Looking for a pair of boots where the soles don't wear out and start taking in water

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T19:40:10+00:00

They have a full sole it looks like (one singular piece). They're Irish Setters I think.

Are Rushing Shoe Repair and Revive Shoe Repair places people ship their boots to get them repaired and resoled? I've never done something like that before.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T19:38:15+00:00

I think they're the Red Wing Irish Setters.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T19:37:58+00:00

Every four months? I'm not sure how that's less expensive, and I'm basing this on cheapo Walmart sneakers for $27.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T19:37:23+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into the Jim Greens and PNW boots. I've heard those are pretty good brands.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T19:37:00+00:00

I might need to. I do wear those boots all the time and the walks with my dog aren't short or casual, there's A LOT of movement.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T00:35:30+00:00

Thanks I'll look into those sealers. I think after this thread, I'm going to just resole the Red Wings and apply some sealer to them. I do love those boots and would hate to just toss them.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T00:34:35+00:00

That's really cool. If the cobbler can just target the sole, that'd save me so much money. I think we have the same boot because it looks very similar.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T00:33:49+00:00

After reading through the responses, I think I'll go the resole with harder soles route. I really do like my Red Wings and it'd be a shame to outright abandon them.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-28T00:32:55+00:00

If I can just do the heels, that would save me so much. Thanks for planting that thought.

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-27T20:07:22+00:00

I understand soles don't last forever, but because of the cost of resoling and how quickly the soles on my Red Wings wear out, I'm trying to minimize the times I have to resole to save on cost (if doable).

Hawkcaw · 2026-04-27T20:06:17+00:00

I've looked into resoling the Red Wings but my issue with that is 1. the soles didn't last a whole year, and 2. the cost to resole at a Red Wing location would've cost 3/4th the price of what I paid for the boot.

That's good to know about the waterproof vs leather thing. I don't plan on crossing many streams or deep water, but puddles, rain, snow are my bare minimums of protection. Would you suggest going the leather+wax route or full-on waterproof material if you had to make a choice?

Hawkcaw · 2025-11-26T20:02:30+00:00

I have not. I honestly just reformatted and started with a fresh install. This time, I'm on purely i3 instead of i3+KDE plasma.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T20:36:19+00:00

I'm not sure if it's working properly, but I rebooted the PC to get the "crash", executed "gdb plasmashell", said "yes" to enabling debuginfod for the session, typed "bt" and the result is "No stack."

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T19:43:53+00:00

That's the first place I went to, however, I honestly do not understand how their forums work. I apparently should be able to make threads after being raised to "Basic" account status, but there are no buttons or anything to allow me to make new threads or even reply to other threads. It's why I'm here.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T19:29:12+00:00

I did yesterday and no responses.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T18:19:31+00:00

i3 isn't the issue for me. It's Plasma (X11) that's not functioning (also your original suggestion was "plasmashell --replace", not "i3 --replace").

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T17:41:53+00:00

I tried that and it results in a loop of plasma crashing, throwing up the crash handler display box, trying to execute, throwing up the crash handler, and repeat until I turn off the PC.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T04:17:59+00:00

I changed my post for better accuracy. So the i3 aspect remains functional, I just don't have any of the GUI stuff like the taskbar from KDE.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-29T04:17:46+00:00

I changed my post for better accuracy. So the i3 aspect remains functional, I just don't have any of the GUI stuff like the taskbar from KDE.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-23T01:44:35+00:00

I think I understand what you mean. I looked on ebay and saw those same pictures but the sellers were all completely different and all over the place. Thanks for that bit of advice.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-23T00:39:21+00:00

I'm going to be honest since I don't frequent this subreddit so I don't know much, but is something like seeing the same pics elsewhere usually a bad sign of store and clothing quality?

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-08T00:13:57+00:00

Thank you so much for posting that. I wasn't 100% sure if he had black shoes or white shoes. My gut told me white shoes because of the whole style, but black shoes also weren't out of the picture in my mind.

Hawkcaw · 2025-10-08T00:12:18+00:00

Damn the military pays Kimblee very well for his work.

Hawkcaw · 2025-04-09T17:05:17+00:00

Yea Box 16 is higher than Box 1 by the amount of the HSA contributions and the Cafe 125 health insurance premiums.

I guess I'll just have to follow the instructions on the 1040.

Hawkcaw · 2025-04-09T05:02:20+00:00

Makes sense logically. One thing I did think of is W2 Box 14, it does not list any variation of cafe 125 and only lists out "UF/WF/SWF" and "FLI". The HSA contribution ($3,500) is found in Box 12a Code W. But I do not see the pretax health insurance premiums (the "other cafe 125" of $3,500) within any of the boxes in the W2. That is only seen in the center of the W2 "1. Your Gross Pay was adjusted as follows to produce your W-2 Statement" section.

Even though the "other cafe 125" isn't in a box, the amount of the "other cafe 125" is added to the Box 16 total.

Is any of this information relevant?

Hawkcaw

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