2018 shave #173 (DE:43 SE:60 Str:68 Cart:2)
Asylum "The Doctor" RX w/ Feather Proguard (3)
SV 70th
Sorrentino TSC brush
Witch Hazel & Alum
Nivea post shave balm
SV 70th AS
Back home and opted for a delicious shave. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's great to have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to shaving supplies. Every day I can use a soap and think "I should use this more often". Out of curiosity, I tried a couple of strokes KJ style and went from the sideburns all the way to the base of the next in one stroke. It worked fine, but I guess I just enjoy a slow and steady shave and like it taking some time. It was great feeling the closeness of the RX again paired with the moisturizing of the SV soap. Nice way to start a day that I hope will end in a nap after work. And darn you video posting guys. Now I find myself thinking what I'd be saying during a shave.
Made it back home. We were delayed over an hour because of a storm that hit right as we were to be boarding. Due to lightening, they had to pull everyone inside so boarding couldn't commence. Then after boarding there was a delay on the ramp because of a backlog of flights needing to depart. No biggie. I took a Dramamine thinking of bumpy skies on take-off and had a pre take-off rum and coke to help mellow the mind. Things were fine after that.
The last day in D.C. was again busy for me. For the 3rd day in a row, after telling myself I wasn't going to walk to get where I was going, the weather was more mild and I walked anyway. Of course the sun came out and it started to heat up. Oh well. I got to see the other side of the Capital, which was almost absent of people and easier to take pictures of. Then I got a couple pics of the Supreme Court building and noticed signs pointing to the public entrances. I didn't think the public could just roam around in there. Then I headed across the street to the Library of Congress. That building is beautiful inside and they had a room with what still exists of the original Jefferson library. There was a grand reading room you could look into, but not the stacks and stacks of books one would assume you would see there. I thought this might be in the library building across the street, but then I got thinking of the Supreme Court. I did a quick search on my phone and saw that indeed you can go in. That sounded more interesting and meaningful to me. So I headed back there. When you're just strolling around, you can only look through a couple of doorways into the court itself, but when you take the 25min courtroom lecture, you actually go in and sit in the public benches. I snuck a quick pic when I got in (no pics allowed) and then sat in awe of the weight of decisions made in that room. Then headed back to the hotel to checkout and gather my wife, who was finally done working for the trip. We had just enough time to grab lunch together and then tour the Portrait Gallery.
All in all, one of those whirlwind, tiring, but experience producing trips. It was pretty much my first time doing something like that on my own for the most part. I'm not one that likes to have experiences I can't share with my spouse. But it was a personally good experience in that I could make in the moment decisions to do this or that or skip large sections of something entirely. Plus there wasn't the worry that a decision I made is making someone else exhausted or hungry or what have you. And I'm glad I got to see what I did.