Tidied veranda and face

Back on Monday, Jan. 9th, I stayed home from work (as usual for Mondays) and rearranged the veranda with Tall Guy. Due to the painting of my office in the Social Science department (separate from my ''work office''), I had to vacate. Rather than request a different office, I just decided to haul everything home. Took all of last week, ferrying home a back seat plus boot (or ''trunk'') full every day after work. But, didn't have to come in on an extra day to do it, so it worked out well.

OTOH, it overloaded our home's capacity for boxes. So, TG and I reckoned we'd have to sort, tidy, and generally re-arrange the veranda. In preparation for this, on Sunday we spent the afternoon clearing out one of the old sheds in the backyard. One full wall, two partial walls (about shoulder-height), and no front (just the vertical joists and the door). Some rotton floorboards, but we just laid planks across the rotten bits and figured it'd hold until the new house gets built. The floor joists seemed fine.

But, I got so hot and sweaty hauling things around that I decided to shave off the facial hair, plus shorten the scalp hair.

Before:

However, despite my having lived here for over two years, I still don't have a fully-intuitive sense of the metric system. Thought I'd grab a narrower spacer for my electric clippers than usual, since the aim was to stay cool. ''9mm -- sounds good!'' Took a swipe, realized that was a tad short -- but, too late -- had to keep going.

After:

(Thanks to The Lady for taking the pics!)


It's been a week and a half, and I'm (mostly) used to it -- although a bit more receding and grey and I remember. ;)

I think my forehead shape resembles my maternal grandfather's.


--GG