Make sure you go in with your eyes wide open. Also listen to your wife. I found that I would get so excited (desperate? ) that I often overlooked potential problems but was saved by my wife's intuition.
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GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Luckily the entry fee this time was fairly low
Yep...still a work shift to get through too!
Absolutely! Things have gone fairly swimmingly in the process so far, albeit very quickly. The visit will hopefully either tie the knot for us or give us a way to gracefully bow out. Right now she’s probably a tad more excited than I am in regards to the possibilities of life over there, I’m focused a bit more on the task I’d have ahead of me. Many things to consider in the next month.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Didn’t think of it that way before, lol...but you’re pretty much right!
The area boasts of some beaches nicer than CA and HI...them’s pretty big britches to fill, we’ll see!
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Thanks Kyle, that’s good to keep in mind. We are hoping we’re not going to be retained the entire time. We’d definitely like to do a little exploration of at least the immediate area, on our own, if we can.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
I’m interested to see what Mississippi cuisine is like too!
Hopefully it’s light on the gator, snake, n nutria.
hey Gator is good eatin! no experience with the other though
Somehow I missed this update. That's pretty cool Gear. You at least know there is potential to find out there. Through my dad's work in ministry I lived in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Oregon. I'm sure it's tough to move a household, but I'm glad I had the experience. When we moved to Penn, I ended up doing a presentation to my 2nd grade about the Air & Space museum because nobody had been there despite D.C. being like 2-3 hours away! People need to see what's out there.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
The Bourbon Trail is north of me and fun to do but can't be done even in several days.
MilkCrate
"I am a Milk Crate with Dreams"
That’s what I was thinking of. We drove through there to see the Ark.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
When my wife and I did the trail you had I think 7-8 distilleries you had to visit. It's grown and need days to do them all but it's fun when they're spread out visits.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Thank you all for the encouragement gents! I know there is a country full of sites and experiences I’ve missed out on up to this point, being a homebody. Should this go through, we’re definitely going to do a bit of exploring our first years!
That’s good to hear. The kids are honestly the ones we’re worrying about the most. They’ve been so close to all of the family their entire lives and built up many years worth of friendships, it’ll be a little tough for a while I’m sure, but we’re trying to help them see it as a bit of an adventure.
That’s good to hear. The kids are honestly the ones we’re worrying about the most. They’ve been so close to all of the family their entire lives and built up many years worth of friendships, it’ll be a little tough for a while I’m sure, but we’re trying to help them see it as a bit of an adventure.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Shave #262 (341 Open Blade Shaves) of 2019:
Gear: Kai Kamisori clone, Feather Pro blade, Schick M Adjustable, Supply blade, Yaqi SF synth brush, CBL 50 SoV soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, and Fine Clean Vetiver AS to finish!
Now that’s a proper clone!
Transferred the Feather Pro our of the Feather clone this morning and into the Kai clone. The quality/care of this clone’s make over the Feather clone is very noticeable. It’s innards might still lack a little finesse, but outwardly it’s pretty clean! One side of the sliding clip panel allows for a tad bit of uneven exposure, but I did not feel that it affected the shave and the rest seems like properly tight tolerances and finish.
I chose a soap of above average quality for the first go around - CBL 50 SoV. I’ve never used a kamisori type open blade before, but I can see why some might find it attractive over a folding type when first learning. I pretty much mimicked the same strokes I would use with a folder, just adjusted for the handle type of the kami. Because the hold on the kami makes you want to grip it a bit more “full fisted”, I did have to be careful with pressure. That might be one area a folding type has its advantages, it forces a more delicate finger hold.
As for the shave itself, it simply did what I felt like it should. I completed 2 passes. It didn’t force a steep angle, I did not cut myself (surprising for a first time out), and the shave was fairly smooth. Though the materials are “inferior” I’ll say that I appreciated the slicker finish and rubberized grip of the clone over the machine finish and hard plastic scales of Feather DX folder I tried a few weeks ago.
As it stands, if QC is consistent, this might be a good investment to get into the AC style open blade game! Looking forward to another shave with it tomorrow.
In other things...first weekend of October. That’s the planned date for our Mississippi visit, just the missus and me. We’ll spend a couple of days, meet the elders and pastor, see a Sunday morning, and hopefully get out (just the two of us) for a bit to explore the immediate area...they do have a Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell, so there’s some semblance of home, lol.
