I am admitting — note it here and now — I selected the WRONG BOOTS to wear while at a conference last week.
I have no idea what I was thinking. Sure, I was distracted with worry about my spouse and having guests in the house while I was packing, but I really should have given two more minutes of thought before just picking out a couple pairs of boots and going to California.
What boots were wrong and why?
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I have been posting the past few days about my trip west, but I am interrupting these stories to say goodbye, for now, to the best guy on the planet, the universe, and beyond.
Who? Why?
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While in San Francisco for one night — last Sunday — I arranged to have dinner with two good friends who live there — Larry of “hotboots.com” fame, and Ken, the owner of Stompers Boots. Both Larry and Ken invited their husbands, Bill and Walter, respectively, to join us.
Yep, husbands. There I am, also a married man, with a ring on my finger indicating that I’m in the same relationship.
What things to married gay men talk about?
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I am writing this blog post from SFO airport departure gate 21, using the airport’s free wifi. As I am seated here, I am wearing comfortable leather jeans, dress cowboy boots, and a dress shirt.
Why this combination and how did I get here?
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I hate to have to do this, but I knew it would happen sometime. I am taking a one-week break from posting on this blog.
Why?
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We have had a bout of rather extreme cold and snowy weather in the DC area — and we’re not alone, with the majority of the central, southern, and eastern U.S. experiencing extreme cold relative to their respective averages. Another segment of the Polar Vortex broke south again, and is the culprit to the cold misery that millions of us are experiencing. (Sorry to sound a bit geeky, but my professional side is coming out.)
So back to the situation at hand. Or should I say, situation at-foot.
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Yep, we did get some snow around where I live yesterday after all. Sorry, no photos, I didn’t have time to take any. But trust me, we got a whopping six inches! (15cm).
Schools, offices, businesses, and even the Federal Government were closed. However, I worked at my paying job all day from home. I don’t get paid unless I work; I don’t get “snow days” as paid time off. So I worked.
But when my ten hour work day was over, I pulled on and laced up my Chippewa Logger boots, and…
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Yesterday was a holiday in the United States — the birthday of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King. I had the day off work, but worked anyway. I finished helping my recently deceased sr. pal’s daughter clean up her mother’s condo, took a few more sr. pals to the grocery store to stock up in advance of the oncoming, world-ending, monumental, massive, overpowering, mind-boggling…
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I wrote a post the other day titled “Boots Out of the Blue” about a pair of expensive Lucchese Classic black cherry smooth ostrich boots showing up at my house with no note or method to identify who sent them.
I finally resolved the mystery of their origin.
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This is a story about how a case of “discrimination by ignorance and delay” was resolved by a very powerful elected official who represents my spouse and me in the United States Senate. This senior Senator has a reputation for kicking butt and taking names, and getting problems that her constituents have resolved quickly.
Our story relates to challenges we faced as a newly married couple and legal recognition by the U.S. Government.
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