How much would you pay for a haircut?

During lunch today, I supposed that I would get my haircut.

It's been a solid two months - hard to believe that it's been that long since I left my old job - and as some of you may recall, the last go was when I was posing as a male model for £5 and she proceeded to give me a Corps cut.

So I walked through the shopping areas around where I work. The first barber shop I walked past looked pretty swanky. With a sinking suspicion, I walked in and grabbed a business card and quickly walked out, not quite quick enough to avoid contact with one of the stylists.

As I feared, I glanced at the card:
£28 Hair cut
£8 Additional Styling
£12 Light Head Massage

I didn't read any further.

The second, and last option (listed under "Services" on the centre map), was even more ritzy.

I'll let you do the conversions - try www.oanda.com.

As for me, I decided the bird in the hand was worth my hair looking like a bush.

It's not THAT cold...

Usually around lunch time I click into my personalized Google homepage which automatically pulls all sorts of information from various webpages into one spot. This eliminates the temptation to spend an hour a day goofing off on the web, since in 5 minutes I can check to see who's posted on their blogs (rarely this one) and various other tidbits.

Being a good Texan (who must talk about the weather), a good Brit (who must complain about the weather), doing work related to the insurance industry (who must assess the risks of the weather) and SIL to a cotton farmer (who must pray for the right weather), I subscribe to a weather update.

And would you believe that it's usually warmer in London than in either the PK area or in West Texas? Yep, day after day I check and find this to be true. Just goes to show that perceptions can be wrong.



But when I got my jacket out one day this week, I had to begin being honest with myself. It gets cold over here.

It's only warmer because at noon, we're experiencing our high and you guys back home are experiencing your low for the day.

Even that small bit of mental consolidation will probably go away before too long... just means that Bree gets good use out of the Christmas present I gave her last year.

By following someone back to work after lunch, I did find out that there is a secret underground passageway into the office from the tube. Don't tell. Which means only about the 5-6 minutes from my house to the bus stop or train station is in the elements... plus waiting time at the platform.