"Afters"

Ok, so it took a bit longer to get an after shot. Here's a pic of me with my 11mo old son taken after the haircut.  We were trying to get a picture of him looking up at the ceiling because the reflections from the light were moving around and he was laughing at them but every time we took a picture he looked down at the camera.  Kind of an awkward looking pose but it's not easy hanging on to a wiggly 10kilo bundle with just one arm. ^_^

"Before"

So Brian demanded some before and after shots of the haircut.  Before pics are hard to come by as I was avoiding the camera as much as possible the last few months.  The only shot I can find is from Christmas and my hair grew quite a bit since then.

In this shot my hair comes down to about my eyes, the day I had it cut it was down to my mouth.

I'll try to get an "afters" shot tomorrow.

Finally

Typically I get my hair cut every 4-5 weeks but I've gone the last 6 months without getting it cut.  Today I finally got a haircut.  She cut off about 4 inches to start with before doing the small cuts for the style I wanted.  Having long hair is nice for a while, but I just couldn't stand having it always fall in my face every time I looked down and feeling like a walking mop.

Time

Time is a funny thing, too often we don't have enough of it, it goes by too fast and yet at other times it just doesn't go fast enough.  In my case lately I haven't had enough.  Today marks the first real day off that I've had in about 3 weeks.  I've been working 12+ hour days as well as moving into a new apartment and all that goes with that.

There is so much more we would all do with more time.  I for one would spend more time with family, work more on my side projects that will hopefully one day allow me to be self employed and update this blog more often.  Sorry about not updating more often, I also just noticed that Brian of Panda Pirate Brian_日本で (^_-) linked me in the friends/links area of his blog so I apologize to those of you that came here only to find a somewhat stagnant blog, I promise I'll try to do better.  Big thanks for the link Brian! ^_^  You have no idea how jealous I am of some of the posts you put up, like that visit to UpGarage for example.

The new place is great, has lots of space and best of all I have my own room.  That might seem a bit strange, but I work at home so having my own office is a huge necessity that was seriously lacking in the old apartment.  For the curious, the new place has 3 bedrooms (4 if you count my office), 2 bathrooms and a total of 115 square meters of space.  It is also on the top floor and has great views.  I'll get some pics posted soon when everything isn't dead and white outside.

Speaking of the side projects, one of them is finally about to start moving into the production phase.  I've recently ordered the materials I need to start making Carbon Fiber parts.  I'm going to start off small and work with some parts for radio control cars and see how it goes.  The parts are small enough so that they don't require huge amounts of raw materials which will keep my costs down while I'm learning the hands-on skills.  I've already studied lots of resources on the techniques and methods I just need to learn the physical skills of putting those theories into practice.  Hopefully it will take off and I'll be able to make something much larger out of it.  I have lots of ideas, it just depends on how much time I will have to dedicate to it.