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axolotl wrote:

I'm going to try to make it to Iron Fever this weekend. If you see a
somewhat overweight middle-aged guy with graying hair, glasses, and a
beard, please introduce yourselves. A better identification method will
be to look for a beautiful and charming 13-year-old and find the old guy
attached to her.

That sounds like a good identifier system.

I expect to be there too --- Saturday only -- with a Yellow
"CAMS" cap (if I can remember to keep it on indoors), a Nikon camera
hung around my neck, and a folding cart behind me with a canvas bag for
smaller goodies.

My wife may be with me, or off looking for interesting things
elsewhere in the show. If she is there, the top of her head comes up to
almost my chin, :-)

My beard is now mostly gray -- unless I spill some barbeque
sauce on it. :-)

My hair is also probably too long by others opinions.

Has anyone else noticed the unusually high proportion of hairy faced
guys in this hobby? Must be some kind of genetic predisposition.

People who don't care that much what others think of their
hobbies are also not likely to care that much about what they think
about the beards, too. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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