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Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.

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SIGNYM:
Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.


SIX: Well... it actually is quite easy to do with the right tool.

When Covid lockdowns and rules came to our town my choice was to either start shaving my head again or growing it out. Now it's just been over 2 years without a haircut for me.

I went about 2 years without a haircut back during the drinking days by shaving my own head. That was a bit tricky to do at first because I only have a single pane medicine cabinet mirror and the previous time I did it there were 3 panes, but I was able to manage with a 2nd mirror I could hold in one hand while I shaved over the sink with the other.

The biggest problem of doing it on my own was that there was no way I could properly trim and blend the "fuzzy" hair down by my neck on my own since everything gets reversed and weird in mirrors, so I had to shave the whole head EXTREMELY short in order to get them. So short that I didn't want to even go out of the house for a few days because besides the fact I have no tattoos, I looked like a neo-nazi, so I'd always plan to do it when nothing was pending and I'd stocked up on stuff. (This was like scratchy short, not the cool plush toy short you're talking about.

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And yes, I love that feeling, not just on the fingers but how it feels on the head too. When I wrestled back in high school the girl I was dating loved playing with it when the whole team shaved their heads and I could just let her rub it all day long).

If I could manage to shave my own, I'm sure it would be quick and easy if somebody were doing it for you. You'd just have to make sure they took care to properly trim and blend any neck hair fuzzies if you've got them so you can get a longer shave than I was able to do for myself.

I'd recommend a good pair of hair clippers like they have at the salon. I had a very old one of my mom's, probably from like the 70's or something. It had seen better days and would sometimes PULL instead of cut. Ow.

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I hear you about how easy it was. I miss those days. I was too tired to shower after the long day yesterday and now I have to do it this morning before my dentist appointment. Showers are about 3 times longer now that my hair is down to my shoulder blades, and I have to let it dry for a long time before going out.

What a pain.

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SIX: Glad to hear that your hair is coming back. That's never a question though, is it?

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SIX: P.S. I know it will be painful, but I can't wait for my bi-yearly root scaling and plaining today. Without walking out of the haircut place and having that good feeling after getting a good haircut, my only similar experience these days is walking out with a clean mouth. But it is like 100 times a better feeling, so it kind of makes up for it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Unfortunately I'm going to have to figure out something else with the shelving. I know my neighbor had a few 2x4's in his garage that I was using to jack it up when I replaced some plates before he had it mud jacked, so I'm hoping he's still got them. My friend and his old man might have some spares lying around too.

I refuse to pay $7.30 for a standard 8 foot length of 2x4. When we framed out my porch windows last fall it was $3.04, and that was overpriced.

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SIGNYM:
Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.


SIX: Well... it actually is quite easy to do with the right tool.

When Covid lockdowns and rules came to our town my choice was to either start shaving my head again or growing it out. Now it's just been over 2 years without a haircut for me.

I went about 2 years without a haircut back during the drinking days by shaving my own head. That was a bit tricky to do at first because I only have a single pane medicine cabinet mirror and the previous time I did it there were 3 panes, but I was able to manage with a 2nd mirror I could hold in one hand while I shaved over the sink with the other.

The biggest problem of doing it on my own was that there was no way I could properly trim and blend the "fuzzy" hair down by my neck on my own since everything gets reversed and weird in mirrors, so I had to shave the whole head EXTREMELY short in order to get them. So short that I didn't want to even go out of the house for a few days because besides the fact I have no tattoos, I looked like a neo-nazi, so I'd always plan to do it when nothing was pending and I'd stocked up on stuff. (This was like scratchy short, not the cool plush toy short you're talking about.

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haha! You know, too!
I wear slouchy beanies and watchcaps when I go out so I don't scare the neighbors, and indoors and at night, too, if the weather is cool.

That's the one downside to real short hair: a cold head. Honestly, I don't know how guys stand it.

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Yeah... Although I'd have to imagine that as a woman you'd be more self conscious about it.

I told my buddy who never had shaved it that you get a lot of hard looks from people as a white dude with a shaved head and it wasn't until we were out somewhere doing something one day that he said, "wow, you're right". Even short, I'm a fairly imposing figure, and although I don't have tats all over the place there's something about putting a shaved head up top that (I assume) puts up red flags for other males in the vicinity that I'm a possible threat. Not just black dudes. White dudes too.

I don't think I'll ever be shaving my head again just because I don't feel like being on high alert myself because I'm drawing such attention to myself. IMO, me going out with a shaved head is even worse than going out with a political T-shirt in our current environment.


But since you're wearing beanies in 100 degrees sunlight, you probably come off as the cool Grandma that listens to alternative music.

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And yes, I love that feeling, not just on the fingers but how it feels on the head too. When I wrestled back in high school the girl I was dating loved playing with it when the whole team shaved their heads and I could just let her rub it all day long).

