Tales from FAR Manor

Together again! And when I die, and when I’m gone, There’ll be one child born in this world To carry on, to carry on. —Blood, Sweat, an...

Beats camping in a tent, says my 60 year old back. Not quite everything came together last weekend, but good enough: Mason had fall brea...

I found this after the fact: Mikel, Mason, and Charlie, all in one pic. It was from last December, when he came up to spend Christmas with u...

This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write: The Boy has begun his longest journey . A permanent TB01. You-know-what this. ...

While we were cleaning up the house, a Casio wristwatch turned up. Sizzle didn’t claim it, and I had never seen it before. Mason thought he ...

Pull up a chair, young’uns. Today, I bring you a tale from a time when years started with a 1. It was a technologically backward time, befor...

The local Kroger recently set up a refrigerated kiosk with “Home Chef” meals. These are boxed meals with two servings, running $17-$20 per b...

One of the advantages of using a text-based markup grammer for documentation—these days, often XHTML or some other XML, but could be Markdow...

In the brief two years I was on my own, I concluded 15 changes of clothes was the ideal number. It let me do laundry every two weeks, with o...

With a new car in the garage—a 2019 Kia Soul EX—I now have that critical extra seat to take both Mason and Charlie places. I still have the ...

About six months ago, my weigh-in at the doctor’s office was not a happy occasion for me. I came in around 234 lbs, the most I’ve ever weigh...

In this adventure, we find that structure isn’t always structure. And sometimes, the structure jumps up and smacks you to get your attention...

It has been a wet winter so far. We’re currently getting a few days of dry (and reasonably nice, for late February) weather… in mid-week, of...

I think a lot of us are relieved to see 2018 in the rear-view, and perhaps are directing a forest of Meaty Middle Fingers its way. But it ha...

In today’s installment of Life of a #techcomm Geek , we return to a subject that draws this geek like a moth to flame: file conversions. Haz...

A long time ago, back when The Boy had more than his share of teen angst to deal with, I had a series of “TB” error codes. TB02 was “He mo...

I’m one of those people who like liverwurst. Always have. I gave it up for a while, what with the weight gain and high blood pressure, but B...

Mason took to Minecraft like a natural-born bricklayer. He comes up with some rather interesting constructs from time to time, and we’ve tal...

Some cleanup required I was bonking around in the garage Sunday afternoon, not doing much important, when I ran across Mason’s old porch...

Charlie knows it’s important to accessorize when you’re hitting the town on Friday night… I’m going to regret this when I’m older. A b...