Tales from FAR Manor

A future project—I plan to start on it in earnest early next year—is requiring a specific set of “reset reason codes.” The codes, and their ...

I still remember an old  Hägar the Horrible  strip, where the family is gathered around the table. Supper is a pizza, presumably with everyt...

Wow, has it really been four years since I discovered the peach tree next to the composter? Not like there was much more to say. The peache...

Image source: openclipart.org Last time I had to deal with an API, it was pulling a vendor’s documentation into our own system. Now, I have...

Every few years at FAR Manor, one of the A/C units begins a horribly loud rumbling. The first time this happened, the wife called an HVAC du...

 Check out G3, for lack of a better blog-name right now… I haven’t seen her awake just yet. Man, it's so hard to remember how tiny they ...

Ah, Friday. The day you come downstairs after wrapping up reports and shutting down the work laptop for the weekend. Two days of rest, relax...

Pop, our orange cat, disappeared a few weeks ago. Missing and presumed… you know the drill. :-( KT, the shy and retiring cat, has been sligh...

With the stingy rainfall, and temps well past 90°F lately[1], maybe creeping into triple digits south of Sector 706, you would think it’s su...

One thing about working at home, you don’t have so many distractions. But sometimes, the wife has to go do something on the farm while she a...

…and I haven’t been posting. I'll backdate a few things, starting with a trip to Mom’s for Spring Break, so scroll on down to see what’s...

We got out on time, but traffic suxxxxxxed. We lost an hour overall. I was hoping to get out before the mad weekend rush, but no such luck. ...

We took the boogie board to the beach today. Mason actually did pretty good. A guy about my age had a surfboard, and offered to let Mason tr...

The morning started out, um... interesting. Wife sent me a pic of her iMac screen, showing a blinking question mark over a folder. Figuring ...

Mason and I went to the beach this morning. We brought The Boy’s old skimmer board, and Mason actually did better on it than his dad did.  ...

Well, Mason and I are. Wife can’t leave the farm unattended at the moment, and Charlie has some therapy appointments he couldn’t miss. Mason...

More rain is headed our way tomorrow afternoon, but the weekend gave us a pair of not-quite-spring days: a fair measure of sun, and highs of...

…when the daffodils start blooming. This clump is just across the driveway from the front yard. A good reminder that winter doesn’t last for...

 …and when I say over , I mean over . I launched the drone, high (23m, according to the flight log) above the trees to get an unobstructed v...

Kludge. Jury-rig (or the variant, jerry-rig). Lash-up. Sunshine Engineering (named for Mr. Sunshine, who bodged lots of things together that...