If I could manage to shave my own, I'm sure it would be quick and easy if somebody were doing it for you. You'd just have to make sure they took care to properly trim and blend any neck hair fuzzies if you've got them so you can get a longer shave than I was able to do for myself.

I'd recommend a good pair of hair clippers like they have at the salon. I had a very old one of my mom's, probably from like the 70's or something. It had seen better days and would sometimes PULL instead of cut. Ow.

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Oh, yeah, ow! is right. I had a pair of scissors like that.

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Yeah. The yankers aren't fun. It wasn't too much of a problem if I didn't let the hair grow too much before shavings, but since I was shaving it so short I didn't want to shave it too often either.

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I hear you about how easy it was. I miss those days. I was too tired to shower after the long day yesterday and now I have to do it this morning before my dentist appointment. Showers are about 3 times longer now that my hair is down to my shoulder blades, and I have to let it dry for a long time before going out.

What a pain.

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"Back in the day" ... when I was younger... the texture of my hair was "medium" (each strand neither real thick nor real thin) and "wavy", but I had about 2-3X the amount of hair on my head as most people ... maybe more. When my hair was shoulder-blade length and I was playing racquetball nearly every day and doing field work, my hair never really dried from one day to the next, even in SoCal weather. It WAS a pain. Eventually, I had it cut shorter.

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Ahhhh... "Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded."

I remember when I had finally let my hair grow back out after 2 or 3 years of shaving it and thinking "where did the rest of it go!!!".

I'm far from bald and I get a lot of compliments on my hair which is nice in my going-on-mid 40's. but it used to be so thick I could barely run a brush through it. I think every year or two that passes my forehead gets about one millimeter larger too. :(

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SIX: Glad to hear that your hair is coming back. That's never a question though, is it?

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It took so long to be visible that I was beginning to wonder! SOME people (rarely) never get their hair back, but it IS rare.

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I didn't know that was a thing. Glad you've still got it.

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SIX: P.S. I know it will be painful, but I can't wait for my bi-yearly root scaling and plaining today. Without walking out of the haircut place and having that good feeling after getting a good haircut, my only similar experience these days is walking out with a clean mouth. But it is like 100 times a better feeling, so it kind of makes up for it.

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There's nothing quite like having a good dental cleaning, even if you brush your teeth really well. For me, having a good cleaning feels like it scratches a subtle "itch" around my gumline. Feels great!

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We need to go under the gums, I'm afraid. I think my hygienist was a spelunker in a past life.

A few pinches here and there while she does the sonic treatment, but I just let her do it without interruption to get that part done and it's all cake after that. I decided that next time I go I'm going to take some before pics. I won't share them here, or probably not with anybody else for that matter, but I'm amazed at how great they look and feel when I go home and would love to have some before pictures to look at. Not only do I smoke, but all that coffee I drink leaves stains too no matter how often I brush.

The great news is that there's hardly any calculus to remove every 6 months and it's mostly just the stains. It looks as though the bone degeneration is well under control as long as I see her every 6 months and keep doing what I'm doing in between.

Still no cavities after 42 years too.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hispanics with shaved heads get the same hard looks. Now that I think about it, so do blacks and Asians. Even cops. It seems to be a universal red flag that says "I'm a gangbanger (of some type)". Unless you're wearing fatigues which is an automatic excuse for a shaved head. I assume bc people unconsciously seem to understand that no hair = no handhold in street fighting. Like clipping the ears of fighting dogs.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Missed the rain coming home but couldn't avoid the hail that came around 11am. Got so much of it that it blocked the windows in the mall roof. There was so much it looked like snow.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
9 hours, 12 feet off the ground scraping, wire brushing and cleaning out some really old school steel gutters today for my buddy's dad. I don't think I've ever been on a ladder that long in one day. It's a full body workout.

He owes me big for that one.

I'm toast. Going to bed early tonight, and that dinner is going to taste great.

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Missed the rain coming home but couldn't avoid the hail that came around 11am. Got so much of it that it blocked the windows in the mall roof. There was so much it looked like snow.

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Now THAT'S intense weather!!
Do you get tornadoes so close to the ocean? Bc that sounded like tornado weather to me!


Here in the flatlands of LA, it was 70ish, sunny, clear, and very VERY breezy with gusts up to 30 mph. Quite nice, actually, but I decided that any sweeping/raking/watering/ digging would just be blown around, so I did indoor stuff instead. Mostly dishes and tidying up and paperwork, but with dear daughter's estimable help we managed to get a bunch of seeds potted: three kinds of tomatoes, three kinds of peppers (two hot and one sweet), muskmelon, and okra. All heat and disease resistant. A little late, but better late than never. Got them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I'll get beets and zucchini from the nursery.

Tomorrow yardwork I guess, assuming the wind has died down. (It usually does, we have few windy days in the flatlands.) There's so much to do I'm not sure where to start. Raking up the fallen avocado leaves and pine needles, I guess.