Otherwise, today at work, among other things, is the appreciation get together for the church volunteers, likely a couple hundred of them will attend. And I’ve got a teaching to squeeze out between now and next week for the senior’s bible study!
Have a great Thursday all!
Gear: Kai Kamisori clone, Feather Pro blade, Schick M Adjustable, Supply blade, Yaqi SF synth brush, CBL 50 SoV soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, and Fine Clean Vetiver AS to finish!
Now that’s a proper clone!
Transferred the Feather Pro our of the Feather clone this morning and into the Kai clone. The quality/care of this clone’s make over the Feather clone is very noticeable. It’s innards might still lack a little finesse, but outwardly it’s pretty clean! One side of the sliding clip panel allows for a tad bit of uneven exposure, but I did not feel that it affected the shave and the rest seems like properly tight tolerances and finish.
I chose a soap of above average quality for the first go around - CBL 50 SoV. I’ve never used a kamisori type open blade before, but I can see why some might find it attractive over a folding type when first learning. I pretty much mimicked the same strokes I would use with a folder, just adjusted for the handle type of the kami. Because the hold on the kami makes you want to grip it a bit more “full fisted”, I did have to be careful with pressure. That might be one area a folding type has its advantages, it forces a more delicate finger hold.
As for the shave itself, it simply did what I felt like it should. I completed 2 passes. It didn’t force a steep angle, I did not cut myself (surprising for a first time out), and the shave was fairly smooth. Though the materials are “inferior” I’ll say that I appreciated the slicker finish and rubberized grip of the clone over the machine finish and hard plastic scales of Feather DX folder I tried a few weeks ago.
As it stands, if QC is consistent, this might be a good investment to get into the AC style open blade game! Looking forward to another shave with it tomorrow.
In other things...first weekend of October. That’s the planned date for our Mississippi visit, just the missus and me. We’ll spend a couple of days, meet the elders and pastor, see a Sunday morning, and hopefully get out (just the two of us) for a bit to explore the immediate area...they do have a Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell, so there’s some semblance of home, lol.
Otherwise, today at work, among other things, is the appreciation get together for the church volunteers, likely a couple hundred of them will attend. And I’ve got a teaching to squeeze out between now and next week for the senior’s bible study!
Have a great Thursday all!
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everybody guess what
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it's Monday that means me gear nor the
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shaving cadre calm good to be back with
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you guys I'm here for my weekly shave
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video oh yes much fun and enjoyment
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something new today the missus went and
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did a thing and not only in the last
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couple of days did she get me a nice
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bottle of bourbon mmm Eagle rare first
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time I've ever had that I snuck it on
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her grocery list and she's like what is
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this and I said I don't know what you're
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talking about
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I don't know I don't know what you mean
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and she's like yeah what she got it
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anyway because she loves me
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it was $35 that's the little pro the
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price was at the place we got a little
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more expensive then some of the other
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places buy a couple bucks at least here
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in California but dang that's a pretty
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good bourbon if you're looking that's
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kind of like the top price I think I
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would pay for a bottle of bourbon you
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never know
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curiosity gets the better of you
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sometimes but it was pretty dang good so
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she got me that and I'm looking forward
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to having more of that probably tonight
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just sips getting drunk or anything I
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promise and she also with my
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mother-in-law yesterday and the kids
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went to a place locally called Apple
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Hill it's about 45 to an hour drive away
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from Sacramento here and they specialize
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obviously by the name and all things
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Apple they've got a ton of apple
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orchards up in the hills there and it's
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open to the public most of the time
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there's many different it's like a co-op
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of many different kind of Apple farms
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and there's usually shops at each one or
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small activities to do you know like
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farms kind of stuff hay rides or
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enjoying apple pies and one of their big
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things is they're fresh
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like apple cider zand apple juice and
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apple doughnuts I got some of those for
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after the shave oh yeah eat that
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David Kentucky then anyway one of the
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vendors there happen to sell soaps this
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is gonna be a little bit of a test
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because the pure essential oil and spice
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included in this is cinnamon I don't
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know if I've ever had a cinnamon me at
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least this pure kind of soap before but
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this is a shaving soap mr. Beardsley
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shaving soap from feather falls soap
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company where they're actually at a
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Chico that's also California but they
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use essential oils and base oils of
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olive coconut and sustainable palm so
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we'll see how this does cinnamon is an
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irritant for a lot of people and I'm not
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quite sure if that includes me so I've
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got a little bowl here's this is not
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actually a shapeable but I'm gonna bloom
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it just a tad we'll see how it goes I'm
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not gonna make make you guys wait too
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long it's already been three and a half
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minutes so I gotta get going back to my
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old routine and talking too much anyway
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just let it bloom long enough so I can
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let my big bruise hear something else
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that's been going on in my shaving world
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on the PSC is I'm involved in a number
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of pastor rounds one of which came in
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today I'm the last person on the chain
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and that is muckey John sent out his our
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FB raised a flat-bottomed this is I
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think these are considered Gillette news
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I have an old type you've seen me shave
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with that before and it actually been
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comparisons with that and today I
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promised I'd do a little video with this
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guy and give some kind of final thoughts
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I've actually had this will be my
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fourth shave with it and I think I'm
