Sunday, November 8, 2020

Movember '20

 Lots of good mustaches out there. To name a few:




Bonus (a Daniel playing a Daniel with a mustache!):

They made it look so easy, I thought I could grow one too! But so far mine's more like

I've got a couple more bristles in my cookie duster, but you can see Spike's! Here's mine:
I'd heard about Movember before and took a look at it for the first time this year. Was just going to donate this time and grow a mustache in solidarity -- I joked at the office that I'd never grown a mustache by itself before, and this was the time to experiment because if it didn't look good on me I could always cover it with a mask! -- but I accidentally made an account somehow.

Then today I heard the news about Alex Trebek. When I was younger, probably about 10 or so, we had an old TV in the attic and I asked if I could have it. One of the channels that it picked up best was Channel 13, which played Jeopardy, Fridays at 6pm if I remember correctly. Used to play the computer game a fair bit too:

Haven't really decided what kind of mustache to grow yet. Trimmed it yesterday according to Civil Air Patrol guidelines ("not extend downward beyond the lip line of the upper lip or extend sideways beyond a vertical line drawn upward from both corners of the mouth"), but that looked too short. Guess I could try to grow one like Alex's. (Emphasis definitely on try.)