11/07/2008

Yeeps! Two Months?


*poof* [blows off dust]

Um, yeh. It's been a while since I've posted here.

Very, very short reason: I went back to work at the end of August, supplementing my retirement (the monthly retirement check covers a lot of our monthly expenses, but not, alas, all of them) as a security guard for a company that provides security for a number of shopping malls across the country. This has cut back into my free time a lot.

I've meant to post a number of entries, discussing the several months between retirement and going back to work, and also discussing the new work experience. (Short take: More interesting than I thought it would be. On the other hand, from the company's point of view, a boring day is a good day; there are a lot of good days.)

I may yet get those posts finished and online; I'd like to.

In the meantime, though: One of the reguirements of working security, alas, was that I had to shave off the beard I'd had for 33 years.

Yes, this was traumatic. And Hilde had never seen me clean-shaven before. (When we were visiting my mother around the end of September, Hilde said to her, "It's like I've been sleeping with a strange man for the last month." To which, of course, I replied, "Hilde, you've been sleeping with a strange man for more than thirty years.")

I took before-and-after photos. I just want to say in advance, about the clean-shaven version, "This is not my real face."



To me, it's no contest; the bearded guy looks like me, the clean-shaven guy doesn't. And, in spite of the beard having been close to completely white, I think the bearded guy looks considerably younger than the grumpy-looking shaven guy.

Hopefully, more posts in days to come.

7 comments:

talpianna said...

Ah, the memories...

http://tinyurl.com/5umr78

Anonymous said...

I think the unbearded guy probably looks more friendly to strangers.

(And thanks for the picture!)

talpianna said...

Actually, Marilee, I thought he looked more like a serial killer!

Anonymous said...

LOL It still looks friendlier to me.

Anonymous said...

BTW, talpianna, do I know you in another context? There can't be that many cats named Sethra!

talpianna said...

Marilee--probably: Lunatic Cafe, Dictionary.com.forum, Evil Editor, Word Wenches, Teach Me Tonight, Argh Ink, and Query Shark are some of the sites I frequent.

WV: fluntics--Would-be lunatics who passed their mental competency hearings.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Bruce. I have known him for almost as long as he and Hilde have been married and the bearded guy is BD. The other one is a total stanger or totally strange but not in a BD sort of way.

Hi to both Bruce and Hilde.

Terry Berry