Trials of a woodpusher: Adventures in chess, backyard gardening, and maybe whisker chopping

[woodpusher]

As @August West would say ..... HA!

The kids are all busy with the online social media stuff. Even my neighbour (with the snow blower) has to shovel even though his two boys are in the 10-14 year old range. The most work they would do is to search the App Store for a snow shovel game. In the summer, I offered to pay them to help with my weeding, but they wanted $20 for a half hour.

 

[MilkCrate]

Feb.02: ASD2 w/Feather(2) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

A better lather today than yesterday, but still nowhere near what I shoot for, even though I loaded a LOT longer and had copious amounts of "fling fodder." Still, it's hard to complain when it is so slick.

Storm system coming in later today and I am already anticipating the back pain.

Fling Fodder for the win!

 

[Bill M]

No kids in the neighborhood that you can hire for $5?

Canadian or USD?

The market for shoveling must be bad, I used to get that….50 years ago.

 

[woodpusher]

Feb.03: ASD2 w/Feather(3) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

It's gonna be a looooong month with Williams. Not having a lot of success lathering it, but that is pretty much par for the course with the modern puck (vintage rocks!). Looking back at my 3017 log, it seems a puck lasts me around 2 months, whether grated or ungrated. So maybe I am looking at this through March as well. *ugh*

 

[GearNoir]

Is it any consolation that you did this to yourself?

 

[NurseDave]

Is it any consolation that you did this to yourself?

They make movies about guys like Sam. They usually outsmart the FBI and the last scene of the movie is them slowly blending into the crowd in a European country.

 

[woodpusher]

 

[Cvargo]

Checks Calendar....

Alright who had February 3rd for Sam regretting to agree to 3017 Williams?

 

[woodpusher]

The winner would have chosen a date in January.

 

[wristwatchb]

Feb.01: ASD2 w/Feather(1) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

1st day with the Blue Willy (Williams+Aqua Velva) and, as expected, a super weak lather but with lots of slickness. It will take a few days to get this dialed in, but I have to tell you that modern Williams has always been a challenge for me to get the kind of lather that I am accustomed to.

I also started in on a month with a Feather blade. We'll see how this goes; I've never tried to do this with a Feather before.

It will be fun to follow your month-long Feather challenge. I used them exclusively for my first few years of DE shaving. I fell for the celebrity endorsements.

 

[wristwatchb]

Feb.01: ASD2 w/Feather(1) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

1st day with the Blue Willy (Williams+Aqua Velva) and, as expected, a super weak lather but with lots of slickness. It will take a few days to get this dialed in, but I have to tell you that modern Williams has always been a challenge for me to get the kind of lather that I am accustomed to.

I also started in on a month with a Feather blade. We'll see how this goes; I've never tried to do this with a Feather before.

 

[wristwatchb]

They make movies about guys like Sam. They usually outsmart the FBI and the last scene of the movie is them slowly blending into the crowd in a European country.

or maybe...

 

[woodpusher]

Feb.04: ASD2 w/Feather(4) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

Have to try using way less water tomorrow with the Williams and loading with a damp brush. I have a while to get this figured out. Yaaay me

 

[woodpusher]

Feb.05: ASD2 w/Feather(5) ............. Paladin Sumo .......... Williams .................................. Nivea Protect & Care balm

Dribbled some distilled water on the soap this morning and loaded with a damp brush (i.e. a SOLID squeeze of the knot) and was rewarded right away with a much better lather. It even stayed on my face longer before dissipating! Will I do this every day? Probably not, but you never know.

 

[NurseDave]

Will I do this every day? Probably not

I hear you, why stick with what works?

 

[woodpusher]

Yeah, that would be so very un-me!

 

[wristwatchb]

Serious question (and I know this is frowned upon here )

How about using the Williams puck as a shave stick (rub the puck on your face) to get a better lather? It would load quite a lot of soap, and it may help. If nothing else, it would get rid of it faster. I grated an MWF puck, pressed it into a shave stick, and it worked much better for me that way.

 

[woodpusher]

Yup, that is a perfectly acceptable way to use it, whether grated or in natural puck form.

 

[Bill M]

Serious question (and I know this is frowned upon here )

How about using the Williams puck as a shave stick (rub the puck on your face) to get a better lather? It would load quite a lot of soap, and it may help. If nothing else, it would get rid of it faster. I grated an MWF puck, pressed it into a shave stick, and it worked much better for me that way.

Now there you go again, dropping all resemblance of a highly decorated and respected Shenanigator and grabbing your engineering cap to ask some stoopidly useful question.

I demand that you cease and desist with this obnoxious behavior else it will be required that you spend the night in the box.

Sheest, kids these days!

 

[wristwatchb]

Now there you go again, dropping all resemblance of a highly decorated and respected Shenanigator and grabbing your engineering cap to ask some stoopidly useful question.

I demand that you cease and desist with this obnoxious behavior else it will be required that you spend the night in the box.

Sheest, kids these days!