What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[jonesy86]

I'll tell you the same thing I said to Max. You look like you could use some snow!

No snow here, but I hear that they do get it up at higher elevations on The Big Island. However, when it dips down to the mid 60s on The Garden Island many people bundle up in winter clothing.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

McGonagall, meanwhile, derives fromthe Celtic name Conegal, which translates as "son of the bravest." However, that's not how she got hersurname. McGonagall comes from Scottish poet William TopazMcGonagall, considered across the UK to be one of the worst writers ever to put ink to paper.Dec 12, 2016

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I couldn't find the McGonagall Tartan on Google, other than Minerva's hat.

I did find the Nichols tartan again, though, which was my mother's surname. I like it. [emoji5]

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[KarlCrow]

Forgive the lighting, it was this green Panizza today, it often is, my favorite. Got this one off @Daniele Tanto a couple of years ago. From the old factory. Absolutely love it.

 

[Rmccamey]

Good ol' Reddy!

Reddy Kilowatt.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[moehawk]

Hey, John, do you live in Fort Bragg? I’ve visited a few times and had a chance at a job there. I lived way up north in Crescent City and I went to school in Arcata. I’m doing my best to finish my career back on the North Coast. I miss the weather and the fog and rain don’t bother me a bit (Fort Bragg doesn’t get the rain like Crescent City).


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Yeah, I've lived in Fort Bragg most of my life. Nice little town to grow up in, and to come back to but not a lot of good jobs around anymore. Arcata is a nice town too, never spent any time in Crescent City. They do get more rain, not to mention the shape and topography of the town make it more succeptable to tsunami damage.
Good luck on your plans to move back. Beats the heck out of being inland!

 

[moehawk]

Thank you, John. Just looked it up. San Diego's weather is more in alignment with my taste and melanin content. [emoji2]

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Well, the climate here has not discouraged a lot of your countrymen (and women! ) from moving here! I was a chef for many years and worked here in Fort Bragg with lots of Mexicans, mostly from Yucatan (and interestingly, the vast majority from one mid-sized town called Peto), and nobody seemed to mind the cool weather. One guy I knew even complained about how hot it was back home after he came back from a trip home to see his family...

 

[BobHufford]

Beats the heck out of being inland!

Inland California maybe, but I like living as "inland" as I do. Missouri is so nice that...

 

[Dlaniger]

I have been meaning to ask for a while, Reggie: Why do you mostly buy or wear modern or new hats, and not vintage?

Sincerely,

Nosey Max.



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Dear Max,
That's a pretty good question. I have been buying and wearing dress hats for a little over 25 years. Hats for me have always been about function and fashion, so I would buy the best quality hat that tickled my fancy at various hat stores in my region, or online. It wasn't until I joined the Fedora Lounge a few years ago that I then became formally exposed to serious vintage hat collectors and experts. I enjoy seeing everyone self actualize their hat passions and delight in seeing all of the hats that are posted in the lounge: vintage, custom, or new. I have a few vintage hats, and I am always on the lookout for more, but I am not driven to collect them. (I have other vices LOL) I enjoy learning about them, and I live vicariously through you and all the others who post and teach about their treasured items.
Sincerely,
Reggie

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Well, the climate here has not discouraged a lot of your countrymen (and women! ) from moving here! I was a chef for many years and worked here in Fort Bragg with lots of Mexicans, mostly from Yucatan (and interestingly, the vast majority from one mid-sized town called Peto), and nobody seemed to mind the cool weather. One guy I knew even complained about how hot it was back home after he came back from a trip home to see his family...

There are a lot of guys working in restaurants in Chicago O'Hare airport who are from my Dad's home town in Jalisco.

Many years ago, during my postgrad in Chicago, I went to look for a cousin of mine who worked in one of those restaurants. I didn't know which, so I asked a waiter in the first place I found if he knew Jesús Valle. He shook his head, and started to walk away, so I asked him why he was being so rude. Surprised, he looked back and asked me why I was looking for Jesús. I said he was my cousin, and he didn't believe me (we look nothing alike,) so he asked me where my cousin was from, and what was his full name.

-Jesús Valle Tejeda, from San José de las Casas Caídas, Jalisco, I replied.
-And what is your name? He asked.
-Max Tejeda Nichols.
-Oh, wow, you are don Max's son? So sorry! Chuy works over there, but he will start work in half an hour.
-Why did you treat me like that?
-Oh, I thought you were an Immigration agent who spoke good Spanish. Sorry. I, too, am from San José. There's about 30 of us working at the airport.

