Tales from FAR Manor

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 ...

A couple weeks ago, I noticed my phone was starting to discharge a lot faster than normal. Thinking I had issues with an app not being coope...

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 ...

Between the day job and the family, sometimes I have to snatch writing time when and where I can find it. I’ve done plenty of handwriting on...

I didn't set out to do this, but various failures over the weekend kicked off several minor technology changes today. It's like my g...

Everyone welcome me back to the frustrating world of feature phones. Given the bills we have, Mrs. Fetched had been complaining for a long t...

Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way With The Boy working (he has A JOB !!!), and Da...

As the dust begins to settle on vacation, we also ponder the fallout of The Boy and Snippet. As usual, they pushed things right to the limit...

After a few calls to support, and a little troubleshooting on my own, I’ve concluded that my iPhone 3G is pretty much toast. It works OK unt...

Plenty of stuff to blog about this week, but no time to sit down and write it. We took several treks to downtown Atlanta, specifically Atla...

After an unwanted January hiatus, I have returned to the podwaves! I’ve got the latest news from the free-range insane asylum, cellphone cha...

My new cellphone decided to get in on the act. I guess the first inkling that something wasn’t right was when the alarm didn’t go off this m...

A handful of things that didn’t necessary merit their own posts… Fury asked for a close-up of the yellow flowers growing all over the mano...

I should have known that this would bite us in the @$$ some day. When we got our smellphones, we wound up on a rather generous plan, minute-...

Wife got the Stinkular bill today, and almost ended up like that guy on the T-Mobile commercial. $380. M.A.E. didn’t realize that just downl...

I didn't get a RAZR yesterday, “just” a V220. Neither the Mrs. nor I were really comfortable spending $200 on a phone; $100 was enough a...