I'm overweight, and I hate shaving. What do those two things have to do with each other? I made the decision in December to shave off my goatee and to keep it off until I lost the weight. I figured that the daily shaving routine would remind me to watch what I eat. That would have worked, except that my back suffered a herniated disk in late December, and I've been completely inactive until the past week. But I'm still clean-shaven. But no more... In working to get this blog ready for prime-time, I did a computerized caricature of myself. Here it is...  Which scared the crap out of me. So I added my usual goatee back on (because I can do that artistically...)  And that decision was made for me. The shaving is over. | 
