Mocs sound good to me! :-) I used to wear 'em all the time. Now I have things resembling such but though they're a fairly well-known brand name they've gone and lined the damn things with some kinda artificial "stuff" that makes them too darn hot to wear most of the time, and instead of the laces part going around the back like my old ones did they have 'em going to a stupid knot on either side! That way you _can't_ get 'em tight. I've been giving serious thought to taking them apart one of these days... :-)
Those would probably be nice enough for really cold weather, but you need some for everyday.
Yeah, those times I wore 'em I wore 'em *every* day, all over the darn place, when I was in my traveling days. The stiches right behind the heel used to wear through, so I also carried a spool of that "button & carpet thread" to fix that little problem with. These were the ones that the boy scouts used to sell as a kit...
These ones I have now are just too darn warm to wear most of the time.
And I'll bet the ties could be redone without too much trouble.
I'm trying to figure out a way to do it without having to un-do that bit at the rear and sew it back again. Though I may just end up doing that if I get aggravated enough at how loose these are.
I can make you a pair of unlined mocs easily. If you wanted to send me your old ones, I could fix them and use them to size a new pair. What would it be worth to you? 
Good question. Maybe we ought to be kicking this around in email.
Myrkul has made me a deal to install the linux stuff on the hard drive, so I think that's taken care of.
I was thinking about that and the part that occures to me that might get a little tricky is setting things up to make sure all of the rest of your hardware is working okay. There are always some installation-specific bits that the install handles that sometimes get to be more of a PITA to deal with later. Sometimes.
What I will need is to find someone to come make sure it all works and network these two boxes. Then I'll be cooking with gas!!
Yeah. Networking just two boxes isn't hard. If you have a hub you just plug 'em both in, or if you don't and you only want to connect those two boxes you need what's called a "crossover cable" to do it with, it's just wired slightly differently. The fiddly bits with the software is the other part. It depends on what you want to share, a bunch of stuff on both boxes going both ways gets the most complicated.
I've not yet removed the hard drive to send to Myrkul because I can't figure out how to save some of the stuff on it to disk. Each time I try it, I get a message box saying it is not allowed. I don't remember just what it says... need to try again and write it down. I gave up a few months ago. Hate to just lose that stuff, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. Just have to make up my mind and rip the thing out to get it into the mail.
Are you running XP there? What kind of stuff are you trying to save? I don't know much about XP, but my "recent acquisition" is a laptop that runs it and I think that rather than just nuking it I'm going to try for a dual-boot setup so I can maybe learn a bit about it. It's my understanding that there's some kind of administrative account you need to get into to do some stuff on it.
Maybe you could take the hard drive out of it and temporarily hook it up in the other machine? Then it'd be just a matter of copying files from one hard drive to the other, which should be easy enough, I'd think.