So gents, Ive been having a “discussion” with my wife about Chelsea boots. I have these two pairs currently; the polished dark tan ones are my dressier boots for evenings, dinners and some more formal occasions, often paired with navy or beige chinos and appropriately coloured button down. The darker brown pair in the muted matte finish are my more casual daytime boots for things like casual lunches, or even maybe a weekend shopping trip etc, and I’ll often wear them with indigo jeans or my more rugged olive chinos (my fave combo), a long sleeve Henley, or t-shirt and overshirt, and I absolutely love wearing them. Here’s the thing though; my wife reckons that because they’re boots, both pairs are automatically formal wear, and should only be worn for formal occasions, and consequently I almost feel shamed out of wearing the darker ones for any kind of casual situation. I’d love to hear your thoughts to help clarify the situation in my own mind if nothing else. I have also got a pair of sand coloured desert boots on order for spring/summer casual wear, and I’ll be getting a pair of Thursday boots Captains soon too, for a more rugged look (can you tell I’m starting to really get into boots 😉). Oh, and for context, as I’m in Australia, I’m currently living through the cold Victorian winter.

As I said I do Uber a bit as a side gig, and use it as a reason to dress nice. My outfit for tomorrow

This might seem long but there is a valid point to this. So, as many of you know, I have been mentoring my grandson for some time. During this time he has gotten to the age that most teenagers are where they want to be like everyone else their age. So over the summer, my grandson wanted to go and spend time with some other relatives. While he was there, he noticed that they were always cleaning on a regular basis to the point where it was like every week they were cleaning several hours. And so my grandson asked why is it that when he was at our house they didn’t have to clean as much and the house was always neat and at the other realtor‘s house it seemed like the house stayed messy, but they were always cleaning. So I had to explain to him that there’s a difference in being organized and being unorganized. And that what we do at our house, we do a reset daily. And once a week we straighten up usually on Saturdays. I explained to him that what he was experiencing was that they would let everything pile up during the week which would cause them to have to spend the whole day cleaning the house. I explained to him that we do what it’s called a reset every evening which normally takes about 15 minutes to walk through the house and put everything back in this permanent place. This keeps the house clean and keep from having to do a massive cleaning at the end of the week. So now he understands the difference and being organized and resetting every day, as opposed to having to go back and clean everything and moving things from one place to another instead of putting it where it belongs, also straighten everything in the house at the end of the week, which takes hours. My grandson also realized that they spent more time trying to find things rather than knowing where things were because they never put things back and his permanent place. When you are organized and you do a reset it takes less time to put things back in his proper place to where you do not have to to spend excessive amount of time finding things, going back and having to re-clean and re-organize everything on a regular basis this goes for house, closet, garage, anything that required us to have time spent

Quick picture snapped in the office lift. I’m now 7.5 stone down, with 1.5 stone to go. Now when I see my reflection, I no longer see a fat man. I see a thin man who’s let himself go a bit. 😀 Please excuse the manic look, I was on the way to lunch and feeling ravenous.

With nearly 3,000 videos posted over the past 15 years, most channels would have slowed down on the releases. RMRS just released their fourth full video in the last seven days. I recognize that @Antonio Centeno has put together a full team and uses great technology to make this a possibility, but that is part of the impressive point: RMRS continually evolved and grew to keep bringing us quality, researched, and topically relevant content in a way that educates and inspires. I know this sounds like a commercial. However, in my field (psychology), we value receiving and providing feedback, and, instead of glazing, this is my grateful way of saying well done to Antonio and th entire team at RMRS.