fyi

My hairs are approximately 1.5 inches long at the present time.

(A couple people've asked.)

I really do need to read more Iain Banks, I know

"it felt like faith, like revelation: that things went on, that life ground on regardless,
and mindless, and produced pain and pleasure and hope and fear and joy and despair,
and you dodged some of it and you sought some of it and sometimes you were lucky
and sometimes you weren’t, and sometimes you could plan your way ahead and that
would be the right thing to have done, but other times all you could do was forget about
plans and just be ready to react, and sometimes the obvious was true and sometimes it
wasn’t, and sometimes experience helped but not always, and it was all luck, fate, in the
end; you lived, and you waited to see what happened, and you would rarely ever be sure
that what you had done was really the right thing or the wrong thing, because things can
always be better, and things can always be worse."
- Iain Banks, from Espedor Street, as quoted by Mike Higton