I finally took the plunge. I bought a beard-trimmer. I came to the point of needing to either shave off my facial hair, or begin trying to keep it orderly. I figure that I can always shave it later, but if it goes now who knows if I'll ever let it grow back?
Surprised to hear that I had a beard to shave? It may not be much to see. You can see a picture of it here.
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In the photo, by the way, James looks a lot like my younger brother (as he looked 35 years ago, that is!). Nice group of guys.
Yeah, I use a beard trimmer. It's got a sort-of vacuum that sort-of sucks in the trimmings, which you then have to empty out of a reservoir in the body of the device, with difficulty. If you let your beard get really out of control, you can use the depth attachment. Mine has six settings, 1 to 6, and I usually go for 3. But mostly I don't use the beard trimmer that way. I mainly use it to trim my moustache so it doesn't shag over my lips (my trimmer has a swiveling cutter head, wide and narrow; the narrow is used to trim the edges of the mustache or beard at the lips). I also use the trimmer to cut back the undergrowth under my chin down to my Adam's apple. That I do about every three or four days, especially before going to church or out on a street mission. I generally keep my beard and sideburns trimmed by eyeballing it with the uncovered trimmer head. Good luck! (Don't forget, "wearing" a beard was a sign of the "philosopher" in Greco-Roman times. I still think it is, even today, in some circles.)
P.S.: Hey, you're not THAT ugly!
These are the guys I spend the most time with. Play games and talk, occasionally share the deeper things going on in our lives. There's something special about having committed friends which not everyone gets, and I'm lucky to have them. That I'm the only one in the group who would confess that Jesus is Lord weighs on me.
I started on 6 of 9 for the shaver settings, but I heard it's good to start long and get shorter slowly so you can see how it looks. No reservoir on mine, I'm afraid. I thought it might not trim that much - but my sink is suddenly quite hairy.
Ugly? I generally don't feel it, honestly. Except when I'm dealing with rejection issues with women, and alas I can't take your word for it there. Most of the time, I'm just Dave.
Having never seen the show, and having only your picture to go by, I'll have to take your word [substituting "look" for the first "like"] for it. We both have big foreheads and brown hair, though.
And I have been known to have poofy hair, to the point where I was often called Kevin when a freshman in high school due to my resemblance of Fred Savage in The Wonder Years.
When I left the comment, "You're not THAT ugly," I was jokingly referring to your blog name "The Ugly Evangelical." I don't get what you mean by "ugly evangelical."
From the photo with your friends, I would say your a decent looking chap. If I were to show you a picture of myself and my friends at about your age, you wouldn't believe your eyes… what a roomful of misfits! We looked like something between a family photo of the Addams Family and a Baptist youth group! (Mainly 'cause some of my friends WERE Baptists!) This, of course, was in the early 1970's, at college.
Never can tell. What exactly I mean by the blog title is sometimes in doubt. Originally, and primarilly, it is a reference to me falling generally within the group of believers known as "Evangelicals" (to the extent that the word retains much meaning). But not completely, and I have my questions, concerns, and doubts. So I'm an Evangelical (I think), but I'm an Ugly Evangelical. I thought it was rather clever. If I were disciplined enough to write a book, that'd probably be the title.
I've also got insecurity issues concerning being single despite rather strongly wanting to find a wife for some time. After some recent discouraging events, I applied the title in that way in a post within the last couple months.
I figure, you could be joking, you could be referencing a previous post, or both.
But my gut reaction was a wry laugh.
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