Tales from FAR Manor

Those of you who have been kind enough to stick with TFM through all the weirdness, fictional and otherwise, might recognize the name Ms. Al...

Contents “Caitlin was talking to somebody in a pickup,” Little Ben was telling Big Ben — or rather, his camera. “I was afraid she would get ...

After a few calls to support, and a little troubleshooting on my own, I’ve concluded that my iPhone 3G is pretty much toast. It works OK unt...

Shortly after Mrs. Fetched got off the phone Friday afternoon and told me about my doctor appointment coming up Monday, my phone and compute...

Contents From the diary of Ben Cho, fall 2011, condensed: We planted spinach and turnips, and a few stored onions that started sprouting. We...

Since I can’t seem to get to these nearly as often as I’d like… they all get rolled up into one big post. I’ve only had it for a few days,...

Contents The laden trailers slowed them down, which suited Cleve just fine. They stuck to the side of the road, using bike lanes or sidewalk...

OK, I know I gripe a lot about stuff in my life. Then something like this comes totally out of right field… Mrs. Fetched’s older sister came...

I finally got serious about cleaning up the wood spill behind the manor. After dispersing the spill with power and hand tools, there ’s stil...

Contents Thursday, September 29, 2011 One by one, Cleve, Johnny, Sara, and Tim rolled up in front of Sunlover’s Solar. Cleve and Tim took up...

… or “Boobs, Books, and Buzz.” Or "Marketing 101 in the Internet Age.” Have you heard the names “Hayley Williams” and “Paramore”? Until...

Contents Wednesday, September 28, 2011 How did I get so lucky? Cody asked himself. She has to be the hottest girl in the world. He lay half...

Once again, I let the blogiversary slip by! Then again, I seem to have forgotten it completely last year. Last time I did this, I commemorat...

A good “hot day” dish, everyone liked it and got extra. I threw this together yesterday for supper from what we had laying around, and it we...

Well, not that weird, not much weirder than any other day at FAR Manor. The day started out kind of promising; Snippet woke up pissy from a...

And a milestone, no less! Flowers, cards, dinner out, and now she’s zorched out in bed and it’s not even 11. These milestone birthdays are t...

Contents Little Ben led Tim, Kelly, Jennifer, and the other kids to his house: a grey Cape Cod with brick trim. He tried the front door, and...

Contents “Kelly and I will take them,” Tina said. “One of them, anyway. I doubt Kelly would let me not make the offer.” That drew several ch...

Now that I’m getting a feel for how GarageBand does things, it (as expected) doesn’t take too long to do these. I just didn’t get a chance t...

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this would be a looooong blog post. We keep getting cool snaps, and I keep thinking “this one must b...