April 13, 2003
The Week in Review
A couple of house cleaning notes.
First, I think I figured out how to shrink my image size on embedded photos so that it won't take so long for all the images to come up when you first come to this site. However, these new, speedier images will only be incorporated from this point forward, so it still may be a little clunky until the older entries drop of the scroll. A tip of the hat to Mark Wilkie for that one. There will be more on the greatness of Mark in another entry at some point.
Second, again thanks to Mark, we now have registered a domain name as www.oldshawfarm.com. Before we go totally public with that as our farm name, I need to check with the last remaining Shaw descendent to see if it is Ok with her. But "Old Shaw Farm" has developed a certain momentum in the last few weeks as our farm/business name, so I think that is where we are heading. Anyway, you can now get to this site from www.oldshawfarm.com, or you can use whatever you already had bookmarked.
Third, I am sorry I didn't follow up on one issue, but I did in fact get my haircut.
So it is back to the Marine Corps doo for the summer.
Lastly, I have had a blast doing this. Thanks for reading and commenting.
I applaud Pete's decision to cut his hair, though I would have applauded just as loud if he made a considered decision to keep it long. I applaud his willingness to stay engaged with this damn Griffin boy hair, keeping up the fight and trying to find a way to make it look good. I have given up, and decided it looks goofy short and long (I think we're related to David Letterman).
Pete and I could have a good contest digging up snapshots to see which one of us let their hair go the furthest extreme. I am handicapped, because I no longer have the college ID that captured my look after 18 months of not washing my hair (but still carefully combing it daily - no dreads for me!) plus a shitty little mustache that never really did come in (another Griffin boy hair curse).
I gave that ID to a local restaurant to hang on their wall of regular customers. They claim to have lost it.
And I gave that ID to them completely sincere in my belief that I looked pretty damn sharp in that picture. It is amazing how a ridiculous hairstyle can creep up on you. When it comes in day by day it is easy to lose perspective. There ought to be a word for that phenomenon. Maybe the Germans have one?
There should be a word for that and there should be a word for really needing to go to the bathroom. It struck me today that really needing to go to the bathroom is a huge human concern and yet if I went to the library to get a book about it I wouldn't even know where to look. Psychology? Biology? They're both in there, and anthropology would have something to add as well.
I can't believe that you can get a degree in podiatry and you can't get one in really needing to go to the bathroom. Is there even one book in the library about really needing to go to the bathroom?
Hope this is helpful.
I'm telling you, the babes like it long!
Oh well. As it grows, if you like a part, trying putting in a little of John Barrett's Bee Hold; you'll look sharp all day.
I just bought a 36" TV from a guy in my office. My life has just changed in ways I couldn't even fathom. All of a sudden the Dallas - Edmonton hockey game got a lot more interesting. Wahoo!!!!!
Posted by: mike, pgg brother at April 13, 2003 10:06 PM