Year of the Beard

2009 is the year of the beard

 

The video! December 31, 2009

Filed under: Beard Talk — andy @ 4:24 pm

Year of the Beard from MyFriendCleveland on Vimeo.

 
 

Tomorrow is the last day December 30, 2009

Filed under: Beard Talk — andy @ 9:46 am

Hey Beard Fans!

 

Tomorrow is the last day of Year of the Beard. What a year it’s been. I know I have fallen off the blogging wagon recently so you may have been wondering how the beard growing is going. Rest assured, I still have the beard and all is well. Until Friday. Then this monstrosity is leaving my face. For good.

 

I’ve gotten a lot of questions recently so I’m going to try to answer a few here.

  

How much money did the last fundraiser make? We made $1,807! That’s absolutely absurd! I guess the chance to win a 40″ TV is all you really need to bring in some mad cash.

 

What are your plans to shave? Is there a party? No. I’m going to be shaving alone. It’s going to be a private, quiet, personal event. However I will video tape it and put it up on YouTube!

 

What’s going to happen to YearOfTheBeard.com?  Well we still have the domain name registered for another year, so if I see anything beard related, I’ll throw it up here. I’m not going to update regularly (not like I was doing that recently anyways), but at the beginning of the year I will post a video or two (one of me shaving, and another montage). So keep an eye out for those. I also am going to go back to my old video game blog. I sort of have that up and running now, but I’m going to get it more finalized, then I’ll post a link on here, if you wish to follow my writing career.

 

Will you ever grow a beard again?  Yes. I will start 2010 clean shaven, but honestly I think my best “look” is when I have a two week beard going. So I’ll probably be clean shaven for a bit, just to stay as far away from the beard look as possible. But I think pretty soon the task of shaving every day will annoy me, so I’ll rest on a comfortable stubble. But who knows.

 

What are the plans for 2010? Any other challenges/charities?  I have already signed up for one challenge in 2010, the Mile Challenge. The goal is to run 365 miles in 365 days. You don’t have to run a mile every day, it just has to average out. It’s not for charity, but it should help my health, which is good. I don’t have any fundraising planned yet, but I do plan on doing some volunteer work, most likely with kids.

 

Those are all the questions I can think of off the top of my head. If you have any others, feel free to email me. If you pledged money at the beginning of the year, I’m going to be emailing you tonight with my address. Please try to get your donation to me as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for the great year everyone!

 
 

What happened to November December 1, 2009

Filed under: Beard Pictures, Beard Talk — andy @ 6:02 pm

Well it’s December all of a sudden. I don’t know when that happened.

I guess I should probably announce the party that’s happening this Saturday. That’s right, short notice. If you’re my friend on Facebook you may have been aware a little earlier, but the fact is that our next fundraiser is going to be at McCarthy’s Downtown (same place as the March Fundraiser). The address is 1231 Main Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113. It starts at 7pm sharp. There is going to be food so bring your appetite. We’re also going to be raffling off prizes like we did last time. There will be cool baskets and gift cards, just like last time, but this time we have an even cooler prize. A 40″ Flatscreen HDTV! Yep, we got an amazing donation for the raffle, so come on out and try to win that thing! Party starts at 7pm, raffle will be at 10pm sharp! (but we’ll take donations after that if you just want to donate)

I really hope to see as many people as possible on Saturday.

In other news, a buddy of mine at work was in NYC recently and found something amazing. Why try to explain it when I can just show a picture?

Thomas getting some Beard Love in NYC