I’ve had a profile on recon.com since 2005, mostly to protect the use of my screen name, Booted Harleydude.
I never used it to find other men or arrange hook-ups or dates. I had been happily married (or partnered) since 1993 and always remained monogamous.
Other than preserving my screen name, I do not really know why I kept my profile on recon.com.
After receiving another delinquency notice for not logging on for months, I visited the site to check in on June 10, 2026.
I was appalled at the redesign. It is absolutely awful. It is not intuitive and what’s worse for me, is that when I logged on, it demanded to know my location so it could match me with other men.
No! I don’t want that.
Without much regret, I will delete my profile in about a month so the few friends I have connected with there may see my notice that I intend to drop off Recon and find me another way (I prefer old-fashioned email since I don’t text).
Why do kids these days have to do such intense redesigns? What wasn’t broken didn’t need fixing.
Old senior leathermen have little patience for that crap. Plus, I live in Canada about a half-year, so I have a different life now. Time to move on from my past.
Back in 2005 when my husband (then partner) expressed anger with me when I tripped over a pair of boots in our bedroom and said, “you don’t even know how many boots you have,” that led me to learning “old-school” HTML coding and building my own website 
I began to catalog my entire boot collection. I began with 
Later still and as interests and fetishes changed, I added 
I took a long break from updating this blog. Sorry about that… I ran out of new things to say. The content about my life as a confident gay man remains pretty much evergreen.