Aug. 19, 2022 - AA Day 19
If you've followed the saga of bows and clips left on the counter during several of my SOTD pics, well, today's is called "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
I broke the hiatus on shave related purchases today. It's the weekend and things probably won't be shipping until early next week at best, which is good with me. I can't change anything about my setup until September 1 anyway so honestly the longer it takes for anything new to arrive the less I suffer. Grabbed a Georgetown Pottery G20 Second at the advice of u/merikus - pics will show up in a future mail call, but I can't wait.
Shave was really good - one small nick just below my jawline somehow, but overall very solid.
The MMOC was smooth and easy. I'm confident my shaves are benefitting as far as bloodiness goes from the dull blade, but I do wonder how much it's impacting the post shave splash burn - I suspect a fair amount. A draggy blade that isn't cutting super efficiently has to cause some irritation that the splash causes to burn, right?
I overloaded Sonder today for funsies and my lather was thick and excellent - plenty for a full 3 pass shave. The Zenith here and here continues to have more and more bristles splay out when it's "dry" (as though it's ever dry). Soft and smoother latherer, though.
The scent of Sonder was great. Love it. Keep it coming. My wife says "it's fine" when I beg her for feedback, but, that's about as good as it gets with her.
Sonder thought of the day:
We have a family member with an anxiety disorder called "selective mutism" (SM) and yesterday the Selective Mutism Association (SMA) shared this quote: "If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, we would treat each other more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care." I'm not into the cheesiness of looking into people's hearts, but - swap that out for "If we could look into each others lives..." and you've got me. As I continue to consider sonder each day I found this quote to be particularly helpful and I'm working hard to consider the vivid lives and experiences of people I interact with on a daily basis - even though I know I can't do it perfectly and I will probably always tend toward snap judgments and trusting my initial read on people, I'm working on it. Having SM in the family has taught me so much about trying to understand things from others' persectives. I used to think this individual was just being difficult or defiant or at best a little shy and as we've learned about SM I've come to see that that's just not the case. It's not just anxiety that causes people to behave in certain ways that are hard to understand - we've all got challenges and experiences that shape so much of who we are and how we react to things - some of those experiences are of our own choosing, some things have been done to us, and still other things just are, to the fault and credit of no one. So - consider the challenges and treat people better - that's my goal.
Have a good night!
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