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Four things, one of which is a hair update

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First, a hair update:

Remember when I said the cut was good enough? I lied. It's horrible. Horrible and brutal, and it's going to take a long time to grow out enough to be okay. It will take longer to grow out enough for me to go looking for another stylist who can handle a razor. I've already gotten some recommendations, though.

Second, an interlude of dog blogging:

Today Mister Bones and I went on an expedition to find balls for his found ball collection. We only found one - a Darth Vader Basketball. He played with it in the front yard - running with his back legs and controlling the ball with his front legs and mouth. I had to go retrieve it from the street, the neighbours yard, the street again, and the other neighbours yard. Finally he punctured it! And then his mouth got stuck, because he'd inadvertently created a vacuum with his teeth. But my dad and I pulled it off and deflated some of the air so it wouldn't happen again. After that he took a break and had some ice water before going back to closely supervising my dad as he washed the car. Mister Bones helps my dad wash the car by sitting in the backseat after the backseat has been vacuumed.
Also, Mister Bones recently got a doggy pool, but more about that later.

Third, there also may be more about this later:

By 'this', I mean something very loosely (barely) connected with the video.

Fourth, dispatches from church:

We're going trilingual soon, which is cool. The third language will be vietnamese. Also, the vietnamese community in my parish recently ordered a statue from Italy and placed it in the chapel where the tabernacle is located. There are two candle boxes on either side, which means that now we are finally a real Catholic Church, because we weren't before. The end.

Can't sleep

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The local cops aren't down with the whole keeping within a small area while investigating thing. So, they're looking into something a block or two over, and this apparently requires flashing lights in front of my house. And also a circling, flashing, helicopter. The helicopter is the reason I'm not drifting peacefully off to sleep right now - the circular pattern of the noise level is driving me sort of nuts.

I've decided taking math might be more fun than taking random unconnected electives to meet my course minimum. In view of that, I started reviewing single variable calculus today. I know it and I'm good at it, but I haven't done any real math for about a year and a half, so I am definitely rusty. Picking it back up with multivariable calculus in the fall would be something fun to look forward to, so hopefully I will be able to stick with the schedule I've set for myself.

Today Mister Bones and I went on an expedition to find abandoned red cricket balls. Unfortunately, the expedition was resoundingly unsuccessful. I later found out that our lack of success was probably because I was mistaken about when the cricket league meets. They play Sunday mornings, not Saturday mornings. We'll try again tomorrow.

Okay, now there are multiple sirens and at least one car alarm going off. This is getting irritating. It is especially irritating in light of the fact that if I want breakfast tomorrow, I have to be up for seven fifteen mass. Seven fifteen in the morning, not at night. I have four hours, and it looks like I probably won't sleep until after mass and after breakfast at whatever Taqueria we're going to.
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