Thread: Sun - July 07th - Sat July 13th

Originally Posted by harrygr

Good morning Gentlemen, A special day for me, it is my 39th birthday!
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39. Oh to be just 39 again...

Happy Quokka Birthday...

I do realise this says 'you are birthday' (misplaced apostrophe) but I was pushed a bit to find another Australian animal to say happy birthday with. We've done 'Kangaroo birthday', 'Wallaby birthday' 'Emu birthday' even 'Platypus birthday' There's a limit. So I asked Joel, my son, "name an Australian animal" I said, looking up from the laptop and (strangely) he said "quokka". You'd be surprised at how few relevant pictures come up when one Googles 'quokka birthday' in Google images. Really.

Friday

Razor | J A Hellberg | Cream | Musgo Real Orange Amber | After Shave | Blue Stratos

A very nice shave this morning, if a little early. Lucy, the Dalmatian I share my bed with, said she wanted to get up at 0605 rather than 0630 even though she’d got up at 0130 as normal. There is no point at all in arguing with Lucy. You can tell her to SHUT the F up but you lie there knowing that in about thirty seconds she’ll do that little apologetic squeaking thing again and you won’t get ANY more sleep.

Don’t you hate waking up with only half and hour or so to go? If you wake at, say, one, it’s like “Bonus!" Another five and a half hours to go!” And you feel like giving yourself a high five. When you wake (for some unknown reason) at six, when you’re ‘supposed ‘to wake at six thirty, you feel depressed. “What’s the point” you think. “Another thirty minutes. Wow”. As you can probably tell, I like sleeping. Always have.

Anyway, the shave was very nice and close, ‘Blue Stratos’ is the cheapest of the cheap, but it’s not all that bad, really…

Prep - None
Soap - MWF
Brush - Simpsons QEII Jubilee Manchurian badger
Strop - Neil Miller 3 inch Cordovan leather/English linen
Razor - 11/16 Brookes and Crookes "near" wedge
Post - Alum block
AS - Aqua Velva Ice Blue

Cold water face lathered shave.

Bob

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Have a Great Friday Gents!

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Today was very interesting. I had to take my brother to the ER because he put a 22 cm laceration across his back. He passed out in the shower and cut it on something. He woke me up to ask for help as he turned around I about pooped my pants when I saw what happened. Anyway, a nice little shave to kick off my one thousandth post.

Don’t you hate waking up with only half and hour or so to go? If you wake at, say, one, it’s like “Bonus!" Another five and a half hours to go!” And you feel like giving yourself a high five. When you wake (for some unknown reason) at six, when you’re ‘supposed ‘to wake at six thirty, you feel depressed. “What’s the point” you think. “Another thirty minutes. Wow”. Taken from Carl's last post.

Nah its just like having kids, used to get woken at least an hour early every day, was really good cuddly daddy time, snuggle up on sofa with my daughter, cartoons and first breakfast.

Particularly when I am on night shift after about 4 hours sleep if I get woken up that's it, stuffed for the rest of the day. Whereas 30mins is just some bonus day. If I get that at home and no one else is up its shed time - horray for me.

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Today was supposed to be a good day. I had plans to have a picnic and go to the beach with my girlfriend and some of her family. It should get to about 29 degrees C today, which for Ireland is pretty damn high. Unfortunately for me though, my shoulder started aching yesterday and by last night I was in agony when moving my arm. It is still stupidly painful even when my shoulder is at rest. I decided it was best for me not to go because I'm a grouchy bastard when my shoulder flairs up and I didn't want to ruin their day.

I have hypermobility in most of my joints and my right shoulder seems to be the most affected. My right shoulder is fairly unstable (I can pretty much dislocate both of my shoulders, at will, without any pain and they go straight back in on their own about a second later) so my rotator cuff is overworked when I do pretty much anything. After a while my rotator cuff just gets too tired to continue working and then the shoulder pain happens.

I think it's finally time that I take these pains seriously and build up my shoulder strength.

Originally Posted by hitemfrank

...Today was supposed to be a good day. I had plans to have a picnic and go to the beach with my girlfriend and some of her family. It should get to about 29 degrees C today, which for Ireland is pretty damn high. Unfortunately for me though, my shoulder started aching yesterday and by last night I was in agony when moving my arm. It is still stupidly painful even when my shoulder is at rest. I decided it was best for me not to go because I'm a grouchy bastard when my shoulder flairs up and I didn't want to ruin their day.

I have hypermobility in most of my joints and my right shoulder seems to be the most affected. My right shoulder is fairly unstable (I can pretty much dislocate both of my shoulders, at will, without any pain and they go straight back in on their own about a second later) so my rotator cuff is overworked when I do pretty much anything. After a while my rotator cuff just gets too tired to continue working and then the shoulder pain happens.

I think it's finally time that I take these pains seriously and build up my shoulder strength.

Wow. How on earth would you build that up? I guess it'd have to be pretty light weights, otherwise the barbell would end up on the floor with you standing and you still gripping the bar!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Wow. How on earth would you build that up? I guess it'd have to be pretty light weights, otherwise the barbell would end up on the floor with you standing and you still gripping the bar!

I have found an accurate picture of how it will go.




Being serious however, I've been to a physio before about my shoulder so know what to do to strengthen my rotator cuff. I just plan to keep doing it instead of stopping after the pain is gone.

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