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pretty well solidified where is that how
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I like it
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and especially in comparison with new
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let's see if we can get this safe soap
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going never use this kind of stuff
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before like I said it's a local artisan
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your puck only cost about six bucks
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which isn't bad and you saw how big it
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is I mean that's pretty hefty that's
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like actual hockey-puck sized yeah that
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kind of thing we'll get try to get a
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good load here this is a little bit of a
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harder soap it seems like maybe some
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kind of melt and pour and involved in it
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but will give them the benefit of the
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doubt and say they just figure it out
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there on the sofa recipe this seemed
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like there's some glycerin base though
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you can see it's building up and I'm
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just overloading here because I don't
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know what to expect
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smells good my wife says it smells a lot
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like the clove stuff like beer um she
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there's not a fantasy room I know I love
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it
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bootleggers and whatnot okay this is
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feeling a lot like gosh honey Ebisu her
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her soaps that blisterin kind of vase
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melting for base
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so this is definitely something you want
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to kind of wet up real good before you
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use it I'm probably gonna have to make
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more about there at some point and go
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back and reload no irritation yet that's
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good
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but my wife smells bay rum when she
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smells this says it's very close for her
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to me it smells a little bit I can get
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that bay rum but it smells more like a
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really really spiced up like apple cider
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I mean obviously think from Apple health
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it's gonna have an Apple II kind of
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theme but that's what I get so this
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isn't the best lather we'll get this
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going
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looks like it's gonna disappear on me
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actually even my soap is telling me to
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hurry up anyway so I got this rfb about
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five or six days ago
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and yeah I'm gonna have to load more all
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right
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new products only five or six days ago I
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got this in the mail kind of try out
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from John a couple others have been in
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the past around and already given their
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thoughts most of them
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we're convinced enough to want to go
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look for one themselves head hotel I was
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looking over here but it's over here
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it's which this places on me like that
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eyepatch and there's a movie is it
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Princess Bride I can't remember we're in
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a hunchback of notre dame where the home
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switch says anyway where is that the
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Young Frankenstein maybe that's the
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Young Frankenstein and more soap here
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this is pretty frothy and it's a nice
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shave I mean even keeping up with what
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my post my thoughts on TSE you know I'm
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not disappointed with it I mean it's a
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cool a rarer piece of shave history a
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lot of people that do use them love them
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over the other kinds of news short comb
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or long comb or I think maybe the only
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one that might be like just as much as
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the deluxe oops I already did that it's
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alright this is actually pretty slick
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I'm definitely thinking glycerin base
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yeah it disappeared right now this is
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one of those you have to load heavy and
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work really good
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I'll keep that in mind for the future
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certainly smells good
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mmm so I shaved two days in a row with
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it it was like Thursday Friday and
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that's all right
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eat shave has gotten a little bit better
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as I do it and a little bit smoother
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because the first day was actually a
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little tug and it feels like to me the
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rfb has a a narrower cutting range or
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optimal cutting window than the Lancome
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I visually compared the the heads of the
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Lancome and auravie and it looks like
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the rfp has a bigger gap but for some
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reason doesn't translate as well into
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its cutting power my first shave was
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little tug II here and there when I was
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rounding corners and I mean that some of
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that's to be expected because it's a new
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razor and each razor has to kind of be
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learned
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so you building some lather here had to
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reload but overall I said yesterday I'll
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stick my if I didn't have the Lancome I
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would probably not know any better and I
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would think Ray's flat bottom would be a
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great shave for an open code open combs
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are just a little bit naturally more
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aggressive anyway and so I would expect
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some kind of aggression but I've been
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getting more into mild razors lately I
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did buy a game changer 0.8 for open comb
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you guys to see me is that and I've got
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that new long comb that I traded for
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I've got to be careful today I've got
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interview I don't want to cut myself of
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course now that I said that but anyway
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yeah if I didn't have the Lancome
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I'd probably not know any better I think
