Addressing the hair issue

Back from the Ranch.  The puppies are happy and I lasted nearly two hours.  Got a bunch of them out and about and it was good for me.  I don't really feel sore but am going to shower and ice.  And rest. 

In the 1960's I let my hair grow.  Me and the rest of the male population who were not from Oklahoma.  It created conflict as it was, I guess, supposed to do.  Off and on through the years I had it short again but when I changed schools to one in Massachusetts the crowd all had long hair so I let it go.  Used to grow ice on the wet strands as I walked to breakfast after a shower.  Then college, of course.  I was in the theater so my hair followed the part I had but grew long when it was not involved.

That continued until 1980 when I went into the Navy.  I had hair down to my shoulders and intentionally gave the barbers there a kick to let them cut it.  Twenty years later (that's about 250 military haircuts) I retired and it grew out again.

I cut it when I started a business here in Texas and wore it fairly short until I'd established myself and had a network of people who knew me.
 
Sometime in 2006 I stopped getting a haircut and grew it long enough to tie it back.  I've had a pony tail ever since.  Really I just hate getting my hair cut.  It is a PIA and an expensive one.  I calculated that I'd saved more than $8k by cutting it myself.  I just pull up the pony tail over my head and trim it.  Been doing that for 18 years.

For some reason I don't really know I decided to get it cut.  I do kind of miss the days when I could just brush my hair with my hand and it would be dry and in place.  

So I've got an appointment for a haircut and beard trim tomorrow.  I don't think it will last.  If we had a military base close by I'd likely keep it short.  But for what they charge to cut hair I really can't afford to keep it too short.  So I'll likely grow it back.

But it will make it easier for post surgery and I'll look good going in.

I had to wait for David Crosby to die before I could really consider it.  https://youtu.be/4Lk2KHajp4Y?si=QW4xgkPG821UloG9

Doubledipping

I was accepted into CloudResearch today and have done a couple of surveys.  It is pretty much the Prolific of the U.S.  Different site set up but pretty much the same.  It did not take me hardly any time to get set up although I've still got 50 or so demographic questions to answer. 

The payout connection took me seconds.  Click on PayPal connection and it automatically signed me in (I've got that set up on my PC that PayPal automatically accesses).  Didn't ask me for any proof of ID or anything like that.  I think they put that on PayPal.

EDIT:  After writing this, CR did ask me to use my driver's license to prove who I was.

The IRS is going to catch up with all this eventually.

I can dump my PayPal ledger end of year and declare the money.  It won't be too much and I will likely be writing if off in crypto losses.