Tales from FAR Manor

I was close to overload this morning: between fixing breakfast, gathering up boxes for a yard sale at the in-laws’, and getting ready to but...

Current music: BassJunkees Two news stories put a smile on my face this week. Quality journalism, as always, from The Register. California, ...

Current music: AfterHours.fm Just counting down the days until The Boy is off house arrest, then gone, then vacation. I figure we’ll have to...

Some random numerical thoughts… Chance of rain today (forecast): 30% Amount of dry pavement on the way home: 20% Number of times I patted my...

After a nice afternoon at the resort, I stuck a couple of frozen pizzas in the oven and called it supper. As I didn’t have anything more pre...

Wow. The last time I mentioned Daughter Dearest’s boyfriend was nearly two months ago . What with one thing and another, he never got back d...

Vision the Third, finally. Intro Vision the First Vision the Second This is perhaps the worst-case scenario, or maybe it’s only as bad as I ...

The Boy, yesterday, told me: “By the way, your Civic can do 140. That’s what it topped out at.” He may have only been trying to harass me — ...

The Boy, once again, has screwed himself over by not thinking ahead nor taking us seriously. After I bitched about his “band practice” leavi...

The Boy and J had a brilliant plan this morning: stall going to the chicken houses by playing Need for Speed: Underground . So J was fiddlin...

As it turns out, Nothing Happened yesterday. We ended up watching a couple of movies ( Flushed Away and Syriana ) and that was pretty much ...

Last time we went upstairs , the floor was ready for us to commence. And last night, Mrs. Fetched and I did just that, laying down two boxes...

Intro Vision the First Vision the Second. We are heading into pessimistic territory here, but by no means the worst case: Wars abroad and ch...

And this is my state of mind at the moment.

Intro Vision the First. This is one of the more optimistic scenarios I can imagine in the next 51 years: Civilization reconfigured itself ar...

Here follow a series of possible futures for both FAR Manor and America. Each of them will be set in an oil-depleted world, in late November...

In between me buying a new motorcycle and looking about 50 years into the future, we’ve been working on putting down wood flooring in Daught...

Little Zook The company stock went up a fair amount in the last week, making it worthwhile to cash in some stock options. Then when I ...

Iowa Victory Gardener writes an excellent Memorial Day post . No matter how low our opinion of the “Commander Guy,” we must never lose sight...

The south GA/north FL fires are depositing a thick layer of smoke all the way up here — I was pretty sure at first that there was a fire nea...