I am lucky in that my family either seems to get grey hair at 25 or at 65/70. SInce I am 42, I think I will have 20 more years of brown hair.

My brother started getting silver hairs in his 30s, but that was while he was setting new records for alcoholism. Before he quit drinking, his hair was straight. After he quit, his hair started getting wavy. His theory is that when he stopped destroying his liver, it let his body do things other than triage to keep him alive.

And now he shaves his head, so I have no idea if he has silver, though his beard seems to have some silver. I don't remember what age my parents started to go grey (actually, my dad's hair is a gorgeous white that I would LOVE), so I don't know when mine will go grey/silver/white. But since I'm going to be 45 in 8 days (shop now! shop now! shop now!) and I don't have any grey/white/silver, it may not happen until I'm older than dirt.

Or I'll be one of those people who (apocryphally) wake up one day with all their hair turned white. That would probably be okay, too.

The transition from blond seems to go first to dark then very slowly to grey.

My hair is so dark blonde that I've started getting highlights at least once a year. I just like looking beachy.

My dad hated is grey facial hair, but didn't have any issue with his head turning grey.

That's funny! My father had a white beard years before he had any grey on his head, which made people think he dyed his hair. And made my mother try to get him to dye the beard, to no avail.

Oh Dana, I hope today is better!

msbelle, I'm sorry for all of the drama. I wish there was an easy way to get mac to see the light.

Sophia, it's absolutely a legitimate rant. I've stopped engaging with people on FB about it. It's better for my mental health to ignore it. I will never change their minds.

I started going grey at 18. At this point I'm about 80-85% grey. I get my hair colored every 4 weeks, and I've gone much lighter because my roots were really starting to get noticeable. Now it's a little better.

I got to the office early, got a bunch of little things done, and now I feel like I've done enough for the day, or at least it should be lunch time by now. Oops. I did decide I can have lunch early, because it's the bake-off/baby shower this afternoon, but not THIS early!

I have a sort of rant this morning, and it probably isn't going to sound like a rant, because I am not a generally vitriolic person, but this Orlando/gun control thing is driving me NUTS.

I wish to subscribe to your rant, Sophia. I have a friend from playing D&D in Philly who's a gun nut, and I just can't. Granted, his first post on the tragedy was urging people to give blood. But since then, his bonnet is wide open and the bees are swarming. (Including, aside from the usual, a bit about militarising the police force, and a declaration before any evidence was in that it was clearly Islamic extremist terrorism.)

And of course he thinks he's being rational, but he's pretty obviously starting from the conclusion and working back. ("Here's the evidence it's IS terrorism!" "Wait, that doesn't say what you claimed." "Lack of clear evidence is exactly what you'd expect from modern terrorism!")

The belittling of any other viewpoint is getting wearing. And in the wake of Orlando I just can't.

Getting caught up in what is or isn't "proper" terrorism really makes me nuts. Can we focus on the MASS MURDER of doubly-marginalized people, please??

Getting caught up in what is or isn't "proper" terrorism really makes me nuts. Can we focus on the MASS MURDER of doubly-marginalized people, please??

THIS. The fact that he is Muslim trumps everything else. ISIS. Radical Islam. Kill 'em all. The victims don't matter. And that is heinous.

If he were white, he'd be labelled "mentally ill," which is really no better. Why can't we stick with "angry homicidal bigot" and leave it at that?

The second level managers at my office are really pretty shitty on the people management front. Their people are slack on many things and they never hold them to better standards or even speak to them about these things until the boss tells them to. I have to remind myself to stay in my lane.

Today we had a job that was supposed to start at 7am and while we had people in site our material was not there. The customer calls us 2 hours after the job was supposed to start wondering what is the issue and no one in the office knows about it. Employees on site did call their manager and he is in the field and he either did nothing or he only called the supplier. The supplier is OUR COMPANY just another location, they are supposed to let us know if deliveries are late. Totally bad management.

Was it a terrorist attack, a hate crime, or an unhinged individual who went off? So far it's looking like yes.