Tales from FAR Manor

Some mornings, I hold my nose and see what commercial radio has to say for itself. I just skip from station to station as the commercials co...

Courtesy of Google Earth Look upon its evil and tremble! Approach only with your nose held firmly shut against its stench! Tarry not, ...

It’s too cold to go out and catch a movie. Pour yourself something to warm you up and watch a short flick for free! As I’ve written here be...

TB01 : The Boy leaves home (again). It was obviously coming: he asked to borrow the car Friday night, after Dad got in, and said he’d be bac...

I had my quarterly checkup last week. The doc I usually see wasn’t in, so I got the other one. He plied me with many questions about how I w...

I got a disk enclosure at CrudUSA today — they didn’t have any Firewire boxes, just USB2.0. But it was only $20 and works OK with newer Macs...

A “weekend” is when you try to compress seven days of living into two, so it seems. Dad got here Friday night and spent the weekend; this is...

My new cellphone decided to get in on the act. I guess the first inkling that something wasn’t right was when the alarm didn’t go off this m...

My iBook has given me 3-½ years of trouble-free service, travelling pretty much everywhere, substituting as my work system for a couple of w...

If you’re a new reader, or just can’t remember who goes where in this free-range insane asylum, I keep a series of informational posts . It’...

Global warming aside, winters tend to be mild on Planet Georgia. At least they seem that way to one who grew up in Michigan. Mrs. Fetched g...

After making backups of the last 9 months or so, I finally bit the bullet and “upgraded” to the new Blogger. I might futz with the template ...

Stuff accumulates at FAR Manor — even cars. I have no idea how we’ve managed to amass a fleet of three small cars, two SUVs (The Barge and B...

Mrs. Fetched took Daughter Dearest to the doctor early last month, because she was feeling run down all the time. I figured that whatever it...

For whatever reason, I like wooden boats — must be a mid-life crisis thing. I have to occasionally combat the urge to buy a wooden sailboat ...

Family Man described the quiet New Year’s the FFamily is planning. We’re going down to Big V’s — it will be interesting to see how it goes....

OK, it’s probably Saturday morning by the time you read this, but you probably don’t want to watch this one at night anyway. Tonight’s featu...

So Mrs. Fetched called me at work today with a list of things to pick up at the grocery store on the way home. (She swears I forgot to get t...

I will always remember Christmas 2006 as the first Christmas where I woke up to thunder. Talk about starting off with a boom…. Now that Chr...

My grandmother’s “Parker House” rolls were both a family treasure and the source of a running joke. Everybody looked forward to Thanksgiving...