Oh -- camping. MAYBE next week!!!! The great news is that I can now camp mid-week, and even on weekends I can find camping spots about 2-3 weeks out, something that has not been possible for the past few years. I think the camping bubble may have burst.
As for Kevin's comment (did you kill another battery, sir?
), here's a bigger look at the back story behind it.
The name and icon all happened about the time I joined this forum back in 2011 when we bought our first campinn.
Sweeney was a nickname given to me at work. I used to work as an IT drone, doing software integration for Big Pharma. A co-worker, finding out that I was working on getting a license as a barber, gave me the nickname "Sweeney."
The Dilbert icon came from my badge photo and the infamous comic strip, which is frighteningly accurate to corporate life. While in school, I got a haircut at the school. I was the only white guy there, and we had very few white customers. So, the instructor wanted to use me as an example to talk about "white" hair. I innocently assumed he knew what he was doing. About 30 seconds into the cut, he started sweating profusely. He turned me to the mirror and said "What do you think? My response was "I've never worn it like that before..." doing my best to be polite.
The haircut wasn't my style, and technically, it wasn't the best, but the resemblance to Dilbert was uncanny. So, I decided to lean into it, and laugh rather than shave it off or get upset. Its just hair. The image below was taken 3 days later, and became my badge photo for several years.
Today, I'm gone from the corporate gig, and work in a barbershop.
So, there you go.
Next trip, we'll see how next Wednesday and Thursday look. The good/bad is that my weekends are now on Wednesday and Thursday...
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I was a little surprised at how long it took to come out. Its hard to believe it has been over a year since that was shot. But with the quality of Drew's editing its easy to see why. He is really gifted.
