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I was driving back to my office today from a jobsite that was about 45 minutes away and noticed one of those HUGE billboards on the side of the interstate with the above picture on it.  I cannot believe that the state of Virginia is actually putting these billboards up.  Apparently it is part of a big new campaign that they are running.  Good lord, what is next?

I am Dena’s “Monday Morality Buster” this week, thanks to my little run in with the law last week!  Yeah!!!

Is it just me, or does everyone lose more hair during certain parts of the year.  There are times when I don’t ever notice losing a single hair and other times when it looks like a damn, small, furry animal crawled onto my hairbrush and died.  Lately, I have had to clean out my brush every other day.  If I run my fingers through my hair, I will have like 15-30 pieces of hair in my hand each time.  Now granted, I have VERY long hair - but damn this is a little much!

I tried looking it up online and this is all I could find:

The shed cycle in humans has not been investigated in much detail, but a few studies from the UK demonstrate the seasonal shed cycles. Although there is an increase in shedding during spring and fall, the number of hairs shed still falls within the generally recognized limits of 50 to 100 hairs a day. So in spring and fall the daily shed rate may be closer to 100 hairs a day and in summer and late winter the typical shed rate may be closer to 50 hairs a day. However, the average rate of shedding does vary from person to person. Some people can be high shedders, but also have high rates of hair growth and replacement so they have no net hair loss. To understand your own seasonal hair shedding it is better to compare the hair shed rate in spring/fall to summer/winter within yourself rather than compare it to other people.

I guess I am just a “high shedder.”  My poor poor vacuum cleaner!

First of all I want to introduce my sister to the blogging world! She asked if I could set her up with something and I was more than happy to do so. I need everyone to go over and say hello and get her really pumped up, so that she will be a consistent blogger. So go now to www.simplehippie.com and introduce yourselves. If you feel like telling her something wonderful about me…feel free to do so! Don’t forget to blogroll her!

Second, I wanted to make everyone aware of a couple useful blogging tools. What, you did not ask for my advice? Well too bad, cause you are getting it!

The first is Pingomatic. I don’t know about you guys, but when I go to my blogroll (when I actually have a minute of time to myself) I have a few that I go see religiously everyday, then I go to whoever I see has updated. A lot of people do not ping their sites when they update, so I will go a week thinking the person has not updated, then pop in and see that they have updated like four times. You can go to Pingomatic and ping your site, so that it will show up as updated on everyone’s blogroll. You can also do this through blogrolling’s site, but Pingomatic covers more ground! So please ping people, so I know your alive!

The next one is Gravatar. A lot of people use Gravatar plugins in their comments on their blogs - those are those little pictures you see associated with someone’s comment. If you do not have one listed with Gravatar’s website, then you won’t have a picture in people’s comments. So make yourself a pretty little 80 pixel x 80 pixel picture that fits your style and go to that website and register with the email address that you always comment with (cause that is how they associate the picture with you) and upload your picture. If you are not sure how to create one, send me the picture you want to use and I will help you out! **In singing voice…“Cause that’s what friends are for…”

Okay, that is all for now. I really need to get some work done now!