Tales from FAR Manor

Fast, easy, free… with Weekend Cinema, you don’t have to settle for only two. Today’s selection was a 2007 finalist for the YouTube Awards. ...

It seems that Big V took a tumble in the shower a couple weeks ago, and broke her leg near the ankle and a bone or two in the arch of her fo...

A while back, Yooper pointed out that the “FAR Future” is not even 15 years from now. It’s like that Don Hendley song, In a New York minute,...

This is one way to visualize spring #3 on Planet Georgia: The real spring is on the way, the one that all too quickly turns into summer. Yo...

I wander into Burger King for a veggie burger, and see that they have a new sandwich they call the “Angry Whopper.” It's your basic Whop...

Tomorrow, a rotter rides off into the sunset. And America rejoices. In 2023, it’s taking a little longer. Friday, January 27, 2023 Besieged ...

If it moves, and it's free, we want it for Weekend Cinema! Or something like that, anyway. Now if these demonstrations don’t convince yo...

From : FARfetched To : “Climate change skeptics” and other Global Warming deniers Undoubtedly, many of you have been strangely warmed by the...

Winter #3 has arrived on Planet Georgia. I bundled up and took a little walk around the block at lunch yesterday. Empty parking lots, quiet ...

Yesterday, Merlin Mann wrote a thought provoking blog piece: Re-Potting with Resources: What Would You Make? (43 Folders). He asks the ques...

This one’s a little shorter than usual, but that’s how they go sometimes. There’s a longer one coming up that will partially make up for it....

Spring #2 is winding down, with Winter #3 set to arrive Sunday or Monday. It has been rainy except when it was relatively cold. Yeah, the su...

Being at FAR Manor, an in-law freakout wasn’t necessary to cut my staycation short and get me home — they were right there, after all. The l...

Funny how this episode mentions Detroit, with all the Detroit-related chatter on some of the blogs I read. But I wrote this one in mid-Octob...

Jim Kunster posted his “Forecast for 2009” on his blog Monday morning. What follows is based on a comment I left in response, with my own p...

Back to work, shortly after this post goes up. Happier times in the FAR Future? Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Farewell, Sammy Summer’s over, no ...

Now it’s Christmas Past. And the staycation is entering its final weekend (although I only have a two-day week next week, good way to ease b...

More rain, and even a thunderstorm a couple hours ago. I don’t remember ever having to yank the DSL on Christmas Eve… but on Planet Georgia,...

You know, I was so looking forward to writing this one. Saturday, August 20, 2022 Run, Run, Run, Run Away Wingnutistan delenda est. I can’t...

Friends and relatives back in Michigan sometimes ask me how I deal with the weather here — “at least we get four seasons here," is one ...