Tales from FAR Manor

A Saturday afternoon mini-adventure started with a text from Daughter Dearest: Can you take big butt truck to help get sizzles truck unstuck...

Mason was out of school, this last week, and I’ve decided to try taking days off when he’s off—just in case we get the chance to do somethin...

With a new car in the garage—a 2019 Kia Soul EX—I now have that critical extra seat to take both Mason and Charlie places. I still have the ...

Mason’s latest obsession is cars. Muscle cars, sports cars, supercars, anything with eye-popping horsepower and price tags (and insurance qu...

A vacation in Michigan is wonderful, but then there’s the return to the routine and outright misery that is FAR Manor. Nevertheless, I took ...

The Boy finally got his car working. It wasn’t long before he “found” a job and a place to live near his girlfriend’s place in Newnan. But t...

While Daughter Dearest was still in college, the wife got a mini-van and gave her the blue Civic to drive back and forth to Waleska. It was ...

Not the kind that runs on your phone. I’m not sure there is  any debugging of the hot mess that is Microsoft products. The father-in-law h...

It’s been a busy week… Awake and ready to go! The few minor issues with my new-to-me Miata are electrical. The driver-side power windo...

I realized a long time ago, when I need a car, it will come to me at the right time. My Civic has over 450,000 miles on it (the actual milea...

Well, not really writing  wibbles this week, because there hasn’t been much writing so far. But with Water and Chaos  now launched, maybe ...

It’s been a long overdue chore to clean out the trunk of my car, and I finally tackled it this weekend. Here's what I found: Trash....

Bottom line up top: Amazon rocks, State Farm sucks. As I wrote earlier, my Kindle screen went Tango Uniform early this month, a couple we...

The nearer your destination The more you’re slip-sliding away… — Paul Simon Yesterday’s drive home was one I would prefer to not repeat for…...

Mason is cruising right along, development-wise… and slobbering like he’s cutting teeth already. He’s also started fighting sleep through th...

Mason has been in and out of the manor a couple of times this week. As I type, he’s here as expected — The Boy has his band buddies over on ...

Solar was kind enough to invite me to his autocross club meet today. We mostly arranged things the week before, then firmed up the details ...

When I first moved to Planet Georgia in March 1983, my first thought upon entering metro Atlanta was, “don’t these people know what traffic ...

Earlier in the week, The Register coughed up a rather interesting article . I had a good laugh, then was inspired (if that’s the word) to wr...

I’m typing away with the new MacBook battery. It was sitting on the table when I came home from the yard sale on Saturday (and I guess I wa...