Tales from FAR Manor

Current music: Drone Zone Saturday morning, whatever was in my side gave a last twinge and just... left. [Cue Hallelujah Chorus and a dance...

I’ve considered Hallowe’en my favorite holiday for a long time. This may seem strange coming from a Christian, and a fairly conventional one...

Guess who let the propane tank run out? *sigh* At least there’s plenty of firewood. I went and gathered up an armload of kindling a few minu...

Last week, there was the big toe acting up. My self-therapy for that in the past has been to wear the ol’ Birkenstocks with the shaped sole....

When you don’t have time to go to the theater and watch a feature-length movie... there’s plenty of shorts just a click away. I have enough ...

So crazy, in fact, I want to do it. But not this year. November is National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo ), the writers’ version of motor...

Going into work this morning, I saw no less than five cop cars out & about. One of them pointed the ol’ radar gun my way. Now I ding Pl...

Just another reason to avoid Wal-Mart like the plague. It isn’t enough that they tell their suppliers to move manufacturing to China... they...

“Someone called from the lodge today,” M.A.E. told me Friday evening. “She said a cop was up there looking for me.” I reacted swiftly and de...

All the news that you didn’t hear about (but probably should have). One reason I avoid blogging from work : even if you have free time, you ...

A lot of people have posted tributes to Rosa Parks today, and deservedly so. It took a lot of guts to say I ain’t movin’ in that time and p...

... or blogging about blogging. Seems like Blogger got the performance probs fixed last week — a tip of the ol' beer mug to the guys who...

Results from the What Muppet are you? quiz. I don’t know how they did it, but it fits. You are Dr. Bunson Honeydew. You love to analyse thi...

On Saturday, I wrote about publishers suing Google over the proposed Google Print service. Like the music and movie industries, book publis...

Category: Work Music: Groove Salad I got included in an email chain at work late last week. To make a long story short, one of our customers...

Last night, Mrs. Fetched asked me to see if she had anything in her eye. I didn’t see anything, but it did look a little red. It was still h...

...for a change. The Register always manages to find the most compelling human interest stories . El Reg... news about IT and other weird th...

If it’s October on this planet, it’s time for fall festivals. My mother-in-law makes (and sells) quilts and bonnets at two of these outings ...

Heard during sets on a streaming Internet station last night: “If Jesus had a tape recorder, how different would things be today?”

From a student paper, dated October 21, 2782. Don’t ask me how I got this. The following is one of the recovered fragments of The Book of In...