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So I got to hang out in southern Iowa (outside Osceola, for those counting) at my Grandma Glazebrook’s place over the weekend. I had a really good time, and got to see a lot of family I hadn’t seen in over a year. My uncle Rod was back (family in tow) from Ohio, and uncle Rick came all the way down from the next house over to join in the festivities as well. Amanda came with, making the trip her first time meeting That Side of the family. They treated her nice enough. Then again, that ~is~ the nice side. ;)

Things done in Osceola: I ate a hamburger, followed almost immediately with a steak, cause I’m hardcore like that. I played briefly with the chickens, because I always liked the chickens when I stayed with Grandma Glazebrook back in the day. Amanda got to see her first baby calves up-close, and even got them to suck on her fingers, so that was pretty cool (though I have no idea how I forgot to take a picture of this!). I neglected to have any cake, because I’m doing that whole diet thing, but Amanda assured me that the cake was horrible and dry and the frosting tasted an awful lot like calf saliva - of course, she may have just forgotten to wash her hands. I also got to see cousins (second cousins? Aunt and uncle? Beats me) Diana and Heath for the first time in a long time: it seems they’ve grown up in my absence.

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So I got a haircut today. I know you can’t see it, but I did. I don’t have a picture of it yet, but it turned out pretty well, I think. If I get bored at home later tonight (highly unlikely), maybe I’ll post a photo of the cut to this here entry. We’ll see.

The rest of my evening? Well, after work Amanda and I are going to head home, be-leash the dog, head to obedience class, drop the dog off after class, remove the topmost layer of dog fur from our clothes, and head out to Centro to ~finally~ celebrate our anniversary, 10 days late (the family barbeque took place of our previous celebration plans). After that, we’re going to head home, whereupon I’ll start doing laundry and packing bags like a madman in preparation for my lil’ trippy-poo tomorrow morning. If anyone feels like stalking my flight, I’ll be taking Northwest flight #4726 from Des Moines to Minneapolis at noon tomorrow, then sitting around for four hours and probably eating unhealthily before taking flight #161 from Minneapolis to Seattle around 5:15pm.

I doubt I get a chance to write again before I’m in Seattle, so until I return… miss me! :)

So I got a haircut this weekend. Chop-chop, bye-bye Robby LongHair. I’m a member of the short-hairs club again. I’d post a picture, but that seems to be tougher than you’d think. I was going to take a picture with my camera, since I carry it everywhere, but then I don’t have a way at work to transfer the photo from the camera to a computer since I quit carrying my laptop with me to work (and my laptop has a built-in card reader). And I couldn’t do it at home either, because I couldn’t find my laptop’s power supply. So I took a photo with my phone’s built-in camera and sent it to my Gmail account, but that came out like utter shite, and I really hope I don’t really look like that, and even if I did, I wouldn’t be posting that picture. So you’re just going to have to wait, I guess. :) Good story, huh?

I also shaved off my beard to complete the look. So I went from being a long-haired guy with a full beard on Sunday to a short-hair, clean shaven guy on Monday. The result? We had a new guy who started in my department yesterday, and when people saw me wandering the building, they thought I was him. Also, my boss brought people around my cubicle just to look at me - you know, like they do to animals in the zoo. ;) In fact, the only person who doesn’t seem to be interested in my body hair one way or another is Smaug, and frankly, I don’t think he cares who comes through the front door of my house at night so long as they give him food and provide body heat.

Anyway, I have several other things I want to talk about, but I don’t want to shove them all in one post, so I think I’ll cut this one short and plan to post again in the very near future. Maybe even later today. Stranger things have happened, if not recently.