April 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Thanks Perry! You don't even notice the drying when you follow up the shave with a little Stirling PSB!

 

I'll keep that in mind. I've got the Glacial Unscented balm and it's incredible. Been noticing that Jim @Norcalnewb has been using the Stirling balm as well.

 

It is the one thing I use every day, whether I shave or not. After every shower, I put on some.

 

I started with this same thought. Then I realized that each sample is about 1/4 of a tub. Started buying samples almost exclusively and putting them in tin tubs, so now I have tons of Stirling flavors that'll keep me busy for years. Good stuff!

While I would agree with that as a rule, I've never encountered anyone who claimed to get a good shave with a Merkur blade.

I haven't used the handle type, but I have a razorock plissoft knot, and really enjoy it. Very, very soft and whips up lather easily.

What about those of us with many many brushes?

Maybe we should start with some C.S. Lewis "The Screwtape Letters"?

 

Thanks, I think, Jason. But all jokes aside, if you ever get the 30DC book club off the ground, I am voting firmly in favour of L'Amour's Sackett's Land. I think I have all of his books, including the "slim volume of poetry" that every writer seems to perpetrate at least once in his or her career.

 

I don't use it after every shower, as you do Jim, but I do use one of the Stirling balms ('regular' menthol or Glacial, or even Gentleman or Spice) after most showers when I am not shaving afterwards. Excellent products.

 

I'm afraid I am one of those firearm dilettantes you see at the range with piles of guns and only an average shot with any of them. But then, I've always known I was one and never pretended to be anything else. It comes from first starting to acquire firearms as an adult out of historical military curiosity and only then learning to shoot mostly older guns for the same reasons. I've never hunted anything bigger than gophers, and self-defence is not considered a socially acceptable (or legal) reason to own a firearm in Canada -- to the point that even if you own firearms for other reasons, the so-called "safe storage" regulations ensure that your firearms and ammunition will be so securely locked up with multiply redundant locking systems that you won't be able to access them in an emergency anyway. So things like IPSC and "three gun" are strictly for sporting purposes up here and not as serious training. On the other hand, I do have one sword that I know well enough to be able to tell the reach of the blade in the dark, and that's what I would grab if someone crashed through my door...

I agree about the other part -- having a sense of balance. Aristotle prescribed "Everything in moderation" two millennia ago and it's still good advice.

Of course, for Chris, it was Socrates who proclaimed that "the unexamined life is not worth living". Mind you, he was eventually forced to commit judicial suicide by the authorities when his "examination of life" became politically awkward... Something our budding resident philosopher may want to keep in mind. (Another takeaway from Socrates is that hemlock poisoning is a rotten way to die, and in similar circumstances, one should always hold out for cyanide instead...)

 

Dang! I think I left my copies of the whole Sackett series in the drawer of my new Shaving Stand...I'll have to go look for them, I think I was using a tuft of Sasquatch hair as a bookmark as well.

 

The same drawer your Bottom Dial Gillette was in?

 

John! Now Socrates? Aristotle? Stop it!... you are making the rest of us look bad. If you bring up Plato's The Republic and the whole shadow on the wall allusion next I may have to start reading more just to be able to catch up. Give me two day's notice when you get to Atlas Shrugged so I can go back and read the last few pages again...

 

The Ever-Ready Brush looks great Andrew.

 

Next to his Darwin Deluxe and BBS-1

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Thanks Clint!

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How did you know!!!
Also in that drawer is my real footage of the Patterson Bigfoot Video, a picture of the contents of the briefcase from Ronin (I also had a photo of the one from Pulp Fiction but others on here spilled the beans on that one yesterday), the last known whereabouts and identity of DB Cooper as of 2012, and a rare, pirated live recording of Bryan Adams doing a 11 minute extended acoustic version of Everything I do, I do it for you. I'm pretty sure @Bama Samurai stole that last one on his last visit, though.

 

All I can tell you is that I will not read it in a boat. I will not read it with a goat. I will not read it here or there. I will not read it anywhere.

 

My father started me with firearms (rifles & pistols) at a early age. By the age of 13 I was reloading ammo so that I could practice more often. Between High School and College I was in the US Army with a MOS of 11B which is straight leg infantry. So firearms have always been a part of my DNA so to speak. Until I experience some medical issues in 2015, I fired an avg of 1,000 rounds a month at the range and practiced dry firing, drawing etc an hour a day. In the past, I always tried to attend at least 1 or 2 classes a year to keep up with current doctrine and skills. Both my daughters are very good with pistols with Maya being the much better of the two. That is not really surprising given the amount of effort she put into learning.

I think the key with any physical skill, shooting, shaving or riding a motorcycle, is to learn the correct technique and then practice enough to get it set in your muscle memory. From there you can expand the skill with new hardware or enhanced techniques which are just layers on the base skill.

 

Well put, Clint! My father is a firearms enthusiast with leanings to older guns, mostly reproductions. He is a long time member of the North-South Skirmish Association (NSSA) which requires teams that assume names from Civil War companies, Union and Confederate. It's not reenacting; it's target shooting as a team and the team's identity (and their dress) is directly related to a unit from the Civil War. It sounds silly, but these guys are very serious and are superb marksmen.

Anyway, I grew up with him and all his gear. My father makes his own bullets by melting lead and passing them through a mold. He would measure different powder amounts and record everything in a little notebook. His real job was a mechanical engineer, so all the numbers and statistics fit naturally.

I only own a pistol at the moment and haven't shot it in quite some time, but would like to reintroduce myself to it. When learning as a kid I was required to do the same approach and be very consistent regardless of what gun we were shooting. I tremendous respect was paid to the art of shooting, and the proper technique was drilled into me. So I agree with your statement that we should learn the technique and practice it endlessly.

 

Yes, Jason, I agree! @Screwtape drastically raised the ante this morning with all of this philosophical rhetoric. I feel pretty dumb at the moment.

 

I admire people like your father that can reload with with accuracy as their primary goal. My goal was to get a reload that shoots to the same point of aim as my carry ammo while being accurate enough for training. I have two big Dillon progressive reloading machines which allow me to reload about 25o rounds an hour without pushing myself.

 

Good suggestion, will try that tonight.


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