Tales from FAR Manor

“ I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can ...

Our weekend began well enough, until Mason… shall we say, displayed symptoms of a 24-hour stomach virus starting late Friday evening. The fu...

"Untergang der Titanic", by Willy Stöwer, from Wikimedia Commons September 11, 1931 There is a running joke about using a t...

To be honest, I’m surprised that CreateSpace doesn’t have something like this on their own site already. Any time you want to publish a pape...

I’ve been saying for a while now that I need to get clothes I don’t/can’t wear out of the closet to take to Goodwill. Well, today the wife t...

Hey, put your finger in here… Charlie’s 7 months old today. As you can see, he has been cutting teeth for a while. This of course is acc...

In last week’s post , we saw how you can import an OPML outline directly into Scrivener. For those of us who use an outliner for more than t...

Yesterday afternoon, after a lawn-mowing session, followed by some fixes and improvements to Mason’s slide and climbing wall, Rosie the Bost...

Part 1 of a two-part series I’m a pantser by nature. I like to get the story started, then let the characters tell me what happens. But t...

You can sleep through your own hearing when you’re a baby. ;-) We had another hearing with Charlie on Thursday. Big V had dropped her Mo...

He’s a little behind, which is to be expected given his not-so-stellar origin story, but he’s catching up quick. He’s quite the chubby baby ...

Back at the manor for a couple of days, but I’ll be heading out this morning. While I was at Mom’s the last couple of weeks, we kept in to...

Things have been going mostly pretty well here for now. I’m working remote, there’s plenty of stuff to keep Mom and me occupied after work, ...

Friday night, after a few rounds of testing, I decided Tines 1.10 was ready to go and uploaded the source code. Tines is primarily an out...

For all of June, I’m the quintessential nerd: living in Mom’s basement. You probably know about Mom’s summer house in the mountains of North...

And we officially begin a new chapter—both our kids are married. Here comes the bride—get outta the WAY! Saturday was the culmination ...

This runs a bit longer than a flash should—just short of 1300 words—but it’s part of a larger work in progress (16K words and counting). Sti...

Mason’s first year of school is drawing to a close. Yesterday, the kindergarten classes had their “graduation” ceremony. In which Mason ...

Multitasking: Charlie’s eating and sleeping all at once, while I’m feeding him and typing one-handed! Sun Tzu said, "the wheels of ...

Welcome to Tech Tuesday, my new occasional column covering the nuts and bolts of writing, publishing, and keeping your tools sharp. There’s ...