July 3rd, 2025
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (4)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Ozark Mountain - Soap
- Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
Got a great lather.
Have a good trip!
July 2nd, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
- Blade: Personna P74 (96)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Ozark Mountain - Soap
- Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman Musk - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
- Fragrance: Brut - EdT
Clubman Musk goes surprisingly well with Ozark Mountain, and of course Brut is pretty musky itself so all around really nice. Compared to Atriox from GLHF Workshop, Brut is less potent, less fancy, and has less longevity.
July 1st, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
- Blade: Personna P74 (95)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Ozark Mountain - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
- Fragrance: GLHF Workshop - Atriox - EdP
Atriox is my most prized possession. It's a Brut dupe by @[email protected]
What's Netflix? That thing I cancelled years ago?
Grocery delivery service sounds expensive... but I don't know where you live.
I was going to recommend never keeping a balance in Venmo or the like, but understand sometimes waiting a few days for it to transfer to your bank can make things difficult.
It's on YouTube as well.
Not trying to lay blame, but doesn't Venmo ask where you want the money to come from every time you send money? They don't know your bank balance...
Overdraft fees are evil. Some banks will even clear transactions to result in the most overdrafts without regard to which order the transactions took place. For example if there are two transactions, one for $100 and one for $5, and account balance of $50, they'll purposely clear the $100 transaction first so both transactions trigger overdraft fees. They could clear the $5 first so only the $100 transaction triggers a fee, but nope.
Also, if this is your first overdraft you might have luck calling the bank and asking for forgiveness. I did that once in college and they refunded the overdraft fees.
June 30th, 2025: My favorites
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
- Blade: Personna P74 (94)
- Lather: Noble Otter - Batters Up - Soap
- Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Gratiot League Square - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Lavanille - EdP
Theme justification: I bought this tub of soap on a trip to Merz Apothecary with u/VisceralWatch, and it has become my favorite scent! Weird, right? Everybody seems to hate Batters Up. VW handed me the tub and said "smell this", so I did. I was initially surprised by what was happening in my nostrils, and agreed "yeah, I can see why people don't like it". Then I smelled some other stuff, returning to Batters Up to give it another try. It didn't put me off, it was just different. I smelled it a couple more times and decided "you know what, I like it". I'm so glad I bought it. Noble Otter is, of course, great soap, and the scent represents what I love about artisan shaving -- uniqueness, variety, exploring, being bold, trying different things, telling a story, etc. That type of thing isn't possible outside of the artisan world, because a scent like Batters Up wouldn't be approved by the CEO's and other Executives involved in the process.
Everything else I used could be considered my favorite, too. The CFG Legacy razor, the Wolf Whiskers handle with my favorite synthetic knot, my favorite aftershave formula (and scent), and my favorite soap-scent-turned-frag, Lavanille. Fantastic all around!
Oh yeah, and the blade. This Personna P74 is nearing marathon territory, often defined as 100+ shaves. 100 isn't a goal, but at this point I can't not do it. After 100 I'll set it aside and try another DE blade for science. If I like the fresh blade better, I'll stop using the P74. Otherwise, I'll keep going with the P74. I haven't used any other DE blades since starting with this blade, but I've used cartridge's and straight razors. Here's my first shave with this blade, which was on January 17th of this year https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/1824382/2944765.
Thanks for sharing.
With "Beginners Guide to Linux" in the title, I don't think the video is suitable for anyone who hasn't already tried Linux.
There's not even a mention of what a "distro" is, and if I had never used Linux before and watched this video, I'd run away as fast as I could. It's way too complex, and mentions way too many things that I've probably never heard of before.
That being said, I don't know who his demographic is. I'm always glad to see some effort into helping people discover Linux, but I fear this might have the opposite effect.
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I stepped in dog poop again, which prompted me to fashion a shorter hose.
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Not long ago I won a beautiful brush handle from Peter at Wolf Whiskers in a charity raffle. It came with a great synthetic knot, but it was lofted too short for me. I decided to remove it so I can put something else in.
I emailed Peter and he confirmed that all of his brushes are assembled with epoxy. I didn't want to risk steaming the handle, but the Discord chat convinced me to try a 5 minute steam, which I did... 5 minutes isn't long, and it didn't work.
Not wanting to further risk a total failure (the handle is in 2 pieces, plus it has a coin in the bottom), I went back to plan A - mechanical destruction.
Picture 1: I used a box cutter with a fresh blade to slice most of the hair off
Picture 2: I used a combination of a small cutoff wheel and a grinder bit on a Dremel tool and started slowly chipping away at things.
Picture 3: This bit worked the absolute best. It's small, so it took a while. It also created TONS of dust, so I had to do this outside.
Picture 4: This is pretty much the end result. It was very difficult to know when to stop. The end of the knot/epoxy and beginning of "handle" was never really obvious. In the end, the hole was 15.5mm deep, and 26.5mm wide.
I did mess it up in a few spots. The keyless chuck on the dremel has some knurling which made contact with the ferule a few times, despite me trying to be careful. I was able to buff them a little bit and they're only noticeable if you're looking closely at it.
I still haven't decided which knot to put in it, but it's a beautiful handle!
Excellent travel razor choice!