So, I am a long term Allen Edmonds fan. Probably somewhere around 20 years. Now normally I wear their boots or courtside sneakers. However, I am almost their target market for higher end sneakers. But what have they done? Why are they simply going off the rails for me lately? First off, I love my courtside sneakers (I need to buy a blue pair). They are reasonable comfortable, they are not Brooks or Hoka, but they are minimalist sneakers. They are also recraftable. Oh, and they fit: 10 3E. Wides has always been a reason for a lot of buyers of AE. With their reserve... not everything comes in wides. In fact no sneakers do. So that kills me as a customer for those. But what's more is that they have slowly killed off every sneakers but the Courtside from being recraftable. So frustrating. Ok, rant is over. Just wanted to share.

Okay called me a big kid but, I got to find this ceiling fan! That is so cool! The fan blades are the propellers! And bring a Army Vet, and flying in helicopters before, what a cool fan to have in my office/ man cave!

When it’s the exception to the norm then it can be right. Anyone familiar with Dwight Shrute, the insufferable character on the Office will understand my T shirt. On one of our live albums four of us in the band were listening to the raw pre mixed three hour original recording and cringing as we heard ourselves mis notes and intonations -well three of us did. Carl, our English horn player in our Celtic band 🤷🏻 kept replying… “I think I did Ok”. So naturally we named that album “Carl did OK”. The T shirt that was on the album cover depicted Carl raising his horn and riding a sheep off into the celestial heavens. It was our top selling shirt. Since I named my sailboat Celtic Cheer after our band, Timothy O’Brians Celtic Cheer, that makes every T Shirt an official ship uniform- right 😎? Anyway took my wife son his wife and their friends out for a low-wind sunset sail with the Guinness flag a flying. My son had on a sailclub graphic T that on The back it reads “the beatings will continue until moral improves”. A hot August sail night - I am very cool with graphic T’s. Lots of fun tonight