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[GearNoir]

Shave #98 (1400 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Gillette Super Adjustable, Astra SP blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Penhaligon’s Sartorial to finish!

OT workout later today.

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #99 (1400 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Gillette Super Adjustable, Astra SP blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and TF Beau De Jour to finish!

Tough workout last night!

Today starts with a mandatory all staff. Free breakfast sandwiches supposedly…so there’s that.

 

[MarkB]

. Free breakfast sandwiches supposedly…so there’s that.

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #100 (1400 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Gillette Super Adjustable, Astra SP blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Dior Homme Original to finish!

Happy Friday y’all! 50% chance of rain today

 

[heysi]

50% chance of rain today

No....that can't be true. You live in southern California. It never rains.

 

[GearNoir]

No....that can't be true. You live in southern California. It never rains.

Hearing that we may have an El Niño summer this year. Not looking forward to that!

 

[heysi]

Hearing that we may have an El Niño summer this year. Not looking forward to that!

My entire school lifetime was an El Nino summer.

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #101 (1401 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Prada Luna Rossa to finish!

Up for the training run.

A little spittle yesterday that couldn’t really be called rain. More chances today and tomorrow.

 

[GearNoir]

No records today. The first half of the run felt pretty rough, with various thresholds I just couldn’t break through initially. But we got it done!

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #102 (1402 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Prada L’Homme to finish!

Have a blessed Sunday all!

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #103 (1403 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Dior Homme Sport ‘19 to finish!

Back to the grind!

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #104 (1404 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Comme Des Garçon Avignon to finish!

Tough OT workout last night but we rewarded ourselves with pizza…worth it!

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #105 (1405 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Dior Homme ‘20 to finish!

Some good volleyball last night as the youngest had a home game we watched.

OT workout this evening.

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #106 (1406 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Tom Ford Mandarino Di Amalfi to finish!

IDT this morning…then another busy day of visits. Been pretty grindy lately.

 

[heysi]

Did you get Olympic tickets? My purchase window opened with incredibly low inventory and what there was available was so overpriced I passed. (closing ceremony for $4900!!!) Plus none of the events we wanted had availability.

 

[GearNoir]

Did you get Olympic tickets? My purchase window opened with incredibly low inventory and what there was available was so overpriced I passed. (closing ceremony for $4900!!!) Plus none of the events we wanted had availability.

My wife’s window came and is now passed. Everything there was at least several hundred dollars a person if not many times more. Reasonable, maybe, for 1-2 people…but we have 5. We passed. I’ll see what pops up in my window.

 

[heysi]

I have a buddy that lives in orange county His window opened a week before mine and he was only able to get baseball semi finals and soccer semi finals. He also got shut out on so many events.

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #107 (1407 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille to finish!

Happy Friday y’all!

 

[MarkB]

Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille to finish!

Oh yeah!!!

 

[GearNoir]

Shave #108 (1408 lifetime Open Blade Shaves) of 2026:

Gear: Tedalus Essence, Schick Proline blade, Yaqi Moka synth brush, Clown Puke tub soap, homemade witch hazel/aloe, Nivea Sensitive AS Balm, some kind of AS, and Prada Luna Rossa to finish!

Up early unfortunately. It’s a volleyball tournament day for the youngest out of town. Boooo.