Or maybe digging some weeds out of the lawn and weed- whacking in prep for mowing?

Raking, I think. Won't finish but I can make a good start

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9 hours, 12 feet off the ground scraping, wire brushing and cleaning out some really old school steel gutters today for my buddy's dad. I don't think I've ever been on a ladder that long in one day. It's a full body workout.

He owes me big for that one.

I'm toast. Going to bed early tonight, and that dinner is going to taste great.

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That's a metric fuck-ton of work, SIX. You're right: he owes you, big time.

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Heh. Yeah.

Got a bit of a kink in my neck right now I'm hoping to work out today.

I know he wanted me back to paint them today and I told him we'll play it by ear. There's 97% chance of rain with thunderstorms, so I don't think I'll be doing that today.

I need to get back out in my garage right now anyhow and try to make more progress and work around the fact I probably only have enough 2x4's to make 4 more shelving units right now. He nor his son had any scrap 2x4's. I'm hoping my neighbor still does.

I'm going to be putting grout marker to my aunt's shower in her new apartment and fixing a few odds and ends on Thursday, and the rest of the day into Friday I'll be making some repairs at my grandma's house.

I REALLY need to get that garage moving so I can work on my car and I can order all the mulch/rock/dirt that's on sale until Saturday.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, a Spring blizzard is heading for Southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and into Ontario. News showed people in Winnipeg stocking up incase they get snowed in.

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Well, a Spring blizzard is heading for Southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and into Ontario. News showed people in Winnipeg stocking up incase they get snowed in.

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Uggggh.... Be safe Brenda.

Over 70 and thunderstorms all day today. I thought we were getting whatever you're getting but the forecast here got a bit warmer, although it looks like plenty of rain in the 40's starting Sunday.



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Back from mah jong and it was a good morning. I got 1st place and a member of the group returned. This lady had a stroke last year but she was determined to come back.

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Back from mah jong and it was a good morning. I got 1st place and a member of the group returned. This lady had a stroke last year but she was determined to come back.

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I'm happy for both of you!!


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Originally posted by SignyM:
Talking elevators. What does it say?

"Please stand clear of door"
"First floor, going up (or down)"?

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SignyM:
Talking elevators. What does it say?
"Please stand clear of door"
"First floor, going up (or down)"?


BRENDA: Yup. Nothing that dramatic SIG.
It just says, "Lobby" when it reaches the lobby or "parking" when it gets to where the parking and garbage is. Coming back in today it said, "10th floor" when I got off on my floor which is 10.

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Have to say that Duncan and Jimmy are quite the pair. Duncan is just a disaster and Jimmy is trying so hard.

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SignyM:
Talking elevators. What does it say?
"Please stand clear of door"
"First floor, going up (or down)"?


BRENDA: Yup. Nothing that dramatic SIG.
It just says, "Lobby" when it reaches the lobby or "parking" when it gets to where the parking and garbage is. Coming back in today it said, "10th floor" when I got off on my floor which is 10.

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That's practical. The talking elevators at my health care facility say "Please stand clear of door" ... but nothing as useful a what floor you're on!!

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Have to say that Duncan and Jimmy are quite the pair. Duncan is just a disaster and Jimmy is trying so hard.

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Duncan, Duncam tsk tsk

Seems like Jimmy is always picking up the pieces from Duncan's bad decisions, including a wife and daughter.

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Rocks?

SIX, I had to look back and see what you wanted to do with rocks. How big are you talking about? River rocks? Boulders? Trying to picture.

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River rocks. Standard size, I guess?

I just moved over 8,800 pounds of earth a few miles today all by myself. And I didn't even start until after 1 PM. I still got it.

Could have used a warmer day though. Really getting tired of winter holding on for so long. At least it wasn't raining or snowing though...

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A word about rocks - they're hard to weed between/around.

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I will be putting down fabric AND visqueen before the rocks go down. I know they won't hold up forever, but I should get quite a few years out of them before I have to start spraying the rocks for weeds.

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Also, if you have voles, moles, ground squirrels etc accessing the tunnels can be rough. And any in-ground repair you might need to do would require moving them out if the way.

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I have a plan for all of that. I'm literally ages away from actually being able to use any of the rocks yet, but I've got a huge sand pit to put them on for the time being while I shore up everything else. I simply couldn't pass up the deal today. Less than $2 per 48lb bag instead of $5 per bag is a no brainer.

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But they DO look nice!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Thanks Brenda.


I really probably should just lay down today. I am in a bit of pain. But I've been waking up so early these days that I might not be able to get back to sleep now.

I forgot to do the conversions for you (you guys use meters and kilograms, right?)

I moved over 3992 kilograms of rocks yesterday that was 2.69 cubic meters.

My days in retail finally paid off with the chest-high stack I have out in the sand pit that is locked together in a brick pattern. An earthquake could hit us and I don't think it would fall into my house.



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