Ahoy, Steveo. As they used to say: God made a few good heads; the rest He covered with hair. I think I inherited the gene from my maternal grandfather, whom I loved. He was an artist and carpenter, so being more like him as I age actually provides assurance. I used to resent the inevitability of genetic inheritance, but since you cannot change it, I now fully appreciate the wisdom of chiming with it and celebrating it. I have been sly for a year and two months, during which my old persona has faded into ever more distant memory (I need ancient photos to recall the 'then'). One becomes completely comfortable, newbies, with baldness over time, to the point that one becomes a connoiseur of slickness. Sometimes I shave twice a day to retain maximum smoothness. Of course, a necessary component in this transformation is the support and liking of your significant other. In this, Karen (whose father was bald at an early age and who still remembers him as handsome) has been wonderful. If you're still fighting the losing battle against the inevitable, I suggest you note what so many guys on the forum have reflected on and then just wing it on faith and shave what's left all off. As RazorX has often observed, most guys look better bald. Certainly they look better bald than wearing comb-overs, rugs, or plugs. If you think about the icons in so many venues in our culture you will realize that the bare dome is in. Prof. Melon