Three years later, after graduating from my postgrad and returning to Mexico City, I had to go back to Chicago for the last National Boards Clinical Examination, to obtain my license to practice in Illinois.

I arrived a week before the test, and my former Fixed Partial Prosthodontics Program Chairman, Dr. Jekkals, sadly shook his head and told me "you are never going to find a patient with the required type of Class II carious lesion on time for the test, Max. People started looking for those patients six months ago, and some haven't found one yet."
-Oh, I think I will, Val, I said.

I immediately called Chuy, my cousin, who showed up the following morning with fifteen co-workers, all from San José. Six of them had exactly the type and size of decay I was looking for, because dental decay is a lot more prevalent in Mexico than it is in the US. I was able to keep two of them and give the other four away to my favorite former students.

-"I wasn't counting on your Mexican connection", Dr. Jekkals said.

I had a score of 98 out of a possible 100 on the test, and Jesús is now a US Citizen, and right proud of it.




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[moehawk]

There are a lot of guys working in restaurants in Chicago O'Hare airport who are from my Dad's home town in Jalisco.

Many years ago, during my postgrad in Chicago, I went to look for a cousin of mine who worked in one of those restaurants. I didn't know which, so I asked a waiter in the first place I found if he knew Jesús Valle. He shook his head, and started to walk away, so I asked him why he was being so rude. Surprised, he looked back and asked me why I was looking for Jesús. I said he was my cousin, and he didn't believe me (we look nothing alike,) so he asked me where my cousin was from, and what was his full name.

-Jesús Valle Tejeda, from San José de las Casas Caídas, Jalisco, I replied.
-And what is your name? He asked.
-Max Tejeda Nichols.
-Oh, wow, you are don Max's son? So sorry! Chuy works over there, but he will start work in half an hour.
-Why did you treat me like that?
-Oh, I thought you were an Immigration agent who spoke good Spanish. Sorry. I, too, am from San José. There's about 30 of us working at the airport.

Three years later, after graduating from my postgrad and returning to Mexico City, I had to go back to Chicago for the last National Boards Clinical Examination, to obtain my license to practice in Illinois.

I arrived a week before the test, and my former Fixed Partial Prosthodontics Program Chairman, Dr. Jekkals, sadly shook his head and told me "you are never going to find a patient with the required type of Class II carious lesion on time for the test, Max. People started looking for those patients six months ago, and some haven't found one yet."
-Oh, I think I will, Val, I said.

I immediately called Chuy, my cousin, who showed up the following morning with fifteen co-workers, all from San José. Six of them had exactly the type and size of decay I was looking for, because dental decay is a lot more prevalent in Mexico than it is in the US. I was able to keep two of them and give the other four away to my favorite former students.

-"I wasn't counting on your Mexican connection", Dr. Jekkals said.

I had a score of 98 out of a possible 100 on the test, and Jesús is now a US Citizen, and right proud of it.




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Makes sense that these little "colonies" of folks from the same area are common, as it would be much less daunting to make the trip to America (in itself an ordeal) if you were going somewhere that there were people you knew and trusted when you got there. A support structure already in place, as it were.
Funny story...the guy that complained about the Peto heat told me that when he went home to visit he spent the first week of his month vacation sick as a dog. Apparently, one of the first things he did when he got home to Mom's house was to drink a big glass of water from the kitchen faucet. Never thought he could get la turista. I told him that in his heart he was still Mexican, but his guts had turned Gringo.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Nice, here in Atizapán. Hehehe.

Just got up. I stayed up to watch Djokovic massacre Nadal in the Australian Open. [emoji22]

Watching the Farmer's Insurance Open final round in San Diego now. I hope another Spaniard will win this time. Que viva España!

I try to watch snow-free, green vegetation, make-me-forget-it's-winter events only. [emoji2]

Wearing my new Churchill Fifty.

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I’m curious, Max: what do you and Ignacio think about the Churchill Beaver 50. I love the dense felt.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I’m curious, Max: what do you and Ignacio think about the Churchill Beaver 50. I love the dense felt.

