An Afterthought Unrelated

Why is it, pray tell, one must rest up from a vacation? I've been back a week and I'm still exhausted.

I cut my hair for the first time since I was in second grade. I've had trims, of course, and have trimmed it myself over the past few years whenever I get tired of sitting on it. But this time, I had it cut SHORT.
Not quite post-chemo short, but short short. Not-touching-collar short. One-style no-braids short.

Let's see, if my math is right, I was in second grade about 46 years ago. So I've had some time to become accustomed to long hair.

In a way it was liberating. I can brush it without throwing my back out. I can wash it and condition it in two minutes flat - less if I don't follow the instructions on the conditioner bottle and let it set for one minute or more. My brush is not harvesting hanks of hair twice a day, most gray, some red, some brown - all long. I keep doing double-takes at the mirror though. To my eyes, I look much older. Ironically, everyone who has seen it says I look ten years younger.

Change is good, if one can handle change without setting up too much expectation. I suppose, in that regard, a radical change of hairstyle does relate to game design.. in some strange remote manner.