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Tuesday morning:



Il Coloniali Mango SS
Rooney Silvertip
W.B. Sheffield "Speed" 7/8
Tüff sensitiv AS
Acca Kappa Muschio Bianco EdC

Have a nice day!

Originally Posted by pfries

And this right here started my day off right,

I am so glad to hear it Carl.

As far as the time change thing, I have thought of moving to Arizona just because they do not mess with daylight savings time.

Pat

Thanks, it's a weight off my mind. I might join you in Arizona. How's the rainfall over there?

Originally Posted by Dvde

Agua de Colonia Concentrada Barberia AS

How do you like this after shave balm, Dvde? Would you recommend it?

Tuesday

Razor | Jernbolaget | Überlather | Faulding ‘Shave’/ Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad/Glycerine| After Shave | Pashana Bay Rum

Great shave with the Jernolaget, nice Überlather. Two passes. Not a great deal to say about the shave, but AFTER the shave on the way to work I took some photos. It was a great morning. One where you’re happy that you SEE things. Some people don’t SEE things…The photos ended up here.

Originally Posted by LegalBeagle

Carl,

Few things have picked my spirits up as much lately as the news you posted about Bailey. Much like Grant, you have been an incredible inspiration with the way you have handled all the adversity that life has thrown at you with his ordeal. We will continue to hold him close in our thoughts as his recovery continues to progress in amazing ways!

That's really nice of you to say, I really appreciate it. I got sick to the stomach the other day just thinking of all the shit we went through, his frail little body, the days spent in the hospital room making up songs about rainbows, the feeling that nothing in life mattered anymore, wanting to smash people who I judged as being shallow. Plastic tubes. But it all taught me a lot. It's hardened me somewhat, yet at the same time softened me. I hate life more yet love it more. I'm more empathetic yet less empathetic. I've got more complex (which is really saying something). I've grown. I'm not sure if you guys here really know how much you helped last year. If it weren't for the support I got from here, from this Shave Of The Day thread group, from this little band of brothers around the world with a strange obsession for taking photos of shaving gear, who come and go, well, I don't know what I would have done. I don't really have friends as such. I'm not the sort of guy to go to the pub with a mate, or go fishing or something. I've never had friends, ever. Never. I don't know why. Maybe I'm not a nice person. I'm rather harsh in real life, rather judgemental, rather offish. I've generally got a rather dim view of life on this planet and the humans that frequent it. I expect too much out of life and I overdo everything. But I found solace here. Bit weird, all that, really. But that's me. Having said that, I hate the expression "This is me, deal with it". I say "what if you is shit?" "What if you're a jerk?" "Who said you're any good?" I do self analyse. I look very very deep within to determine what the soul of the body called Carl is, and if it is what it should be as determined by all I know and feel to be true and right. As you can see, I overthink things tremendously. I have spent a great deal of my life thinking and I despise those who do not think. I dismiss those who just can not or will not think on higher things. So, when trouble comes my way, I overdo all the thinking around it and it effects me too much. I end up being like some sort of anguished eighteenth century poet. You guys here kept me from going off the rails entirely. I'm still slightly off the rails, of course, but that's just the way like it.

Sorry for all that, got on a roll... :-)

Proraso|G5|Mtn. Badger|CADE SS|Invicta|Proraso|CADE Balm

Have a Great Tuesday Gents!

Keep wearing your heart on your sleeve Carl, we wouldn't have you any other way brother!

Tuesday

Muhle R101 2011'
Gillette Super Thin
KMF Pomegranate Grapefruit Shave Cream
Frank Shaving Finest
Nivea Balm
Booster Oriental Spice Aftershave

Hot Shower, Merkur 37C, VDH Boar, C.O. Bigelow, Aqua Velva Classic, Acqua Di Gio, Firehouse Wacky Tacky

First round of golf today
To get my mind in order, today's shave bill
Hot towel prep
50 laps on the old Clauss strop
Wade & Butcher 8/8 For Barbers Use
VDH soap in my old flower pot bowl
Inconspicuous Boar Brush
Cold water rinse
Booster Iced Lime aftershave
2 pass BBS
Off to the Links Gents