{"id":867,"date":"2009-12-12T23:39:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-12-12T23:39:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T06:39:18","slug":"the-sock-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/the-sock-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The sock is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long live the sock!<\/p>\n

I told you all ages back that when I moved from Oregon to Las Vegas back in 1992, I did so bearing two dufflebags and a box of books. Well, those dufflebags didn’t contain any holiday ornaments or decorations.<\/p>\n

While I was being a bachelor, I didn’t really bother with them beyond getting a little live tree about a foot tall and a set of battery-powered lights. Once the EMC moved in, things had to change and a full set of ornaments and yea, even a stocking was purchased.<\/p>\n

That stocking has served it’s purpose over the years, but I had been getting less and less impressed by it. It appears as if it were hand-knitted (but it isn’t) and it’s really just a long tube closed off at the end. It also happens to be just a bit snug when trying to get your hand all the way to the bottom, and the structure of semi-loose yarn tends to grab anything and everything.<\/p>\n

Time for something new. Time for something uniquely me. Time for something…<\/p>\n

\"Stocking1small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

…leather.<\/p>\n

And thus was the new stocking born! I’m not sure what kind of leather this is (a friend tells me it’s pigskin, but I don’t remember ever buying anything non-bovine), but the fur is genuine rabbit from two different pelts. The toe is a bit snug on this one due to a measurement gaff on my part, but I am basically pleased with the design. Tolerant says I should just put a buckle on it and call it a boot. I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

A word to the wise when cutting rabbit fur though: don’t do it in the house, shit gets everywhere. Buy a good lint roller.<\/p>\n

Joyous Yule!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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