When we found out that we got the apartment in Portland, we were both very excited. But today I learned that we are moving in earlier than expected: tomorrow. It's just two days, but it's two very exciting days ( Read more... )

This morning I finally got fed up with my handlebar moustache and trimmed it back to a normal, ordinary moustache. It’s perhaps a bit smaller than it will be in the end, simply because all the hairs at the outer ends still wanted to poke out horizontally and curl, when I just want them to droop like ordinary moustache hairs. The short era of the ( Read more... )

Late last week I went to Medford’s new Walgreens to explore and check it out. I hadn’t been in one of those fine drugstores since the last time I was in San Francisco, at least. While there I bought some Clubman Moustache Wax and some other goodies. Overall, Walgreens never feels quite as comfortable to me as Rite Aid, probably because I grew up ( Read more... )

Yesterday I picked up some Clubman moustache wax and tried to use it, only to discover that my moustache is still a little bit too short for any exciting handlebar action. However, I am feeling fairly confident that I’ll get a bit of a curl on the tips by Christmas, or New Year’s Eve at the latest ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of weeks now, and my moustache looks sufficiently like a moustache that H- walked into the house the other day and said to me, "Holy shit, you've got a moustache!" , but not enough like handlebars that enthusiastic cyclists have tried to ride me like a pennyfarthing (but boy, am I looking forward to that day). In a fit of ( Read more... )

I've been growing my moustache for 10 or 11 days now, and it's gotten to the point where it's looking like maybe I missed a spot shaving on purpose for many days. Actually it's starting to feel sort of hairy up there. It's hard to describe, if you've never had a moustache, but there's a point at which you can just sort of feel hair doing curious ( Read more... )

This weekend I decided to grow a moustache. I'd been reading about maintaining and growing really impressive upper-lip appendages at the Handlebar Club website, and it seemed like a fun thing to try. So I'm growing a moustache ( Read more... )