what to do with this face?

I got my 2nd Pfizer dose this morning, which means it's finally time to rid myself of this excessive "covid beard".  I knew this was a long haul event, so I promised myself at the beginning of lockdown that I wouldn't shave until I was finally vaccinated.  The last photo I have of me pre-covid is the thumbnail for this post, back in 2018 with my hair tied back at work.  In contrast, this photo is me now.  (As usual, click the photo to see the larger full image.)

Assuming my reaction to the vaccine this time would be like the first dose, I got home and started doing some gardening before the very sore bicep takes effect this afternoon.  So this is me today after about 2 hours of digging and hauling transplants around my yard.  Behind me in this photo are patches of 2 different raspberries, some fruit trees, some mullein and other native wildflowers, and a few bayberries (from which I hope to make at least 1 Christmas candle one of these years).

Now, what should I do with this facial hair?  I am NOT a fan of the very hairy upper lip.  It's in the way of eating and drinking, and I dislike it mightily.  It needs to go.  Does that mean just a very short buzz over my face once a month like I did pre-covid?  Or one of those things I call a Quaker beard, with the lip shaved and the rest of the beard short?  Or something else in between?

Meanwhile, one thing I learned during the covid lockdown is that my ear hair grows just as fast as my beard.  I'm not really a fan of that hair either.

I remember as a kid when my mother took me to the barber.  After he cut my head hair with scissors, he would take an electric shaver to the back of my neck and then finally around the curve of my ears.  I was in my 20s somewhere when I finally realized that other people aren't like that.  Oh, well.  Sometimes I referred to them as my werewolf ears or my hobbit ears.  I know, hobbits are known for hairy feet, not ears.  Maybe it's just some of my Neanderthal lineage expressing itself?

I think after seeing how they natively grow, though, that from now on I will call them my werelynx ears.  The hair on top slopes backwards to meet the other hair growing upwards.  They'd definitely form a lynx point if they weren't this fragile, so they could grow longer before breaking.

Anyway.  Time to shave some parts of my face... and all of my ears finally.  But in what pattern?  I can't decide.  I didn't get the fashion gay gene.