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.

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.

I seriously only wash my hair once or twice a week, and I run 4-6 times a week (and sweat a lot during said runs). Most of the time, I just rinse my hair with water. It helps a lot.

Laura, that color is fantastic on you!

I've been washing my hair about once a week for a while, and while my hair loves it my scalp does not. I'm not sure what to do about that. Part of my reason for weekly washing is that my hair takes forever to dry and having wet hair all day is a drag and blow drying s a different kind of drag, so I don't do the water wash thing, either. Ideally, I would like to lift of my hair, scrub my scalp, and put the hair back.

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!

During college, when I wasn't procrastinating at coffee shops and pubs, I was procrastinating on a terminal connected to (I believe) a Vax. I had a secret admirer who would send me anonymous mash notes from elsewhere on campus. I was pretty sure of his identity all along, but eventually he outed himself.

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 did not know you could do this. Huh. I might have to hit the beauty supply this weekend.

I'm also the older generation. My high school had one of the best computer science programs in the state, mainly because we actually had a computer science class, and some of the math classes included a week or so in programming simple math functions. In BASIC.

We got our first PC in 1992. It included a trial subscription to Prodigy.

College was definitely Vax time for me. I didn't really use it much for the internet, just computer science classes and, once I realized how much longer it made my papers compared to typing them on my ancient manual, word processing.

I bought a used Mac and a 1200 baud modem in 1991 and used some crazy patchwork of local isp and telnet to get to Usenet through UNC, as I recall.

We had computers in college but no internet. We got email my last year, I think. It was an intranet, and no one had mail access in their dorms/apartments, so you had to go to the lab to check your email. We mostly just sent emails to the person sitting next to us. Or, we would send drunk emails on the way home from the bars at the all night computer lab.

I "learned" BASIC in high school. I graduated in '85, so there was none of this PC frippery. In college we learned to program a cyber robot. Its name was Karel. The instructor always said, "Karl," which bugged, because I was a Buffista, even back then. Despite the information at that link, I don't think Karel had anything to do with Java back then. I'm pretty sure those were the days in which java was still only a schmanzy word for coffee.

I learned what BASIC I knew on an Atari 2600. My high school definitely did not have computers, though I think my middle school had TRS-80s.