A wounded sole

During training I noticed the soles of my favorite shoes were cracking and disintegrating.

This is extremely disheartening. My mutant feet are rarely completely-happy in footwear, especially work-acceptable footwear.

I pretty much have some boots that work, my beer-drinking slip-on shoe/slippers, and some flip-flops at this point. The weather is too hot for boots and the rest... well, they present problems of their own in the workplace.

I have other shoes, but they always rub the foot wrong, either along the heel or along the outer toes. I've tried gel inserts and what-not, but those never stay in-place and never seem to do the trick.

Time to do some shoe shopping again, I suppose. Sigh.