Five months later...

How time does fly. Goodness me. That was good advice from Sara S., but I slid back into posting on other people's blogs and ignored my own Centurion's Servant right here. Maybe ignored is the wrong word. Didn't utilize perhaps is a better way to say it. OK, I'm utilizing now. Have a meeting in a few minutes so I cannot tarry here long.

Got some new boots comin'! They're made by Chippewa. Like my current ones by Red Wing, but taller. Never thought I'd leave Red Wing but they have outsourced their engineer (motorcycle) boots to China and the quality cannot compare to what it was with the USA-made ones. Oh well.

Really looking forward to getting the Chippewas! UPS estimates they should be here Mon. 26 Apr 10. Have always wanted ones like these. My late parents bought them for me. More correctly, part of the tax refund from the closing of their estate was used for the purchase of those boots. Thanks mom and dad. You never ever would have bought me something like that. And now, for the rest of the time I have, however long that may be, I get to do it my way.

<Sinatra filter> Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention </Sinatra filter>

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Meeting's over, and have to admit got weepy, surprisingly, when describing a scene from John Wayne's The Alamo (1960).

Fortunately, the only other person in the meeting understands, or I think he understands. I was describing the scene where Crockett (John Wayne) has a letter written in Spanish read to his men by Flaca (Linda Cristal), to convince them to fight in the Texas war for independence. He's a movie fan, knows me, the admiration I have for John Wayne, so it's all right. Still, surprised me. I don't know why I got weepy about it. I've seen that movie maybe two dozen times, know that scene well. Yes, it gives you a little bit of a knot in the throat, but my eyes actually filled with tears and I had to stop talking and get my breath. Maybe just too much coffee and not enough sleep ( although I got almost 12 hours last night). Maybe too much sleep. I don't know.