happy new year!

It's Frobuary 1, YOMHC 0x38.

It's the end of an era and the dawn of a new one (crap, my comma key is unresponsive. oh wait, it appears to be fixed): no more mohawk. there were several factors that went into this decision:

1) the mohawk is a binary choice: either i have one or i don't. my barber doesn't know how to trim. at least, i don't care to find out if she does.
2) it was getting unruly, as my hair does when it reaches length.
3) i could never find the gorram hair tie thingies, and upon finding one, i'd promptly lose it. i'll miss the samurai look, though.
4) i was browsing old photos of me for upload to teh facebook. i decided that i looked much better with either a young mohawk (once again easily within my grasp) or some variant of very short hair.
5) i'm going to go with a bald look real soon, this will ease me in to it.
6) and finally, importantly: i'm going to have a charlie chaplin mustache soon, and with the large combover mohawk, i really did have a reasonable chance of being mistaken for someone attempting to look like this douchebag.

anyhow, i haven't adjusted to the minimal shampoo requirements, i still used way too much. the required amount has been slowly creeping up for months as the middle part got longer.