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"

Is that a toupee??

While visiting London I was riding on  the lower level of a doubledecker bus.  A bunch of about 8 teens came down the little stairway from the upper deck. As soon as the first one saw me he turned and said something to the others.  They all came and stood just over me, and the first one said, "IS THAT A TOUPEE"?  I ignored him.  He asked it again, louder.  People were looking.  I pretended not to notice (here the hearing aids come in handy), hoping no one would know it was me. He and some of the others kept asking, "IS THAT A TOUPEE"?  Finally I got off the bus!

Fine Art

One day in the early '90s, I worked late.  About 8 PM I left the office and went nearby to a Rustler Steak House and had the salad bar for dinner.  I still had my tie on.  As I was eating I noticed a table with 3 young guys eating and laughing a lot.  After while they got up and left, and as they passed by my table, one of them dropped a paper napkin on my table.  I thought that was really rude.  They went on out.  Then I noticed something written on the napkin. I picked it up.  On the small folded part was written "MR. NECKTIE", with a drawing of a smiley face and a tie.  Well, I thought, thats kind of cute.  Then I opened up the napkin,and inside was this elaborate drawing of big curly hair and the words, "THE WIG KING".  I looked outside, and the 3 guys were standing out there watching me, very amused.