Bugger.
Long day, lots of running, and I’m beat like a rented mule. 11 hours on my feet and a miserable ride in cold nasty weather surrounded by morons.
I bought a new pair of Thorogood boots. I specifically sourced these because they claim to be an American company. They are; an American importer of Chinese shoes. I will be at the SHOT show in a couple weeks, and I intend to spend some time bending their ears about this.
They aren’t bad boots, but I paid American Made prices and got chinese boots. I am extremely disapointed. They are requiring some break in, and that is less fun than one might imagine.
There was enough snow drifted across the drive to require snowblowing, so I did, but it was not fun.
As I turned off the main street into the subdivision, the streets were icy and slick, but empty. I couldn’t resist. I had Coldplay ‘Clocks” qued up on the phone, and put the earplugs in and cranked it, spinning around, doing donuts, sliding down the street sideways throwing a rooster tail up and down the street, grinning like an idiot. Well, it was my thirty seconds of exuberance today.
I got a pair of steel-toed Skecher’s tennis for Christmas. Non-slip, too.
I’m very much looking forward to pissing off many a foreman on the various commercial jobsites I get onto.
Now I just need to keep my eye peeled for some kind of hard-hat that’ll have the same effect. There was a solid brass one (fully functional, webbing n’ all) on Craigslist. But, it was $100, and weighed too damn much.
And that exuberance? Reminds me of the cats, exploding into a flinging fury of fur, batting a toy around for 20 seconds, and then curling up as if nothing had ever happened.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Two companies i know make cowboy hat style hard hats.
http://www.tasco-safety.com/hhats/Cowboy-hard-hats.html
Sometimes, you just have to indulge yourself.
For good boots, I love my Red Wing 2412’s. Made in Minnesota, from leather made in Minnesota. Without question the most comfortable pair of boots I’ve ever owned. They’re still going strong after 6+ years of wearing every day in not-so-nice environments. I replaced the soles on them a little over a year ago, and they still keep my feet warm and dry.
In some plants I have to wear metatarsal shoes, so that’s what I have to get. But there are issues; external mets are very heavy and clunky, and most of the internal mets are glued soles. My foot sweat seems capable of loosening even the toughest glue, so I need welted boots. Bloody hard to find.