 05 Outback does not have a cassette deck so I am using an FM modulator. The quality is decent (like strong FM stereo) but not as good as the cassette adapters were. For one thing, FM limits the frequency response more than a cassette. Also, there's a lot more "conversion" taking place to pipe the signal via FM than with a cassette.
So, I definitely vote for a cassette adapter!
Finally, which radio is in your car?? Some Subarus could accept an add-on CD player or changer (my 00 Outback could), in which case there is a line-in jack on the back of the radio that you can use for a direct connection. It will take a little engineering, but people have gotten it to work. You can look on the nabisco web site, some people there have done it. That would be the best sounding option.
Craig