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I've recently been experimenting with different configurations of the beard ("not shaving"). After all, I was wrong in thinking this beard wouldn't be good, I thought I might as well experiment further for my own satisfaction. Today I couldn't take it much more and decided it wasn't any good and shaved all the rest off.

My idea that having at least some parts shaved make everything look neater and more deliberate is reinforced. I think sideburns, despite the retro-ness don't suit me whatsoever. But I feel a lot better about experimenting now, even if I look stupid for a while in the middle. After all, what does it matter?

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This weekend I have usefully:

* Tidied my flat. (Not completely, but recovering the last fall-out from party and packing. But very slightly better than before taking into account the bookshelf sorting I did pre-party.)
* Replied to a bunch of emails and written a bunch of thoughts
* Transferred contacts onto my new phone. (Seriously, someone out there is designing interfaces. They need to spend less time on making them white and more time on making them usable. It's still shiny, but so many little details seem so gratuitously useless[1].)
* Trimmed my beard[2].

[1] This is actually on outlook, with which the phone synchronises. I mean, it obviously has some idea of what a national and area code look like. So if you enter a phone number do you think it (a) leaves it alone (b) generalises it into a working international phone number (c) blindly prepends +44?

[2] In fact, wanting to see the full range, and in fear that my hair-and-beard trimmers, that never seemed much good on hair, would be equally useless here, I sheared it back to barely longer than stubble in less than a minute. It's still soft but in a different way. I think half-way is about right, but it does mean I know that I can maintain status quo with a quick shave every other day and a quick trim every other week, meaning it really is less work.