watching expired appliances align

getting serious with the sideburns

so i'm working on these fancy new sideburns. it's now all about the angles. after years of shaving straight across (often parallel with my mouth), i'm shaving my facial hair along a slope - and maybe even a curve. but there's no easy way to get both sideburns exactly the same. i must lack the coordination. or the patience. or the geometric know-how.

with sideburns, it's key to have the left one be the mirror image of the right one. while traveling on the subway this weekend i got to thinking - it's high time i get some sort of plastic device to use as a sideburn template! something that's the right width and follows the right angles. i can just hold it up to my sideburns and shave around it! and then it hit me...tangoes! those little plastic puzzle pieces. surely one of them would be perfect to use as a sideburn template...maybe not the whole sideburn, but enough of it to get the angles to match.

the next time i visit my parents, i think it will be time to retrieve that box of puzzle pieces and finally put them to some good. as a pre-teen i was monumentally frustrated by tangoes. my brain just didn't think in those logical steps. and i had no interest in creating an image of an angular duck! or ship! or frog. and i'm well past the point in my life where i'm taking standardized tests. so tangoes can only be useful for one thing - creating perfect sideburns. if i can just figure out how to attach a little knob like handle (so the template doesn't slip from hand into the semi-full sink), i'll be all set.