In the last 2 months or so, I have had an exponential increase in the amount of hair that is falling off my head. For about 6 years I kept my head shaved and it was nice and comfortable. Then my hair started to thin a little bit. So I had a conversation with my hair that went something like this:
Me: “Hey, hair, yeah, where are you going?”
Hair: “Well, if you’re just going to keep cutting me all off, I don’t see any reason to hang around.”
Me: “Wait, wait.. let’s talk about this for a minute. I don’t want you to leave.”
Hair: “What are you going to do? I feel unloved. Unwelcome here.”
Me: “Let’s reach a compromise. How about if I let you grow for awhile, would you feel better?”
Hair: “Hmmmm… I guess we can try that out, but no promises.”
So there we were. I felt as though we had reached some sort of agreement. I would let the hair grow for awhile, and hair would stick around and feel welcome and loved again. And I have had less stress in my life over the last few years. Managed code makes life so neat, simple and carefree that I was essentially worry free. I was in programming bliss. Life was good. I still had hair.
So then about 3 weeks ago or so I was washing my hair (yes, I wash my hair more often than that) and looked at my hands. My hands looked like I had just strangled a wet rat. And now they look like that everytime I wash my hair. So I’m in a position that I must take evasive action. Rogaine? Propecia? Voodoo? What’s a poor balding guy to do? My hair let me down. It led me to believe that if I let it grow it would be happy and stick around. What a cruel joke that turned out to be. At this rate, I’ll be completely bald in about 12 weeks. And my hair is laughing all the way down the drain (causing the water to drain slower and slower on a daily basis). Why can’t I lose facial hair instead? That would be ideal.
So now I’m going to change shampoos. Change conditioners. Probably research into rogaine. Do some research and find out exactly what I need to do to slow the process. Oh, and by the way, my father is not bald. My mother’s dad never went bald and my father’s dad is not bald.
In the meantime, I’m going to blame BCLs and the delay of VS2K5. The BCLs are just so freaking huge and maybe trying to learn them all is a good excuse for my hair falling out. Waiting on VS2K5 sounds like another good excuse. Maybe once it arrives my hair will quit falling out, but I may be bald by then.