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I have been absent from here a few months due to taking care of a sick family member. Unfortunately they have passed and I have a funeral today. He was a truck driver and a simple man who always said he didn’t want to have people getting “too fancied up” on his behalf even his funeral. Wearing simple chinos and a dress collar polo from Collars and Co. still haven’t mastered selfies though 🤣

Good morning gentlemen, So recently I decided to start journaling again. And I have not really written in cursive in a long time. I use to have good penmanship but wow! My cursive writing was atrocious! So I started working in it and I finally got my cursive writing back. But what was amazing was how I loss the skill of writing in cursive. This brought me to thinking about many other things that I have switched over to digital to function. In my quest I have noticed that we have come to the point that we allow the digital age take away our ability to do the things that we use to do. There are kids now days that can not tell time, they can not count back change when they purchase something. It use to be if you were in a store and the power went out they would still remain open but would hand write and calculate what is owed and what the change would be. Now when the power goes out that shut the store down, not just because of theft, but because most of the employees can not figure out the money owed and money returned. I looked this up and found out that when you are working and you stop to check your phone it literally takes your brain 23 minutes to re focus. So if you check your phone on the average of 11 times in an hour, you are actually only working productively 15 minutes an hour. And over a year the average person spends three and a half months of the year on their phone! These statistics are astonishing. Yesterday I had to take my wife to a doctor appointment and I had my grandson with us. I had him bring a book to read, as I did myself. As we sat in the waiting room for my wife’s outpatient surgery, I look around and noticed that out of 15 people in the waiting room lobby including my grandson and myself, only three of us were engaged in reading. Everyone else was engrossed in their phones. When we use our smart phones to plan our lives we loose the ability to be rational, think, and work out solutions. Some of the best detectives and investigators use analog technology to work on cases and solve crimes. Why? Because it helps them engage their minds rather than relying on digital to give them information. Why is that? Because digital does not take into consideration factors like emotions, reason, reactions.

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Hi All - As many of you know my casual look shoes are my Nubuck Strands from Allen Edmonds. They came with 3 different color laces. Brown, burgundy (Shown) and Navy Blue. I have only recently decided that changing the lace color to match a shirt or socks is a level of detail I wanted to try and I seem to get a lot of compliments. I have gone out and ordered more colors (Thanks Amazon) to see how deep the hole I can go. Just curious from everyone if they have started doing the same? I certainly haven’t given up on adding shoes to the collection. But thought this is a fun way to change the whole look of the shoe and outfit while being intentional about the detail. Hope everyone has an amazing Labor Day weekend!!