I am pleased to report that I have influenced a guy to buy a pair of boots to wear with dress clothes to the office — in Washington, DC! Here is his message, reproduced with permission:
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Return of the Monsters
I am truly sad, upset, and angry by the evidence. Evidence of return of three ugly, nasty, awful yet invisible monsters.
What monsters?
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My World Isn’t Gay or Straight
Funny, someone entered an internet search that seemed to reveal this Texas-based smartphone-user was surprised to find out that I am gay:
Yep, I am. Booted Harleydude is gay. There, I said it. Any difference now that you know? I hope not. After all, I am the same guy that I have been all along.
I continue to have a debate with myself, and sometimes in reaction to what I read on some discussion forums or in exchange with some friends, about “how gay I am” or if the Gay Police will confiscate my gay card because I am not “gay enough.”
I continue to affirm that I am who I am, with some identities or feelings from the gay guy world, and some from the straight guy world. Rather than feel divided and left out of both, let me explain how I feel included as part of both worlds — a much better place to be!
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Boots At Work — Ostrich Redux
As I continued on my endeavor to wear each pair of boots in my cowboy boot collection and my motorcycle boot collection without repeating any, I realized that I own a lot of ostrich boots, so this week I wore ostrich boots again to work in my office — a different pair every day.
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Frye Boot Misrepresentation
I get highly annoyed when I see direct and flagrant misrepresentations such as this in a recent marketing promo that I received:
Let me break this down, point-by-point, and explain where the misrepresentation is.
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Silly Blog Spam
One of the downfalls of moving my blog to WordPress is that WP is more frequently subject to silly spammers. I have had to install six anti-spam plugins (program enhancements) that trap that crap. Then all I have to do is delete it. But man, there is a lot of it! From 20 to 40 attempts each day to add comments on many of my posts, that if I did not set all comments to moderation and have these plugins installed, these spam messages would appear.
What annoys me…
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Sweet Early Spring Tease
This happens every year… we get a few nice days in a row with sunny, warm weather, then it gets cold for a few more weeks until Spring happens for real. However, yesterday it was sunny and reached 61F (16C). So what’s a biker to do?
Well, silly, if you have to ask…, yesterday I…
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Boot Questions Answered
Here are some of the latest questions that people look up on search engines and get directed to this blog for answers. Some of them are serious, some are funny, and some are … well, you decide.
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Boots At Work — Mixed Bag
Continuing on my endeavor to wear each pair of boots in my cowboy boot collection and my motorcycle boot collection without repeating any, these are the boots I wore to my office this week.
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Graciously Declining a Gay Wedding Invitation
I have mentioned before that my fiance and I are not fans of weddings in general — nothing to do with the nuptials being for opposite-sex or same-sex partners. Once again, though, a friend sent me a formal invitation to his same-sex wedding to his partner of three years. I like the guy a lot, and think his partner is very nice (though I don’t really know him), but was again faced with the dilemma on how to decline the invitation since we didn’t want to go.
I debated about how honest I should be when I replied, and came up with this response, which my fiance thought was gracious and gentle, but also honest:
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