Tell the truth, I don't like its firmness. It feels a little too tough for me. When I said so to Ignacio, he told me I was an ignoramus, and that THAT was an excellent felt, that would survive my grandkids. I much prefer softer felts, but I defer to his and your superior knowledge. He and you make me appreciate it more, too.

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[drmaxtejeda]

Makes sense that these little "colonies" of folks from the same area are common, as it would be much less daunting to make the trip to America (in itself an ordeal) if you were going somewhere that there were people you knew and trusted when you got there. A support structure already in place, as it were.
Funny story...the guy that complained about the Peto heat told me that when he went home to visit spent the first week of his month vacation sick as a dog. Apparently, one of the first things he did when he got to home to Mom's house was to drink a big glass of water from the kitchen faucet. Never thought he could get la turista. I told him that in his heart he was still Mexican, but his guts had turned Gringo.

"La Turista" jajajajaja.
Yes, Yucatán is almost unbearably hot.

Children are taught in Mexico never to drink water out of the fawcet.
I, and many other Mexicans, cannot make ourselves drink it, even in the US. It is ingrained in our early education. I still flinch when I see my American friends do it.

That poses a problem for kids with Mexican parents growing up in the US, because water in America is fluoridated, and consequently those children are not protected from decay.
I tried to explain this to patients in Chicago, but most kept shaking their heads, so I ended up telling them to buy fluoridated bottled water for their kids.

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[Bill Hughes]

Teal color Champ with a 3" brim for services this morning.

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Anyone else catch the "don" part in @drmaxtejeda's story? No wonder he gets all these hats.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Anyone else catch the "don" part in @drmaxtejeda's story? No wonder he gets all these hats.

Oh, yeah. My Dad is a "garbanzo de a libra".

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[AbbaDatDeHat]

Tell the truth, I don't like it's firmness. It feels a little too tough for me. When I said so to Ignacio, he told me I was an ignoramus, and that THAT was an excellent felt, that would survive my grandkids. I much prefer softer felts, but I defer to his and your superior knowledge. He and you make me appreciate it more, too.

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The Churchill 50 is awesome Max!
Oh, i forgot you have a 100!
The Churchill 50 is awesome, the 100 awesomesome!!
B

 

[jonesy86]

There are a lot of guys working in restaurants in Chicago O'Hare airport who are from my Dad's home town in Jalisco.

Many years ago, during my postgrad in Chicago, I went to look for a cousin of mine who worked in one of those restaurants. I didn't know which, so I asked a waiter in the first place I found if he knew Jesús Valle. He shook his head, and started to walk away, so I asked him why he was being so rude. Surprised, he looked back and asked me why I was looking for Jesús. I said he was my cousin, and he didn't believe me (we look nothing alike,) so he asked me where my cousin was from, and what was his full name.

-Jesús Valle Tejeda, from San José de las Casas Caídas, Jalisco, I replied.
-And what is your name? He asked.
-Max Tejeda Nichols.
-Oh, wow, you are don Max's son? So sorry! Chuy works over there, but he will start work in half an hour.
-Why did you treat me like that?
-Oh, I thought you were an Immigration agent who spoke good Spanish. Sorry. I, too, am from San José. There's about 30 of us working at the airport.

Three years later, after graduating from my postgrad and returning to Mexico City, I had to go back to Chicago for the last National Boards Clinical Examination, to obtain my license to practice in Illinois.

I arrived a week before the test, and my former Fixed Partial Prosthodontics Program Chairman, Dr. Jekkals, sadly shook his head and told me "you are never going to find a patient with the required type of Class II carious lesion on time for the test, Max. People started looking for those patients six months ago, and some haven't found one yet."
-Oh, I think I will, Val, I said.

I immediately called Chuy, my cousin, who showed up the following morning with fifteen co-workers, all from San José. Six of them had exactly the type and size of decay I was looking for, because dental decay is a lot more prevalent in Mexico than it is in the US. I was able to keep two of them and give the other four away to my favorite former students.

-"I wasn't counting on your Mexican connection", Dr. Jekkals said.

I had a score of 98 out of a possible 100 on the test, and Jesús is now a US Citizen, and right proud of it.




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Very cool story Doc!


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[drmaxtejeda]

Very cool story Doc!


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Thank you!
Look! It took me a while, but I found a copy of my test result in an old, broken-up glass frame.
It's dated over 33 years ago. Wow!

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[scottyrocks]

By request, John Cavanagh.