Tales from FAR Manor

Continued from Part I II. The Producer The phone rings. Husband and wife look at each other for a moment, and he says, “I’ve got it, I’m clo...

The Boy, me, and Daughter Dearest at the resort last weekend. I have since had major bush-hogging done to my hair.

This is a true story. That’s not to say I saw it happen, but I have seen its light shining from sites like Blogger, MySpace, and YouTube; it...

D-Day lays out our whole economic dilemma in one fine rant . In a nutshell, if we don’t spend ourselves into bankruptcy we’ll bring down the...

Current music: BassDrive The Boy has done yet another one of his in&out maneuvers. He came home Friday evening, and flaked off back to t...

Work is driving me nutz. Home is driving me nutz. Got a long weekend coming a week from now though, and I’ll probably take Solar up on his i...

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) is perhaps the first US Senator to be immortalized with a techno remix of his infamous “series of tubes” speech. Ab...

This hit home yesterday... gas prices have stayed just under $3/gal here for a while now. At that price, if you use two gallons per day on y...

Sometimes, it’s best to bring the camera along instead of wishing you had. A bus stop bench near where my uncle Sonny used to live. Look ca...

Whew.

Awhell came out and fixed our noisy phone lines yesterday, but the line technician must have goobered the DSL at the same time. A call to c...

There was more to the Zidane headbutting incident in the World Cup final that we were aware of. Now we know, thanks to more quality journali...

Heading home from work Wednesday, quick stop along the way to pick up a couple of pizzas. Between that, a coffee, and lunch, the $80 I got i...

We interrupt this series of essays for another round of real life. Here’s one of the few points on which The Boy and Mrs. Fetched aren’t ali...

We’ve all seen them or dealt with them: they cut in line , or they shoplift stuff & try to “return” it , or they scuttle our weekend pla...

I stumbled across Journler in a MacDevCenter post today, and it took about 10 minutes to get me hooked — at last, I can write posts offlin...

A recent post from The Homeless Guy prompted me to think about this while I was in front of my blog for a change. He wrote, “ I think I...

Seagull: someone who makes a lot of noise, craps all over everything, then flies away. It’s been a while since the last one of these, before...

... on the road ahead... and it says: “JOB BURNOUT - KEEP GOING.” The question is: where do I turn off?

A while back, I wrote that Ken Lay (and Jeff Skilling) would stay out of jail because Bush-league would write them pardons on his way out t...