I've played with PAR a bit and I really like it. In this case, I'm on a different box (OS X BSD vs Linux) from the client and I don't want to try to develop remotely; I don't want to add hours to the project and I'm barely PAR competant though I had some success with a couple test apps; and I want to give them something with few layers of abstraction.

If there isn't a simply way to do what I want without it, though, I am thinking about revisiting PAR for it.