There are several things I love about my typical go-to barber.

I go to a couple different people for my haircuts, but there’s a favorite.

And there are several things I like about him.

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Number one, he’s close.

It’s like a seven minute drive, tops.

Number two, he’s got a very cool place.

His barber shop is adorned with hand-painted is the wrong term.

Hand-markered, hand-permanent-markered artwork all over the walls.

Just this endless, like, what’s the word?

Stream of consciousness artwork, basically.

Doodles and messages and stuff, but it’s very cool.

And three is, he himself is a very nice guy.

And very frequently when I go, we always chat, and very frequently when I go, he will do a thing for me without charging me.

It’s a thing that he charges $10 for.

Now to be clear, his haircuts aren’t cheap.

They’re not exorbitant, but they’re not cheap either.

They’re like 40 bucks.

And for 10 more dollars, you can have him do an ear and nose wax, which I never do.

Well, which I never ask to do.

But he takes these lollipop sticks and puts them in hot wax, and then he shoves one in each nostril and one in each ear.

And one time he did it, and he said, hey, I’m just gonna give this to you on the house so you can see what it’s like.

And then, of course, there’s the yanking it out part, which is miserable.

The nose isn’t horrible.

The ears are horrible, which he always says.

But I keep going, and he keeps doing it.

He goes, hey, I’m just gonna give this to you on the house this time.

And today, he did it again when I went in for a haircut.

He yanks the bee-waxed hair out of my ears and nostrils.

And he’s like, you know, you’re probably wondering why I comp you on those.

Number one is, you know, you’re a nice guy.

I like you.

Number two is, you come in here a lot, and I appreciate that loyalty.

Which isn’t even true, because I go to a couple different haircut places, but fine.

I do go in multiple times a year.

And in three, you really need it.

He was not trying to be a jerk with his comment, but it hit hard.

And I said to him, yeah, I mean, I get it.

It grows back pretty fast.

And he’s like, yeah.

And that was our conversation.

But not the greatest thing anyone has ever told me, that they complimentarily, complimentarily?

They, for free, they, at no cost to me, remove my nose and ear hair because I need my nose and ear hair removed.

Getting old is freaking fantastic.

Anyway, as you may recall, I’m going on a vacation leaving Monday.

I’ll still be around Monday for much of the day, and then heading out.

I do have some bonus episodes coming up.

Nobody sent me them yet, but several people have committed to doing so.

So I won’t have an episode every day while I’m gone, but I’ll have episodes sometimes.

And that’s better than no episodes.

Anyway, I hope you’re having a wonderful Friday, and that you have a great weekend.

Oh, tomorrow I have a band gig.

I just remembered.

Performing for like two plus hours with band.

40 songs.

That’s a long time.

Maybe three hours.

I don’t know.

Average song is what, three minutes?

40 songs.

It’s 120 minutes.

Some breaks in between.

Yeah, two and a half to three hours.

Good times.

Anyway, that’s all I got.

Happy Friday, happy weekend, and hey, stay alive out there.

Lex.