I appreciate the Visa fraud prevention people.

I really do, but it’s getting to the point that you can’t even use a credit card anymore.  Michele at Bookster sent me a bill to get on with the making of my overcoat this morning, so I whip out a credit card and proceed to attempt to pay.  Denied.  Annoyed, knowing I have a [...]

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Disappointing customer service experience

My preference for formal dress gloves are gray suede.
Go ahead, try to find them.
I’ve been told in various gentlemen’s forums that Chester Jefferies in Dorset, England was where I needed to go to find precisely what I was looking for. Although gray suede doesn’t appear in their online catalog, they supposedly respond to such queries [...]

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I need to start going back to lodge.

It’s going to be hard to justify having a new dinner suit made if I don’t.
I know just what I want, too.  Midnight blue, shawl collar, 4×1 double breasted.

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Let the blogging (re)commence

I’ve been out of the blogging game for a while now.  My previous blog home was a site which originally came to be for purposes completely unrelated to blogging.  For a lot of different reasons, it’s time that site went away.
I’ll continue to talk about the things that interest me, sort of an eclectic group [...]

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