The Elusive Yeti

Not unlike its namesake who lives in the high mountains of Nepal, the YETI rambler is proving to be hard to spot this holiday season.  The Wall Street Journal breaks it down.

It wasn’t a hot toy causing the 33-year-old hairstylist from Dacula, Ga., to go to such lengths. It was a $40 stainless-steel insulated mug, called the Yeti Rambler.
“I have a friend who is in Illinois for business and has gone to 15 different stores,“ says Ms. Inman, who was trying to buy the mug as a class Christmas gift for her daughter’s teacher. Last week, she finally bought one from another Dacula resident.

 If you are desperate, I have two "slightly" used ramblers available at wildly inflated prices.

Stories we wear

I never thought it was particularly cool when my Mom sent me to school with patches ironed onto the knees of my "Toughskin" jeans. I may have not thought it was cool, but at the time there were plenty of other kids wearing the same sort of fashion.  After all jeans cost money and we all played hard in the creeks, dirt, and bushes.  Holes in jeans wouldn't be "in" until years later and my Mom would have sooner sent me to school without lunch than with holes in my britches.

Fast forward a few years to a fishing trip with some new friends who made a point to remark about a few patches in my waders, right up until I landed the largest fish of the day.  The story was the same then, waders cost money and I fished hard in the creeks, dirt, and bushes.

After watching "Worn Wear" from Patagonia, I have to say that lately my fishing equipment looks far too new and drastically under patched.