Tales from FAR Manor

You get paid on Friday... next Friday... and you don’t have time to drag yourself to the theater anyway. Tonight’s selection is a horror fl...

I have to hand it to Alltel — the new DSL box came in today, the most optimistic end of the 3–5 days the support guy said it would take. The...

Some brief scenes of work lately.... I got moved to a different cube last week, after being told I wasn’t moving, which in turn came after ...

That could actually be the subject of a voluminous blog in its own right, but for now we’ll limit it to one thing: he hasn’t learned that “m...

I should have known better than to think I was going to spend Saturday at the resort. My first hint should have been the phone starting to r...

Mrs. Fetched told me yesterday (Thursday) that she was thinking about taking the kids up to a resort where we have a membership, about an ho...

This afternoon, as I was pounding on work stuff & Mrs. Fetched was doing the same with her own, she told me: “I can’t wait for this week...

Two projects blew up on me at work this week. That wouldn’t usually be a major problem — happens all the time — except that I got volunteere...

Daughter Dearest has already bailed from her first job, after just over a week. Some b***h of a customer got snippy with her, which upset he...

Well, I can’t say it on a public mailing list using my real name, anyway. But it’s too funny not to share. The following conversation took p...

The usual pre-visitor cleaning frenzy is well under way at FAR Manor. Let me be frank here: I usually don’t bother doing any cleaning until ...

When you’re confronted with a device designed to be used against you, how do you react? Geeks find their own uses for technology. This is p...

One of the good things about the Techcomm list is that it’s not archived. That means we can gripe about our jobs, or make jokes about Britne...

Daughter Dearest wound up, on a Sunday afternoon of all things, being the only waitress at the lodge. The other one called in sick. She sum...

That’s what Mrs. Fetched calls them, anyway. It’s growing wild in front of an azalea along the driveway. Each flower is about the size of a ...

I picked up Daughter Dearest from her first day being a waitress. She was exhausted, footsore, and had about $35 in tips. Seems that the lod...

My basil plant finally got big enough where I felt comfortable harvesting some leaves for pesto. Next thing I knew, it was blooming. I’m goi...

Taken in front of a Mexican restaurant yesterday. I just happened to have my camera with me. The bees were all over the lavender, but didn’t...

Another gem from Techcomm. There were red faces in the Ordnance Survey office when its English surveyors returned from compiling a list of h...

Answer: one stuck in your head that you’re dancing to . This is all Daughter Dearest’s fault. Night before last, she introduced me to Cascad...