Cav's Place

This will be another quick post, just to avoid another Sunday update. I’m completely exhausted, so only trying to somehow write this now and post it just before midnight, because I’m not even sure I got three hours of sleep yesterday, adding together the morning and the afternoon, and then some sort of problems, which I hope only consist of some momentary inflammation and not a urinary infection or something even worse than that, ensured that I didn’t get more than another few hours, split in a few different parts, today either. Let’s hope these issues will sort themselves out and I’ll manage to catch up over the next couple of days.

Yesterday I was supposed to be one of the witnesses for another protester, who was supposed to have been my witness as well if the judge who heard my case would have wanted any, but ended up wasting a good four hours in Court, plus the time spent on the road, for no reason. He was last on the day’s schedule and, seeing as this judge heard witnesses, the proceedings dragged on, but when his turn finally came he was told he’ll only be able to use one witness, probably because he was the only one who had both of those he had listed actually show up, and he chose the other one, for obvious reasons. Not that I’m complaining about that part, of course, but it’d have made things a lot simpler if I’d have known in advance that it’ll be like that, so I wouldn’t have gone at all. Still, this should at least mean that there will be no more court dates if no new problems will appear, at least if the Gendarmerie won’t appeal the ruling in my case and if he’ll be successful as well.

What made yesterday even worse, however, was the fact that, shortly after leaving, I noticed that the bottom part of my right shoe was peeling off, so I was sort of limping and dragging my foot, literally, as I went to Court and then to a hypermarket after the hearings ended. Admittedly, at the time it didn’t seem to be that big of a problem because it looked like there won’t be quite that much to glue back together, seeing as these have the soles split in four, with this front part making up most of the surface, the part under the heel being split in two and another part, which doesn’t seem to have any practical purpose, in the area that makes less contact with the ground. However, now that I had a better look at them, I noticed that the parts under the heels of both are coming off as well, while that middle part of the bottom of this right one is completely gone, plus that it may be getting a little torn in another area as well.
Having the bottom part fall off the old ones, completely and on both at once, while taking a walk, was the reason why I ended up getting these, I believe about seven years ago, but now the plan is to ignore what’s gone, since it doesn’t exactly matter anyway, and still try to glue everything else that’s coming off back together, seeing as it was obviously simply glued in the first place. However, there’s quite a lot to do and I’m not sure if it’ll be worth it, nor how long it’ll actually last, so the glue may be an additional and more or less useless expense and I may end up needing new shoes soon enough anyway, and I definitely don’t care to go looking for any.