from shaggy to shorn

The walk has come at an awkward time for when I normally get a haircut.  I generally visit the barber about once every six weeks.  By that point, the close-shaven hair above my ears has grown long enough to tickle my earlobes, and that's when I know it's time to get shorn.  This time around, I decided to let my hair go two extra weeks so I could get my haircut right before departure (I leave for Incheon today, i.e., Sunday afternoon).  I told the barber to cut it "very short," thinking he might do a soldier-style buzz cut, but I think the hair is still a bit too long.  No matter; it'll do.  The hair will be under a bandanna the whole time, anyway, so I'm not worried about the aesthetics of the situation.

And here's the before/after shot:

Let's see whether the "upload video" function works. If it does, I may have something more to offer you, media-wise, this time around. 

UPDATE:  well, holy frijole—it works!  And it's not too hard to do, either, although a six-second video takes nearly a minute to upload from my phone to the blog—and that's with a decent Wi-Fi connection (for the phone, I mean; my laptop is physically connected to the internet).  I shudder to think of how long a minute-long video might take to upload.  Yikes.  Anyway, this is like a new superpower for me, and while I'm still not okay with most of the "new Blogger" interface, functionality like this goes a long way to making me hate the new Blogger less.  There's also a YouTube option:  I can upload videos to YouTube from my phone, then (I think) embed those videos in a blog post.  For now, I don't plan to do any YouTube-embedding, but since I now know I can upload my own recorded videos directly from my phone, I might provide you all with occasional videos—all less than a minute long—that offer some sort of Insight or Goofy Thought of the Day.  We'll see how that works.  I expect a rough start, but I also expect things to smooth out as I tentatively begin my vlogging career.