Old-fashioned barber shop

I recently rediscovered the joys of the barber shop. When I was a kid I couldn't wait to get haircuts, but as I grew older they began to instill horror in me. By the time I was in high school they were my enemy ranking next to dentist appointments.

Fast forward to today. I'm now 35 and I view haircuts as a favor to myself. I get it cut short and I always feel a little spoiled once it's done. My ego thanks me every time.

Part of the transition from loathing to love is thanks to a small barber shop that I have been frequenting for about a year. It is the kind of family shop that has become rare these days. There is a couple and the wife's father all cutting hair together. One of my favorite parts is that they still do the razor finish. Nothing can compare to the feeling of a straight razor on your skin.

These are the thoughts that are spilling through my head as I is in the barber shop waiting for a chair to open on a Friday evening. It's been an hour since I got here and I'm sure to be up soon!

Training styles

I'm sitting in a software training session and I keep thinking that there has to be a better way. Management has purchased a new piece of reporting software do now all of the analysts are attending a workshop for the next two days. Because none of us have been given access yet, today will mainly be a meet and greet and hopefully tomorrow we can run some queries on live data.

If the past proves to be an indicator for the future we will finish this program and get access at some future date, well past our memory of what we learned today. My preference would be to get the software first, even in demo mode so that I can become familiar with it, then after a few weeks receive training. Doing this would make training workshops shorter and the questions would be better.

Hopefully this time will be different.