Tales from FAR Manor

Current music: DI.fm EuroDance It is said that for a redneck, quality entertainment is a six-pack and a bug zapper. We currently have no bug...

I just turned on word verification in the comments. I’m sick and tired of deleting spammer-droppings. If you’re not familiar with verificati...

Well... I guess that’s one way to get some iron in your system .

Well, at least this one just lives in the garage. I’m not sure how she(?) deals with the garage opening and closing all the time, unless the...

As much as I like to rag on Microsoft, I have to admit that there is a good side to the company... namely, the Macintosh Business Unit (MBU...

More stuff blooming around FAR Manor this morning: What’s up at your place? Sound off in the comments or just point to a link on your own bl...

Current music: John Eddie - Jungle Boy Rule #1: It’s always going to take more effort than you think. Facing the house, the yard to the left...

My trip to the doctor’s started well enough. I’d lost 15 pounds since I’d been in last, my blood pressure was normal (woooo hooooo!)... sh...

The Boy was home the other morning, and Mrs. Fetched was heading out the door. She started up, then remembered she needed to tell him someth...

Three weeks ago, it was about half as high as the rosemary plant (the light one to the right) that it’s trying to engulf. Now it’s waist hig...

It could use some mushrooms, but otherwise the broth turned out loads better than I expected! Chuck that sodium packet in the trash and Know...

Douglas Crockford hits it on the head talking about “introduction” web pages: What a Flash intro says to me is "I hate my job. What I ...

We finally got some storms in here with some much-needed rain. We might get more tomorrow. It does cramp our gas-saving program, because I ...

The Boy has been coming in extremely late again... and there’s some question as to whether he’s even going to work. His entire life seems t...

It’s official: The Boy has broken up with M.A.E. She’s not taking it too well, even though she kind of expected it. Actually, he announced t...

The one redeeming feature about tax season this year is that TurboTax has a vastly improved interface over the last time I tried it. I swit...

If I ever find the spamming cretin who owns degree-programs-online.info, it won’t be pleasant. Figures that the buttmunch has hosting at the...

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz — I wonder where the birdies is? So goes a favorite doggerel of an old college buddy, whom we called Joh...

Errands, errands, errands. First, it was off to Home Despot to get some outdoor stuff & some other stuff to shore up the bug defenses. I...

In the Roundup post below, I mentioned that Lobster was supposed to cough up the rent but I figured he wouldn’t. This one was a little on th...