Thanks for the comments and advice, guys.  I miscalculated the number of weeks I've been growing, it's actually been seven.  I resisted the impulse to trim it back and am still shooting for three months.  My daughter came down with a 24 hr bug so we couldn't go to the father-daughter dance after all.  She's all better today.

DoNTM0V3: Thanks for the complement, DoNT.  This is the longest my mustache has ever been and I like it aside for the occasional wild hair.

Trick:  Thanks for the support, Trick.  It's good to have a beard friendly group for a little positive reinforcement.  I'm back to riding the wave as you suggested.  

Tom E:  Thanks, Tom.  I'm following the advice from you and the others here on growing the bigger mustache and beard.  The hair below my jaw felt different this morning - really thick and long.  I wondered if I could have had the "drop" others have spoken of, but it's probably too short to be that yet.  Feels like a carpet though.  Pretty cool.

Cheers!

"He adorned man like the lions, with a beard...", St Clement of Alexandria
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“Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.”  - Screwtape (a senior demon),  The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C. S. Lewis

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