When I was still manatee-esque, I tried to unsuccessfully for years to grow a goatee. No matter what I did, the thing just never took off but then again, my face was still round and rather fat. In fact I could go at least two to three days without shaving and you’d never notice much a difference.
Some 100 lbs. later, I’m having to shave daily. This got me thinking: Now that I’m a lot thinner and trying to change my self-image a bit, was it now finally time to try and grow the goatee?
I gave it some thought and, with a little urging by Ann, gave in and started to let the facial hair grow out around my mouth. For comparison purposes, here I am before the goatee:
And here is how I appear now (or at least a few weeks ago):
Is it making much of a difference? Am I not quite as dorky as I used to be without it? Ann says she likes my new look and I’ll be honest, I think I do, too. I did, however, have my reservations about it at first because for the most part, goatees seem to be worn by fat dudes trying to look cool and dickheads with tribal tattoos, but once in a while some facial hair works wonders and makes a dude look pretty bad-ass. I mean, what it did for Dave Grohl:
Facial hair or not, Grohl’s bad-ass in his own right. Unfortunately, I (or my goatee or a tattoo or earring or piercing or any other body modification) won’t ever make me as cool as he. Le sigh…
With all of that goatee madness out of the way, I gotta add this. What in the hell did Disneyland do to beef up their fireworks show? Jesus Tapdancing Christ, my windows rattle when the first ones go off at about 9:30 pm. And while I consider myself conveniently located to the place, I’m still pretty far away. Check out the [Google Earth] map below and you’ll see what I mean:
So as you can see, The Magic Kingdom isn’t exactly next door to me, but those damn fireworks are motherfarking loud even at that distance.
That’s all I got for tonight. We’re working overtime all week and possibly on Saturday so I gotta get my lazy ass to bed early each night. Not that the current time of 11 pm is early or anything…
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Holographic Meatloaf: The Official Blog of Some Guy Named Dave 
Keep the goatee. I used to have one but I shaved it off. I was sick of all the gray!
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Dude, you had more of a full beard growing, no? And yeah, I think I’ll keep it!
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I like it! And Its fuller now too!
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Yes, I know you like it 🙂
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It’s a good look. I’m a fan of both goatees and salt and pepper hair.
Dave Grohl is far more bad ass looking with the goatee though I usually don’t like them when they’re that bushy.
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I’m far too gray for 40, but at least I still have hair. I’ve seen guys my age that look much, much older because of their lack of hair. Dave Grohl is the man, goatee or not. I bow to him and glad to share the name. Now if I could only grow the long hair…nah, no chance!
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