happy new year!

it's frobuary 1, YOMHC 0xb.

waaaay back at haircut #1, i got some advice from multiple independant chinese coworkers: "don't get a haircut at an asian place, they don't know how to cut white people hair". so i ended up with a $55 haircut delivered by a non-asian. it was good. it was very good. so was the followup $55 non-asian haircut. and then i decided i didn't want to pay the better part of a benjamin for a bit of clippers and some hair goo so i started going to "great clips" and "oldtime barbers" and stuff. and my happiness with my haircuts declined steadily.

so today i tossed the advice and went to an asian (chinese? possibly.) barber shop. they didn't understand any better than anyone else the usual request to "keep it longish on top". nor did they understand my request for a cut that looks good without gel. but despite these failures of communication (which, of course, were mostly my fault), I ended up with a much better haircut than the crap i'd been getting at "great clips". it actually works sans hair goop, too, which, despite being a great departure from my YOMHC 1 trajectory, is my current preference.

it cost 5 bucks more than great clips and another fiver for a shampoo. at half the price of an excellent cut, it was a decent enough deal that i'll be going back there for the next one.