Happiness is boots that makes one feel strengthened and tough when one wears them. Even better is wearing boots called "engineer boots" when one is an engineer. And perhaps even better again is that one buys such boots from here but significantly on sale, and for one's birthday, no less.
A photo taken for Isis, among others.
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In those days, one of the hardest things to come by was a good pair of boots. Boots were carefully and painstakingly hand made of relatively rare materials. They were meant to last for years, re-soled now and then, re-heeled a bit more often.
Here's what I did to replace Windows 8 (boo) with Linux Mint (yay) on a 2013 Asus ultrabook with the problematic UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware, using an external DVD drive linked to the machine with a USB cable.
It should not really matter how long it takes to boot your OS. Why? Because a good OS will start up once after a major system upgrade, then stay on forever after unless there is a power failure.
Gotta love those boots.
Not enough mud on them yet--
Just give them some time.
Awesome fucking boots!!
Now *those* are shoes I can believe in. But then, I always look at footwear through the prism of bog survivability.
I am extremely jealous of those boots.
I have a pair of brown leather hiking boots that I miraculously found at a Play it Again Sports when I was a destitute graduate student. They make me feel the same way: strengthened and tough.
Thanks Alice -- now I not only have boot envy, but I've got a Billy Joel earworm too. :)
Those boots are borderline erotic. Of course, what would push them over the line is a 3" heel and teal sequins.
these are QUITE smexy boots
I love the first sentence of this post. It's totally true!
Loving those boots!
Love the boots Alice!
Oh, I do like those! Thanks for the link to them.