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it was great worth the price that they
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usually are I don't know in that regard
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it's another reason I'm happy with the
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Lancome but overall I feel the Lancome
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is a bit smoother more smooth however
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you want to say that it just has a kind
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of a rough edge for me
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some of the strokes it's easy to go from
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smooth to catching your breath a little
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bit like oh I'm not gonna cut myself
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so I feel all the Lancome has a slight
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advantage that way and you know I've
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never saved with a fur coat otherwise so
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I couldn't make that comparison that
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would probably be a better comparison of
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those sort come to the rfb rather than
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the lancome to the RZ but you know
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that's why there's parents and very
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generous people like John let people
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borrow their razors
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so I appreciate that I have the Lancome
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now a little bit more great to try the
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RFP
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but seems like as much as most other
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people enjoy our the RFP I'd be happy
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with it but I'm not gonna go out and
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look for one I'd be happy with one if I
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had it but I don't
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alright I'll leave that there like I
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said I got an interview today was done
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out of state job ministry work and I
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don't think we're gonna be doing I can
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be doing a face-to-face call like a
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Skype or anything as far as I know but
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just in case yeah it's kind of a pretty
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bubbly weather smells really good nice
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and slick painted by a lot of glycerin
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it feels like it does feel like the
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honeybee soaks like a cross between a
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honeybee soap and like Williams or
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something
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in terms of the lather structure that's
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really that lighter more airy lather and
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if I be a little more chance to work
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with it I'm sure I'll figure it out
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better but thank you honey
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they just randomly on our way back we
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went out to dinner last night and that
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was met them at the restaurant tonight
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to do other stuff while they were at
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Apple Hill oh my yard work those well
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she goes I bought you a shaving soap I
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was a little taken aback random thing
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but I guess that's 6 bucks it made her
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feel it was worth it so good report
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cinnamon doesn't seem to be something
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that affects me that's nice
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good to know
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cold water here
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speaking of John we have got something I
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haven't sent him as bingo prize yet but
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something's in the works I hope he's
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gonna be happy with it something very
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special and so hopefully not sure
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exactly what's gonna arrive but please
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let us know when you do get it something
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I don't think anybody in the cadre is
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used so be a little bit unique that way
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you're looking forward to your thoughts
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on it seeing you may be usually - even
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so some witch hazel let some things now
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we've been using both lately even though
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they're kind of the same thing I used
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the generic witch hazel more for its
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regular witch hazel properties and
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things more for the extra skin food it
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has so it's kind of clothing kind of
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sentiment II I don't really have
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anything that matches that really well
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but I'm gonna use some modern Old Spice
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I think kind of well doesn't like this
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either I used to wear this like junior
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high in high school well I like it might
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not be as good as it was back then this
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modern stuff that still pretty good and
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that's the shape for today
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got some nice sleep today it was kind of
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a dragging weekend we had a huge event
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on Friday that we'd been preparing for a
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day or two in advance
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so that day with just a bunch of stuff
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was going on and then we had to clean up
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after it all and yeah it was pretty
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crazy and I was beat my wife saw this
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huge bruise on my shin yesterday morning
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but that's from like cleaning up that
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event got banged around a lot and all
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that kind of stuff I had to do yard work
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yesterday yeah so that's been a busy
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weekend busy week looking forward to
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this new one happy Monday everybody hope
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you all have a good one the rest of my
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shaves can be caught up at WWDC van
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cadre comm we've got a little journal
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there monkeys bingo game is about to
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start John the winner from the last game
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my game he's got some crazy idea going
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on it's gonna be like sudden-death bingo
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where there's two cards and you sign up
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for one of the cars that you want
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everybody gets the same card or
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something like that and then first
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person to pop up with bingo there it so
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gotta pay attention I guess but we'll
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see how that goes and catch us up there
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thanks for watching you all have a great
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week
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
You drinking at work Dave, boy you have a nice Boss even if he stinks of fish......
Dude, it still smells today!