Going to the dentist

  There's probably no one better positioned to spot toupees than a dentist!  Also, whenever I go to the dentist, I fret about having it fall off.  After all, you're tilted almost upside down, sometimes perspiring as the malevolent dentist inflicts pain on your mouth.  I'm always very careful to put fresh new tape on before a dentist visit.  Every time the dentist turns away for a minute, I quickly press it down hard, just in case the tape is weakening.

  This isn't leading up to an embarrassing story, just reflections caused my my recent visit to the dentist.

 

Musings

I don't know if anybody reads these.. the counter keeps clicking upwards, but nobody comments.. oh well...

Nothing special.. just sitting here thinking.  I've been weeding pictures off my computer lately, to make more disk space.  Amazing how many of the pics are of ME, and my various hairpieces.  It got me to thinking about who I really am and why I obsess on my toupee so much.  I guess, looking at these pictures, its partly because there is no me without my toupee.  I may have one or two pics of me without it on, but basically, who I am is, "the guy in the bad rug".  I am never seen without it, and since, and this becomes blindingly obvious as I pore over these old photos, it is so very spottable, its hard for me to think of anything else.

I am journeying through life alone, and whether that can be blamed on 42 years of bad toupee wearing, or some other flaw, I can't say.  I can say this - if I had it to do over again, it would definitely have been done differently.

 

First journal entries are hard to find

This is annoying.  I just noticed that the earliest entries are not shown here on the main journal page.  And, they're hard to find!  Leave it to AOL to complicate things.  If you are reading this for the first time, you should start at the beginning, which is 9/12/05.  To find it, click the upper right on "view archves".  On the page that opens, click on the lower right on "first entry in this journal".  Once you get there, you'll see all the early entries listed on the right side margin

Too Much Hair!

This is my bathroom counter top! I have too much hair!

Update

  Well, I went to the hairpiece store as I said I was going to do.  I had called beforehand and was told they did have synthetic pieces in my color (#4 brown) and 20% gray.  So I went in, got in the chair, removed my toupee.  The guy went in back, rooted around, came out, and announced that they did NOT have a synthetic piece to fit me after all.  I was very disappointed.  I left.

  I decided to call the place where I had bought the two pieces I have now.  Its about a 2 1/2 hour drive.  I made an appointment for the following Wednesday, which was Feb. 8.  This is a larger place, with a much bigger stock.  The only thing I don't like about it is that all the service people are women.  I would rather have a man working on my bowling ball head, but anyway, the woman  was very nice.  Once again, off came my rug, and the call went out to the back room for 2 #4/20 (#4 shade of brown, 20% gray) pieces, soon a hand reached in through the back door and handed the woman two bags containing my two pieces.  Then she proceeded to cut them in, which takes a long time.  Hairpieces come with LOTS of hair in them so that they can be cut down to the customer's preference.  After all, you can't ADD hair, so you have to have too much to begin with.  So what I wanted was a kind of tousled look in front.  So, after about 2 hours of work, on the two pieces (I bought two because its 2 for $999, and something like $600 for one - you do the math), I left, and here i am.  I posted 6 pictures here, 3 views of each piece.  They are supposed to be identical, but of course thats not possible, so they are slightly different.

  I'm not going to say what I think of them just now.  Leave me some feedback and tell me what you think!!!

  It is always exciting to get a new hairpiece!!

Exciting

Well, this is pretty exciting. I'm going to the hairpiece store tomorrow to see about getting a new toupee.  I'll keep you posted!

Wig Alert! (and other compliments)

Wig Alert!
I was walking down this kind of funky street in the city where I live, and as I passed a group of teens (why is it always teens!), they started to yell, WIG ALERT! WIG ALERT!  I ignored them, but they followed me for about a block, saying things like "do you think its alive"?  "I wonder what he feeds it".  "Do you think its on backwards"?  "Maybe he doesnt know its up there".

Compliments
1) Passing a nicely dressed guy on the street, as we pass he  says, "Nice rug, man"

2) walking down the steps in a train station, a guy coming up the steps says, "Oh, THATS undetectable"