New Suit

In my quest to dress like a grown-up, I've actually reverted back to shopping habits of my younger self. Growing up, my mother bought all our clothes from Goodwill. After getting embarrassed by my cheap clothes, I went the other way and bought pants that were way to expensive. Now I'm back to thrift store shopping. Half because I can't afford new clothes and half because Jessie Thorn, my personal new-media hero and blogger at putthison.com, buys his grown-up clothes at thrift shops. 

Today, I stopped by Twice is Nice in Urbana, 607 West Elm St. I was looking for pants specifically and nice clothes in general. What I found was a nice suit. It's the most curious suit I've ever seen. It's a custom tailored suit for Robert E. Thomas. The jacket fits pretty well, only a little big, but the pants are huge. Taking it to the tailor. Pretty excited about that.

I also bought this great tie. It's wool and made in Scotland. And the old lady who took my money told me it was her husbands.

Introduction

The hardest thing about a blog is starting it, I guess. (Keeping it going is pretty hard to do too, but I can work on that later) How do you do it? Should I start with some inane story about my day? Or should I work from an introduction. I chose the introduction route. I wrote a semi-regular blog with blogger for many years before this, but I'm hoping this one will be a little more professional. Which means I'll pay more attention to spelling errors and maybe not post so many pictures of animals being cute. So look back here later to see what I've got. I'll post here whenever I have something to say that's to large for a tweet or not important enough for a published article.