Took the advice that I was given yesterday and practiced stropping with a butter knife and then did strop my razor. Felt more anxious putting blade to leather than I did blade to face.

Must have done okay as the shave felt really good.

Tried the Baume.BE today and had no problems with lather at all. Really liked it.

Shaved right side again and also tried some across the grain. Switched to the left side and just did with the grain. At one point forgot what I was doing and tried using right hand on the left side and that felt very uncomfortable (just blade on face not even a stroke) so quickly switched back to the left.

Need to do some work with positioning in mirror for side burn line (I have none so line is above my ears) and the side by ears. Seems that I had to do that by feel instead of sight.

Last night at work I kept checking difference between right (side I did with straight razor) and the left side. As the night continued I could feel more and more of a difference with the right side being much smoother.

No cuts (knock on wood) no razor burn, just a great feeling shave.

Can't wait to shave again tomorrow.

If my progression into straight razor shaving is boring, I can stop posting. Not really sure what is appropriate on this sight, as I am so new.