Mo-ney shot!!

Well that is probably my silliest hat for the whole month...

Pre-op before getting day surgery to remove a cyst from my eyelid on the last day of Mo-vember, I tried taking another one afterwarsd but the drugs had kicked in and it is pretty blurry...

So my Movember takings were around $650 bucks towards the cause which I was very happy with - probably 6 times as much as I thought that I would actually raise. I have to say the whole Movember thing is an incredibly effective way to raise money - now if only I can get my new cause started - 'Beards for Bob' then I will really rake in some moolah!

Of course I know that there is no bigger loser then someone who is sporting a mo-vember mo in December but I ams till proudly growing my bushy shrub on my face - not because I want to keep the thing but because I am off to Sydney tonight and will be attending my sister's 40th on the weekend so want to show the whole family the thing 'in the flesh' as theys ay.

Can't wait to hear what my nieces and nephews think - it will probably scar them for life!!!

Which one is me?

A week to go

About a week to go and now things are going to get really really NASTY!!!

I cracked the $500 mark today and still have some donations to come - some of them are the guys you run into at the pub and who say - 'yeah sure I'd better give you some money for that' and you just know that the minute you are out of sight that they will forget.

But some are the more sincere 'so how do I make a donation?' types - they are the ones that I have my beady little eyes upon - will have to spam them with an update...

How are you guys going?

LOL!!!

In the spirit of Magnum PI

Although now I have to do something about that chin... all three of them!

My new theory is that facial hair is the homo-spaien version of antenna because you can feel threats easier before they actually touch your skin. Once I grew a beard for a couple of months but it always annoyed me that I felt like it entered the room before I did - you can just feel so much more through your folicles then when cleanly shaven. Apparently this thing is very nasty on the skin when I kiss anyone!

This week I want to hit the $500 mark - how is everyone else going?

Classy?

Hey guys - here is a slightly more casual look. Note the slight sculpting of the mo towards the edges...

However enough of these hirsute shenanigans - the real object of this hairy project is to raise money! A couple of tips on how to do this better based upon my own experience :

1. ASK people to give you money! This may seem to be a very obvious tactic but it hardly ever fails - most Aussies are too embarressed to actually ask anyone for money when they are involved in fundraising - Americans seem to be much better at it (as are those annoying backpacker types who hassle you in the street to join Amnesty or whatever is paying their salary for the day). In the case of Mo-Vember they have made it much easier by providing the tools to do it on the Mo-space website. Most blokes are so relieved that someone else is going through the hassle of growing a mo that they are happy to contribute and a lot of my funds have come from people I haven't seen in years and may never actually see the mo in person.

2. Prime the Plate - if you are sitting there with $0 in donations - it is much harder to get other people to be the first to donate. This of course has been a mainstay of the Catholic Church for centuries and hardly fails - put your own money where your mouth is and make a donation of the size that you hope other people will make. Also it would just be more embarressing to go through the whole mo-month without raising a cent.

Anyway I am off back to work - good mo-growing and good luck with fundraising - after all that is the real point!!!

-Bob-

You call that a moustache....