#75. grow hair for 6 weeks

What an absolute travesty. I only made it to five weeks, but I wasn't going to go any further with this one.

I started to noticeably bald when I was about 21 or so. That was premature, but I went with it for a while. I kept my hair short at that point anyhow and that masked it for some time. Eventually even that didn't do enough and I figured I might as well take it all the way down and shave it off.

Two points of note, here. First, I never had good hair. I never knew how to do cool things with it. Or even uncool things, really. Second, I started shaving it when I moved to a new city where I didn't speak the common language and didn't want to find a new cheap place that also spoke English. That new city also meant I couldn't afford anything anyhow, other than a pair of clippers.

So I shaved it off. I would've been a few months short of 23. It was great. For the first time in my life I had a semi-consistent "look". I did it with the expectation that by the time I was in my late 20s I would be old enough and bald enough to keep it short and just be a balding guy. No big deal, no shame in that.

Now here I am in my late 20s and want to give the late 20s/early 30s comfortable-enough-with-himself to be obviously balding a shot. Well, I'm old enough but not bald enough. It was patchy. It was uneven. It felt unclean. I looked like I had mange.

So I shaved it off (again). Maybe when I'm looking at 35.

#66. become organ donor

Huh. That was easy. One quick download, print it out, trim it to size and that's all there is to it in my jurisdiction, apparently. I'm supposed to tell people about this, which I think I have, but I'll re-tell them, I suppose.

Organ donation. Why not? Assuming they don't take them from you while you're still using them, what's the difference? One of my other items on the list is to make a will, and the hardest thing to do for that, if I have to spell it out, will be to outline what should be done with me.

But that's another story. Organ donation is a big yes, and I think it should be the default option, and have people opt out of it rather than opt in. Or maybe donors could get a tax break or something. That's a bit macabre and could be interpreted as being paid for organs, but I don't see it like that. I think by doing this I'm merely being a good citizen, and human.