Every now and then I remember that this website is supposed to be a record of what goes on in my life. I mentioned some time ago that I grew a beard during my bankruptcy. What I don’t seem to have posted about is that after the bankruptcy was over, I did indeed celebrate by shaving, but then I grew it back. I still have it:

The thing is, I got a lot of compliments on the beard at the time, plus it is actually easier to have a beard than to fully shave. I’m lazy, so that appeals. But what really cemented my role as a beard-haver is that I have two little niblings now who only know me as a bearded person. I want to be the uncle they recognize, so any sudden changes to my style are not welcome. The only time I’ve fully shaved in the last few years was when I knew I had two weeks without work or family commitments, so I shaved it all and let it grew back over that fortnight.

I’m not saying I’ll be bearded forever on. As the kids grow they will be more accepting of varying levels of hirsuteness. And if some weird scenario happened, like the President of Star Trek saying I’d be allowed to play an alien on Star Trek but I had to shave all the hair on my head, obviously I’d do that. But for now, I guess I’m a bearded guy.

Even though it is perfectly common for me to go weeks without making a non-scheduled post on the site here, I feel like I should explain my current span of weeks in which I won’t be posting. I’ve had to move again, and as a result I am currently without Internet for a while.

For the last few years I have lived in an apartment above what is, to my generation, still known as the Video Difference building in Halifax. I liked it and it was nice to live in a Haligonian landmark of sorts. And for the fifteen years prior to that, I had an apartment just across the street from that, so for almost half of my life I’ve lived on Quinpool Road. I like it there and still think of it as my neighbourhood.

But, a victim of the whims of capitalism as I am and as are we all, I have had to move about two blocks away. It’s fine, though inconvenient. I’ll get by, because what other choice do I have?

Haiku!

Why can’t turtles fly?
Because if they were up there,
they would not be here?

Anyway, I am also about to change my Internet service provider, which is part of the reason for the delay I am currently going through. I would have happily continued to pay the city’s most expensive provider if they’d managed to make the switch right away, but they didn’t so I’m going with someone cheaper. Hopefully in the long run, that will help.