Addressing the hair issue
Jun. 11th, 2024 11:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertBack 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
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