I have written on this blog fairly often that I feel that I am just a regular guy, a motorcycle rider, one who chooses to wear leather garments regularly (rather than just as a costume or once-a-year events), and a guy who happens to be gay.
I received an email from a reader, a fellow biker, and who recently came out. He explained his feelings to me. With his permission, here is what he said–
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In thinking about what to write as I restart my musings on this blog, I reflect on what inspired my website’s name … bootedman.com.
It is amusing to think back to 2004 when I was diligently cataloging my boot collection, taking low-res digital photos of my boots, and using a primitive HTML coding processor offered by my ISP at the time (my cable TV provider.) As I was developing that crude first-attempt website, I had a number of conversations with Larry of hotboots.com fame, and his exceptionally creative and technically adept husband, Bill.
Bill urged me to create my very own website, on my own domain, and suggested ways that I could improve my web-building techniques.
So there I was, thinking to myself, “what web domain name would work for what I want to do, and what is not already taken?” I thought long and hard about myself…
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I got my boots on and am back in the bloggin’ saddle.
Thank you, though, for this brief break, brought to you by…
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I never like to do this, but from time to time I must. I will be taking about a two-week break from blogging.
Why?
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The past few days while housebound due to insurmountable mounds of snow, I have been teleworking. It has been a very productive but busy time for me. So while working from my home office, what boots are on my feet?
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As I noted in my most recent post, the geographic region where I live was in the bulls-eye of a major snowstorm. Panting media types breathlessly exclaimed, “a storm of epic proportions!”
So how did we fare?
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We saw this coming a week ago, and all indicators remained consistent throughout the week. The consistency of the math, predictions, and forecasts have kept my boots and me exceptionally busy this week both at work and around my community and home.
What’s the nature of this extreme busy period?
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Over the last several months, over 90% of the visitors driven by search engines to this blog are looking for information about boots. Cowboy boots: wearing them with suits, heel and toe types, how they fit, etc. — and motorcycle boots: what boot works best on a motorcycle, and many searches about motorcycle police boots.
Few, if any visitors care about my daily life, and I don’t blame ’em. I lead a boring life filled with mundane activities. I work full time, care for my spouse and his recovery from a horrible prolonged and torturous illness, and occasionally when weather permits, post about riding my Harley. I look after a bunch of LOLITs (little old ladies in tennis shoes), and am engaged with my community in civic voluntarism, including home remodeling projects for people who need that kind of help.
But people don’t care about that, so there will be less posts about those activities.
For the next while (however long a while is), I will post…
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Not much time to blog at the moment… As you read this, I am working with and supervising 50 guys in work boots…
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Alas, the usual situation of being at odds with the spouse is upon me again. Within the last few days, I have received three pleasant introductions from guys visiting the area where I live (two for MAL this weekend and one coming to DC in a couple weeks) asking if they can come visit, have a bite, and see the boot collection.
My response, dictated from the spouse…
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