Tales from FAR Manor

... are normal . So the doc told Daughter Dearest this afternoon. Happy dance Happy dance Happy dance Happy dance Happy dance Happy dance Ha...

I woke to sirens going by the house about 3:30 last night. Everyone else slept right through it like it they’d grown up in the metropolis. C...

I’ve been planning to start putting some short stories, and perhaps a novel or two, online for a while now. What has held me up is debating ...

Hey, I know. You’re exhausted from Christmas shopping on Black Friday. You blew all your money... and besides, you’re too exhausted to pay a...

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving where such is celebrated. We did pretty well today; lots of chow and laughter. My contributions to t...

Current music: DI.fm Deep House I had the stress test today. The doc said there was a wiggle in the EKG that shouldn’t have been there, but ...

I’ve heard that smoking can kill you, but I don’t think this was what they meant . No argument with the closer: “the hapless Madame had no m...

The ding-a-ling came home with another ticket — this one for 72 in a 45 zone. Baaaaaad news. Seeing that it’s his second ticket within 30 da...

Current music: CMradio - Celtic The wind is pretty strong tonight — the NWS says 15 to 25mph, gusting to 30. Well, that should pull down th...

Two (much larger) competitors of the company I work at find it too much of a struggle to compete, so they’re joining forces . Our stock got ...

And I don’t mean British Petroleum. The stuff I’m taking now is hydrochlorothiozid ( gesundheit! ), 25mg, once a day. It occurred to me that...

...when you don’t have time or money to run to the theater or rental store. Tonight’s feature suddenly got a little dated — but never fear, ...

M.A.E. was looking to get The Boy a laptop for Christmas. She got suckered by this outfit calling itself BlueHippo . To make a long story sh...

After two weeks of public-relations hell, several class-action lawsuits, and the introduction of a virus that takes advantage of its DRM clo...

Starting the drive home yesterday, I started feeling really strange — pressure in my chest, tingling all over, a bit dizzy. I didn’t have an...

Sheesh, half an hour after doing the church bulletin, I was thinking it’s Sunday. The day started waayyyyy too early, what with getting some...

Leave the popcorn on the shelf and keep the drinks out of reach. Tonight’s feature goes for a combination of cheap laughs and the “can’t tea...

A high school student in Hillsdale, Michigan decided to run for mayor as a write-in candidate yesterday, partly because the incumbent didn’t...

I rag on Planet Georgia a lot, but I’ve been indoors too much lately. I had occasion to get out Sunday afternoon, and got a reminder of why ...

Current music: DubLab A long post of short events.... I had a different dispatch in mind for tonight, but Blogger Photo is being cranky abou...