Laura, awesome hair!

Def. don't wash it as much, and my cheap solution to keep my hair bright is to buy a container of Manic Panic or some other semiperm (Raw, Hot Topic, Splat!) and put some in with my conditioner. That re-coats the hair with color every time I use it.

I had an Amiga! In, um, 1984. Yes. And we were on CompuServe, but it was hella expensive and I lived in fear of my father explodiating.

Best class I ever took in HS, typing.

Indeed. I only took it to avoid study hall, and I've certainly used it more than anything else I learned in high school. I learned on a Royal Standard, and I wrote my way through four years on my college paper and my first year at the newspaper on Royal Standards. Boy, did I have finger muscles that I don't have now. Then we moved to the excitement of the Selectric I using a machine-readable font that was scanned into the typesetting equipment.

I got my first computer in the late '70s, but I didn't get online until the '90s.

I used a sliderule in high school. Also, the snow was really deep and there were wolves.

I spent the last two hours setting up my neighbor's modem, internet connection and e-mail. Surely I've garnered some major karma points.

my cheap solution to keep my hair bright is to buy a container of Manic Panic or some other semiperm (Raw, Hot Topic, Splat!) and put some in with my conditioner.

I have some purple Special Effects in my conditioner right now (to keep my blonde from going brassy) AIFG!

Laura, shampoo as rarely as possible, too. And use cool water.

Yeah, I spent a stupid amount of college in a computer lab at nothing-a.m. in command line chat with friends who were, like, three machines away. Because if we actually got up to talk to each other out loud it'd be like acknowledging the fact that we weren't really doing work at all.

My twin!

My typing teacher in high school was also my sister's typing teacher when she was in high school.

She's 21 years older than I am.

She claimed he was old when he was her teacher.

Prodigy, CompuServe. Wow, taking me back.

Def. don't wash it as much, and my cheap solution to keep my hair bright is to buy a container of Manic Panic or some other semiperm

Nice in theory, but I have to wash it at least once a day. Sometimes more, and then there is the swimming. It is hot here and my head sweats! I may just cut out the shampoo as water is probably enough to make me feel refreshed.

I'll try the manic panic and bumble suggestions. I've had it red a lot in the past, although much lighter.

They had "Internet" at my HS. It was actually all BBS stuff and we had to connect with one of those acoustically coupled modems and if the guy at the next computer was too hyperactive you'd lose connection as the handset jiggled out of the holders.

My typing teacher in high school was also my sister's typing teacher when she was in high school.

My mom, aunts, grandmother, and great aunts all went my high school (and then my cousins followed me). I had a lot of the same teachers my two youngest aunts (9 and 11 years older than me) had and several that my mom had. I had one teacher, Mrs. Mullins my speach teacher, that my grandmother and great-aunts had.

I would answer to any number of names. (I was called 'Beth' most often because that's my youngest aunt who I resemble quite a bit.)

Nice in theory, but I have to wash it at least once a day. Sometimes more, and then there is the swimming. It is hot here and my head sweats! I may just cut out the shampoo as water is probably enough to make me feel refreshed.

A water-only wash might take a week or two for you scalp to adjust, but it works pretty well. I do water-only about half the time now.

(((vw))) You're doing the right thing; best of luck today.

Laura, I'm going to have to steal some time on my stepdad's computer later to see your picture, but I'm sure you look fabulous.

juliana, the conditioner idea is a great one.

I just got an e-mail from the local credit union saying they're running bus tours of the foreclosed homes in the area. Weird but tempting.