Weird Beard

So I kept getting certain references on the joke beard today. Of course, I was compared to some guy in a Guy Fawkes mask

Colonel Sanders

But the one that really surprised me was Vladimir Lenin


So, of course, I started making jokes like "Well, a Hitler mustache would be tasteless...but c'mon, it's a Lenin goatee!"




(and I'm sort of thinking of keeping it now.)

De-Bearding: Phase 1

About once a year or so I get the urge to shave off whatever facial hair I've got (I end up growing it back a week or so later), but it's been a while.

So I was talking about it to a friend the other day, and they convinced me that I had to do something ridiculous, and get through at least one work-day with it.

So, the before:

And, the after:


Dear god, it's almost growing on me.

Cyclery, Week 7

Need new routes. That 16 mile one is losing interest.

7/31: -
8/1: 16m
8/2: -
8/3: -
8/4: 16m
8/5: 16m
8/6: 16m

Week Total: 64.0m
Overall Total: 410.7m
Miles to go to meet summer goal: 89.3m

thoughts...

Still laugh every time I watch this.



And more... (some overlap, sure)

(I know, you're thinking, can't I just hear this whole story at once? And I say, "c'mon, I'm linking this stuff off youtube, what can I do?")

I know you're thinking "Oh, some crappy stand-up comic", right? Ok, maybe, but this guy used to sing for ye olde punk rock band Black Flag, and listening to his spoken word stuff had its hand into warping me a little back in my youth. (I can find people that'd be willing to give depositions that his spoken word stuff stuck a little too hard, trust me.)

Cyclery, Week 6

Sick day Monday, got home late today, so not as far as I'd aimed, but still a solid week.

7/24: 16m
7/25: 19.2m
7/26: -
7/27: -
7/28: 16m
7/29: 16m
7/30: -

Week Total: 67.2m
Overall Total: 346.7m
Miles to go to meet summer goal: 153.3m

Ways to torment a cat #547

Grilling

I have been friends with this person for over 17 years, and I think this might be the first time we've ever been in a picture together.



It's no wonder.

Oh, bloody hell...

This is the nicest article I've read yet

But holy fucking shit, can we get over this already?

Hey, how about some mockery?

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Cyclery, Week 5

Made up a little for not riding as far I'd hoped the past two weeks, with the longest week yet. Getting a little easier, and even the 19.2m ride was doable (though I almost completely ran out of steam near the end of it)

7/17: 16m
7/18: 19.2m
7/19: -
7/20: 12.5m
7/21: -
7/22: 16m
7/23: 16m

Week Total: 79.7m
Overall Total: 279.5m
Miles to go to meet summer goal: 220.5m

Future was free

And when the shift was over and you tapped me on the shoulder for attention...
You broke the stare that I had found myself a comfort zone into.

It wasn't funny but the act of wasting money was tradition...
And present company had narrowed all the options left to do.

A recent study asked the laymen all their opinions...
And with a small degree of error they were all the same.

And there was nothing left to feel, for us to know...
The Pain, the Pleasure, the Highs, the Lows...
And there was no one left who cared enough to make the claim:

And now the future was free, and the present exciting
(Come On!) as we both began to sacrifice the past in effigy...

The mood was daring so we spent the evening sharing our convictions,
uneasy moments quickly shifted conversation back to you.

And though we're grinning I can see a fresh beginning of dissention.
Although the awkwardness of make-believe was hardly something new.

It seemed the perfect time to start up with a new addiction...
To pass the time obsessing over something new.

And there was nothing left to feel, for us to know...
The Pain, the Pleasure, the Highs, the Lows...
and the time we spent in silence was the last thing left to do.

And now the future was free, and the present exciting
(Come On!) as we both began to sacrifice the past in effigy...

And now the future was free, and the present exciting
(Come On!) as we both began to sacrifice the past in effigy...
)
It was degrading, but I was appreciating the attention, (Yeah!)
the simple words and gestures were the safety that we hide behind...

It wasn't spoken but the time elapse has broken the affection
And knowing failure was an option gave the only piece of mind...

And now the future was free and the present exciting...
And soon the past will always leave an open doorway...
Back to you, to you, to you.

(tub ring)