As I struggle with coming up with fresh content for this blog, I am in deep thought about six friends who have died within the past two weeks — one of them a close skydiving buddy, four others who were wonderful people with whom I worked in my past life (previous long-term job), and one very close friend very recently. The most recent death was…
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Why Lug Soles on Boots in Winter?
Most of my motorcycle boots and work boots have “big lug” or “mini lug” Vibram soles on them. These soles provide great traction when riding my motorcycle (weather permitting.)
However, these boots have another added bonus when I wear them in winter with dress clothes to the office…
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I Am Now The Only One
When my friend WC announced that he crossed over to the dark side and got a sillyphone recently, I began asking myself again, “are you still the only person on the planet without one of those things?”
I observed people at airports, at my meetings, and in restaurants last week and am convinced that…
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Back Home
Hi, blog readers. This is a short note to say that…
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Comfortable Boots For Long Days of Work
Here I am at my annual week-long event that I organize for “my peeps” from across the United States and Canada — here in what my Canadian neighbours refer to as the Pacific southwest coast. LOL. I guess it’s all relative.
My work day begins at 0400, which is pretty good considering that…
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That Call
No one wants to be going about his life and get “that call.” You know, the call from a family member or friend telling you about…
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Boots on Travel
Hi, blog readers. My boots and I will be on our feet quite a bit during the next week while I am working to execute my…
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Post 2700 and Ten Years
This post marks two major milestones for this blog: this post denotes that I have written, edited, and posted 2700 musings on this blog. It also recognizes that I have been blogging for TEN years.
Yep, I started writing…
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Riding Freedom (and a Cop’s Support)
I awoke Saturday, January 20, to horrible news that befell my country at midnight Friday due to people who are supposed to represent us failing to do their jobs. I will not turn this post political, but let’s say the DIC and his cronies are being dicks and my country suffers further at the cost of $138 million/day. Also, January 20 is the one-year anniversary of the disaster whose terror has proven true rang in my memory, too.
On top of that, The Spouse has not been well and caregiving takes its toll.
Thankfully, we were blessed with…
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Cleaning Lug Soles
I have a number of pairs of boots with Vibram 100 “big lug” soles. They provide great traction and are like snow tires for the feet (provide you are over 40 years old and know what snow tires are). I have these soles on Wesco boots, my loggers and work boots, and a number of my motorcycle boots.
But with lug-soled boots, one has the problem of mud, dirt, and road salts getting caked into the lugs. My buddy WC asked me recently, “how do you recommend removing the gunk that cakes up in lug soles?”
Simple answer…
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