Minor mixed news

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The bad news:  The toes on my left foot have become sufficiently problematic that my endurance with my Merrill high-top hikers has dropped to an hour or less before I've got to get the left shoe off.

The good news:  I appear to be able to wear my Magnum duty boots again, and keep them on for a couple of hours.  The last time I tried, a couple of months after my knee surgery, I couldn't wear them because pulling them on put more direct thrust on my knees than I could tolerate.

And honestly, after two years of near-daily wear, the Merrills are disintegrating anyway...