Posts made by chrisjohnnick

Oh yea, I can’t stand buttons on shirts either. I don’t mind bigger buttons, but smaller ones NOPE.

In my previous life as a firefighter and emt, some of us would have a zipper installed under the placket of our shirts and glue the buttons on top.

@pechelman said in Ask Giles and/or Alex Anything:

@Mizmazzle Work shirts rarely work for me. When the length is right it's usually too wide and sloppy looking. When the width is right it's too short. Ive got a couple of work shirts among many westerns, so that's definitely my preference. I also have the good fortune of being semi-in-between-sizes for Western cuts, so I normally go up the half size to XL in UHF for a more comfy fit and down the half size to things in harder faced denser fabrics like denim or serge.

This is all 100% me, too. Same sizing and everything. I also prefer a little extra room in the shoulders, so generally go up to an XL.

I'm switching up my closet as we speak. I packed away top coats and leathers a couple weeks back, and I'm going to bring out some short sleeve button ups this week or next. I regularly switch up my closet layout, but the big shifts are peak spring and peak fall.

Weird, I saw this listing a couple hours earlier and remember the pics were there. Came back to the listing to double check the measurements again.

Get well soon! May the power of the MRMF heal anything and everything that lay before it!

Yea I've definitely gotten over notifications. I've removed social media and all that crap from my phone. I also turned off all notifications from everything except calls or text messages. Most of my people know that if they want to get me quickest, just call me.

That's about where I was with the apple watches, though. I don't care about the health and sleep trackers, and only would really use it to quickly answer messages. I remember thinking it was going to be a game changer for listen to music, but I remember spotify being really clunky on it.

So I tried an Apple Watch maybe 5 or so years ago and thought it wasn't for me. I know there have been many new versions and such since then. Am I missing anything? Wondering if I should step to one and try it again.

We're itching to get going with our stuff here in Nashville. We usually can't start until mid-April, since it l usually likes to tease us and make us think it's spring, before freezing a couple more times.

bump for these great jeans. may just put them back into rotation for the spring/summer if they don't sell.

Anyone else have an issue with a curb chain bracelet clasp that keeps getting unhooked? It’s happened 4 times in the 2.5 years that I’ve had it, where it got undone and has fallen off my wrist.

Luckily 2 of the 4 times have happened around my house, but a couple of the times I thought I’d lost it forever.

Love hero clips! I have a medium and a large one on two different bags. I usually buy at least one every Christmas for someone on the list.

My needs these days are definitely just browsing/responding to email/zoom calls. I love the idea of a desktop, I even have an iMac floating around the office, but I like the flexibility of being mobile if needed.

Eventually I’ll pick up a couple year old MacBook Pro or something. Just not a priority at this moment.

I just discovered today that I can connect my magic mouse and magic keyboard to my ipad pro. I'm wondering if I even need to buy a new macbook now!

This wasn’t already a thread?

My wife stopped drinking coffee and started drinking tea maybe 3 years ago. I gave up coffee about exactly a year ago. There’s a local tea maker in Nashville called High Garden Tea, and we have a few favorites from there depending on the season.

My daily go-to these days is Yerba Mate. I’ll have to check the brand I use when I get home. We buy bulk sized bags.

I'll take that first blue/black buffalo check. PM'd

I just bought a Beams zip up sweater vest today at a secondhand shop for $18. Thought I had seen the name on this forum before, and did a search!

Was having this conversation with a buddy yesterday about bands or genres that are accepted in certain regions, but made fun of in others.

The example I'll give is the band Sublime.

I grew up on the beaches of FL, near St. Petersburg. When I was in middle school and high school, Sublime was loved by almost everyone. Making a beach playlist? Put it on. Want a slow jam to throw on at a party? Do it. Want a solid album to bump while driving down the beach with the windows down? Done.

When I moved to Nashville a little over 10 years ago, most people seem to not take them seriously. Make fun of them. Make fun of people that like them. Etc. Almost in the same way that I make fun of bands like Nickelback or Creed.

Is there a band or genre you grew up loving in your hometown area that seems to be a joke everywhere else?

Speaking of Kid A, check out the cover of Kid A by Punch Brothers if you’ve never heard it.

Mandolin, violin, upright bass, banjo, acoustic guitar

I enjoyed Breaking Bad, but never watched any of those other shows. Not because I didn't like them, but just because I don't have the time or desire to start and watch a 5+ season show at this point in my life. Especially ones where I keep hearing something along the lines of "you just have to get through the first couple seasons, then in the middle of season three it starts to get good!"

Hard pass to that.

Other shows that fall into that category for me are Lost and Mad Men.

@endo was out for lunch with a buddy the day he died, and he was talking about how great eraserhead was. I watched it that night and thought, wow this is the worst movie I have ever seen.