Somewhat tangential update: beards at two months

Hey! Just thought I'd check in with the latest photograph of our ongoing facial hair fracas. Roughly two months in, here's how it stands:



Howzaboutit? (Note my especially spiffy Elvis shirt...my wife hates it when I wear that in public...)

Beard update

Oh yeah, and here's the 10-day beard update, yours truly on the left again...in fact, we're standing in the same order as before:


How ' bout that?

And yes, I did trim off the cheeks.

On a slight tangent...

...The 2006 UNCA Department of Mathematics Beard-Growing Contest began last night; a picture of the contestants (your humble narrator at the far left) is shown below. This is the first time I've been without facial hair for about five years, so it feels veeeeery strange...