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Nurse Dave's Journal

2323 days of consecutive shaving - 1055 open-blade
Feather SS w/ Feather Proguard (1)
Fine Platinum
Barber Pole
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1
Missoni

Updates:

Medical - MIL had a successful stenting and was booted home the day after. She agreed to cut back to working half-time but she doesn't want to quit because then she would be just sitting around the house. I took my wife to her post-op appointment yesterday and we were hoping he might be able to stop wearing her cervical collar. Nope, she's in that thing for another 6 weeks. Pretty bummed because apparently, that's a big contributor to the muscle spasms that cause pain every day. But medically, the healing is going as it should.

Holidays - Had Ruldolph riding my butt this week, so that was fun. Have a few boxes of presents still to ship out so I need to get those wrapped and packed so I can ship them tomorrow. Finished up lights on the front of the house yesterday and then did a row of lights on the back deck. I somehow seem to have run out of extension cords so I need to figure out routing power to the deck railing. I think some of the kids might have taken cords with them when they left the house.

Work—I got assigned to be co-chair of our Medical Ethics committee. I've been a member for years and received the training during COVID to decide who would get the ventilators if we ran out. Thank goodness we never had to play that role! But this is still an area I'm nowhere near as strong in as the physicians on the committee, so in 2025 I'll have my professional goals related to more training in this area. Lastly, this has been an exceptionally strong Cobb salad week. Three lunches covered by salads and today one to take home for dinner.
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Good to hear about the MIL and the Better Half. Good thing you have a passing knowledge of the medical field......otherwise your cobb salad intake would be near nil.
 
Sun:

2325 days of consecutive shaving - 1057 open-blade
Shavette w/ Wizamet (2)
MacDuff Bad Santa
Paladin Neptune El Dorado
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1

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2326 days of consecutive shaving - 1058 open-blade
Shavette w/ Wizamet (3)
CBL Drinks & Daves
RazoRock synth
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1
CBL Drinks & Daves AS
Floris Islay

Not a ton this weekend. We did get to knock out Shawshank Redemption and Silence of the Lambs on our journey to watch the 100 top movies. Up next is Raging Bull. Out and about for a bunch of little errands. I keep seeing Sodastream stuff all over the place, and it had a nice discount at Target. I have no reason to get one, but I went down the YouTube rabbit hole when I woke up in the middle of the night trying to see if one actually saves money getting one. There's a ton of variables with some folks really getting into it and hardwiring their machine into large CO2 bottles from brewing supply places. Anyway, I finally gave in and just ordered one after realizing I was still spending entirely too much time thinking about it. I figure the worst outcome is bringing it to work if we don't use it at home.

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Tues:

2327 days of consecutive shaving - 1058 open-blade
Occam OREN w/ Feather Proguard (2)
Lothur Dave
Chisel & Hound
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1

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Wed:

2328 days of consecutive shaving - 1059 open-blade
Shavette w/ Wizamet (4)
A&E Vanille de Tabac
Maggard synth
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1
Le Labo Tabac 28

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2329 days of consecutive shaving - 1060 open-blade
Feather SS w/ Feather Proguard (2)
The Holy Black Black Gold
Wolf Whiskers
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1
The Holy Black Cowboy Coffee AS

So a little while ago I was nicely voicing my frustration that The Holy Black discontinued their Cowboy Coffee scent while at the same time stating it was very popular. It still boarders on stupid, but I read on their website that Black Gold is very close. Which, again, why not just make Cowboy Coffee but what ever. So I did score me some Black Gold soap and it is a wonderful pure coffee smell. I do recommend it.

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It still boarders on stupid, but I read on their website that Black Gold is very close. Which, again, why not just make Cowboy Coffee but what ever. So I did score me some Black Gold soap and it is a wonderful pure coffee smell.
Looks like their plan guaranteed another sale.

I really despise their business model. It's obviously successful but it just seems so wrong.
 
I really despise their business model. It's obviously successful but it just seems so wrong.
I guess? But I couldn't buy the matching AS splash because they were out of that. So it seems like they create demand, but limit profits by not having enough inventory. Whatever.
 
remember, shave soap business is just one revenue stream. They have plenty of other stuff, including a chain of barbershops that go very very well. Trust me they’re doing OK profit wise.
 
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