WhiteOwl

Best driver's license picture ever. Still chopped and bearded. Still dedicated.

... I find myself resisting the maddening urge to shave quite often. It seems like no matter how happy I am, I always spot little imperfections. Heh, like anybody could ever have a "perfect" whatever anyway... I am very pleased, when looking this evening and trimming, how things are turning out. I'm starting to look real "old timey"!

Another day at work ...

I'm very pleased with how things are going this time around.

My 'stache is finally joining up on the left-hand side. That's what happens to those of us who don't have decent connectors yet ... you have to improvise.

Here we are ... Another day at work.

... here's a few more

Here's a nice shot of the new chops. They've come out much better this time, due mostly to my beard's increasing density. Yeah sure, I still look like a redneck, but that's okay, doesn't bother me as much.

Yep, I went back to the chops. I don't know what it is about them, but I started to miss them. I don't look so bad like this.

I figure, Matt looks good like this, Boofer looks good like this, Everlast does too, why not give it a try?

On to the next style ... If you look real, real close, you can see the faint traces of peach fuzz forming a chinstrap.

Here is a better pic.

I'm going to let it turn into a walrus mustache and see where that goes. I still don't have enough stubble on the sides of my chin for an extended Fu-Manchu, yet ...

I decided it might be fun to try out the handlebar mustache. My goals have changed some-what. Basically, the plan is to try out pretty-much every style that I'm capable of growing, to see what fits me the best. So, here's the handlebars ...

You can have my beard, when you shave it off my cold, dead face!

Nice day today, warm but just a bit windy.

This is Hubert. No, I didn't catch him, but he's cool, and he helps add to my new "rugged" image. And no, I didn't trim, the light was just shining funny on my face.

... Mossy Oak looks pretty darn good with a beard!

Looks like somebody's got a case of the 'Mondays' ...

... went down to the barber shop yesterday, got the neck line cleaned up and a new crop top.

I'm so thankful for Bose noise-canceling headphones and Dimmu Borgir ... it gets way too loud in here.

Our offices have been moved to a temporary location while the heating and air conditioning in our building is being worked on. That's the back of my co-worker Eric's head you see behind me. As you can tell, I can barely contain my enthusiasm for this move.

Said it's a dirty job but someone's gotta' do it...

I'm having a really FUCKED UP day @ work right now.

... thought it'd be nice to take a photo outside in the sun. Notice how I'm "immune" to the ravages of near-freezing temperatures, this isn't an accident. Beards keep your face warm in the Winter.

Here's some that i took today, the neckline, the 'good side', the room for improvement ... enjoy!

Yeah ... I know ... I'm wearing the same sweater two days in a row. But hey, at least I changed my trousers and underpants ;)

... on the way to work.

I'm a happy guy this morning. Why? Because my beard is back of course!

Feeling happier by the day.

I'm looking and feeling much better now!

My beard is back! In another week or two it will have filled out pretty-much to where it was before I accidentally butchered it.

I'm starting to feel like my old self again.

Oh sure. Everybody's in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a Great White Shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far.

Slowly surely, we're coming back. Today my face feels like suede instead of sandpaper. My thin patch on the left is filling in as well, I discovered several newly mature hairs sprouting up there. I also discovered that my hairline is receding, which most men would believe to be a major bummer but not me, as, DHT causes thinning head hair, but ironically it also promotes thicker beard growth. SWEET!!!

I decided for the sake of myself, as well as my girlfriend, who has to occasionally be seen in public with me, to shave off the mutton chops and start over. Shown is all that's left of my lovely, lovely beard ... With one poor decision and several strokes with a razor my first beard was reduced to a "jazz dot". What a bummer man, what a bummer. Let this be a lesson to you guys, there's a very, very good reason why mutton chops went out of style! I shaved down with a beard trimmer, that way I'd not be starting over from scratch. I'll be resuming my plan to grow a nice, full short boxed beard only this time, the only trimming I'll be doing is on the neck line. I will say this, I definitely like my face a lot better with a beard than without one. I'm not happy with the way I look right now at all, but I'm resting assured knowing that I'll start looking better in a week or so. My face looks like a frozen Thanksgiving turkey right now, ACK!!! I'll keep posting pictures for as long as you guys are. Notice the Kenny on the left, he is handsome, virile and confident. Then notice the Kenny on the right, he's sad, emasculated, depressed.

... I'm liking this style less and less every day. I think I might have made a bit of a mistake with this one.

Ambrose Burnside, Lemmy Kilmister and countless others; and now ... Me!

I've got fops and dandy-boys in the crosshairs.

I got a haircut. I also trimmed up a nice neck line as well, not too shabby for a first attempt. Apparently I don't look homeless anymore.

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end!

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen

My co-workers all agree, I look like Grounds Keeper Willie from the Simpsons.

... still just a bit patchy on the left-hand side, but it's filling in, you probably won't even be able to tell in another week or so. So far as growing is concerned, I've been taking my vitamins, shampooing it every other day and using conditioner every day. Plus, I've been drinking plenty of water, washing my face with a nice, mild hypo-allergenic soap every morning, and in the evening I've been massaging jojoba oil into my cheeks and chin, to keep the itch away.

My special lady HATES my beard.

Feeling good!

I'm lucky my employer and the client don't have issues with beards.

Here's a few from home, watching Law & Order and drinking beer.

I've grown away my beardless boy face!

I can't believe it's grown out this much already. It's been 19 days and the hair is almost a half inch long.

Here we are, 18 days into it!

On my way into work ... running late.

Coming along well.

So far the feed-back has been fairly positive :) Except from Erin, she visited Sweetbeard, took one look at my pictures and said "Eeeeeewwwww GROSS!!!!" but hey, at least she's honest ;)

Here's me, my beard, and Remington the pitbull.

... I do not look like a hobo!

My face is starting to itch real, real bad.

I'll be getting complaints from the little lady that I'm "prickly" before too much longer.

... Here's another shot of the progress so far.

I can't really tell yet how this might turn out, I have some patchy spots near my mouth. Hopefully they'll fill in, but if they don't, I recon I have enough on the sides for a sweet pair of mutton chops. Mutton chops might go better with my sweet pompadour hairdo than a full beard anyway. Maybe.

... the saplings seem to be coming in well so far.

... After 2 days of not shaving, ready to go.

I'm shaved down, baby-faced and itchin' to get this thing started!!!!