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@ocnbrze Larceny. I like wheated and it's got a high wheat ratio. It has an interesting history/tie to Old Fitzgerald bottled in bond, they're pretty much the same really. I also love Maker's 46, it's my go to after Larceny.
Weller is really good but hard to find sometimes and more than I like to spend for a tasty nip. So I only have it when someone sends me a gift - which a sister recently did, yay!
 
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It's definitely good stuff. I think they got carried away with themselves and built a snooty young following over the years - the in crowd. I just won't pay ~$80 for a bottle of anything. I love The Macallan scotch but won't pay for it. Besides, bourbon is a rowdier in your face drink, I'm in it for that.
 
I have no idea what my father paid for his Weller. I know he bought it by the cases in Oklahoma and ran the Kansas border with his haul to escape the heavy Kansas stamp price. I just knew he was going to get busted someday. :) I never saw the man drunk but I don't remember ever seeing him without his nightly drinks.
 
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I happened to get 2 pairs of these.
 
I have not had any quality shoes in a bit, my restaurant shoes keep on collapsing at the heel, Those I think I got a year ago though, I remember because I wrote down the date on everything that I do get, then I just recycled it methinks so. But my other Skechers are really nice slip ons without the hard insoles on the heals, I have a high in step, I got that from my mother..
 
I'm able to get a pair of diabetic shoes every year from my doctor. Fairly decent shoes, too. Biggest difference in them seems to be in the insoles. Nothing name brand but they're comfortable.
Too bad I can't find any good "EarthShoes" any longer
 
I wear bi-focal glasses. Just got contacts and new glasses a couple of months ago and was not hapy with either for doing the computer. (I spend hours in front of mine)

The eyeglass place got me to try some "computer glasses" and I picked them up yesterday. Man what a difference.

They are single vision readers with magnification and the screen seems to jump up to me now ! ! !

I am very satisfied with them.
 
The right Rx can be absolutely life-changing!
It's embarrassing, but I have FOUR pairs of glasses:

A pair of progressive trifocals for daily use (reading, computer and distant);
A pair of progressive bifocals for my office (reading and computer*);
A pair of progressives, mid-range and distant, for the vehicle;
A pair of the same but in sunglasses.
*- when the optometrist asked me how far I sit from my monitor, I measured it and replied "four feet". She exclaimed, "FOUR FEET???" Yeah, it's kinda big. I think she has monitor envy now... :D
 
I use a 27 inch monitor and am up to 4 different pairs of glasses and contacts ...

Sometimes I watch tv with no glasses, I can see, just not focus on the details or text. I can remember the days before my eyesight went South and I had to start using help to read. I was in my 40's and realized one day that I could not read the TV Guide anymore. (this was back when there was a printed weekly guide that you purchased)
 
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I have absolutely no idea how old the shoes, that I'm wearing today, are. All I can say is that they're comfortable and don't hurt my bunions.

Heck, they may be older than one or both of my kids
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I had a pair of Rockport shoes once that lasted me almost ten years and I have a pair of boots I got from Walmart that are going on to year seven
 
I have a pair of cowboy boots that I bought in the late sixties but they see very little use. I use my shoes to death. Dress shoes become work shoes and eventually shoes to mow in. When a pair of shoes are done... they are really done.
 
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I use a 27 inch monitor and am up to 4 different pairs of glasses and contacts ...

Sometimes I watch tv with no glasses, I can see, just not focus on the details or text. I can remember the days before my eyesight went South and I had to start using help to read. I was in my 40's and realized one day that I could not read the TV Guide anymore. (this was back when there was a printed weekly guide that you purchased)
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I wear glasses and I can go without them for maybe a minute before everything goes blurry. A few years ago I had pulled into a truck stop at night found parking, I got out of the truck and started to head to building because I really had to use the bathroom. About half way there i noticed everything was foggy and out of focus. I could make out the figures of people and the shapes of trucks and trailers . I realized I had taken off my glasses. Getting to the bathroom and then back to the truck was a whole ordeal :thumbsdowndroid:
Now anytime I leave the truck I make sure I have my glasses
 
I will say that that these are most definitely the ugliest shoes I have ever bought :thumbsupdroid: :D :)
 

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Dress shoes become work shoes and eventually shoes to mow in. When a pair of shoes are done... they are really done.
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LOL ! I have a pair of velcro strap shoes that are my kick abouts/yard/garage/ and everything else shoe but they are not my pretty shoes !

They are very worn and comfortable, and I sometimes wear them to the store. My wife says I should be ashamed to wear them in public.

I flirt, (well they start it) with the checkout girls at Kroger and when I am going to the store I tell my wife I am gonna wear my sex shoes, yup the velcro ones with holes, grass stain, permanent stain/dirt look.

She says maybe they will feel sorry for me and offer to buy me a new pair of shoes ...

I have a snow white pair of Reebok's lace up tennis shoes and a back up pair, that have never been worn, in a shoe box in the closet.

Maybe some day I will wear them ....
 
Years ago at a K-Mart I bought two pairs of shoes with their buy one pair and get the second pair half price sale. The shoes I bought were exactly the same and when checking out the lady told me that the shoes didn't have to match to satisfy the sale criteria. I didn't give a care what they looked alike or that they matched. They fit great and were well made and represented years of future use. That's how little I care about impressing someone with my shoes.
My two oldest children are very much into shoes and the statement they make. Both have shoe collections with shoes to fit the occasion and designed to impress. I admit that I enjoy seeing their fancy new shoes but it just isn't me. Different strokes....
 
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