July 9th, 2025

• Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
• Razor: Gillette Atra - Handle
• Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (5)
• Lather: London Razors, Summer Break Soaps - Mountain Laurel - Soap
• Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Kelp & Sea Mineral - Lotion

Great Summer Break lather.

Hooray!

Yeah, both are fine. I switched away from KeePass because I was using Dropbox to take care of device sync, and it just didn’t feel right. Switching to Bitwarden was awesome for me because I self host it (Vaultwarden). It’s only accessible inside my home network, so mobile devices use a cached copy. If I need to add a new entry while away from home I can connect via VPN.

July 8th, 2025

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Blackland Era - Level 3
• Blade: Bolzano Superinox (German) (1)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford - Soap
• Post Shave: Old Spice - Hawkridge - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream

Fresh blade today. Didn’t feel a whole lot different than the P74 with 100 shaves on it, but it did feel slightly sharper. Less resistance on the chin, for example. Will I use the P74 again in the future? Maybe!

You can eference the outer edges for a satisfying before/after.

Use a password manager. Bitwarden has a specific “Card” entry type.

Nice improvement on mobile since the last time I played, but I got showed down by a lot of double typing.

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Thanks! I never pictured myself “pushing” a blade this far because blades are cheap and it’s not worth getting bad shaves just to claim you got 100 out of a blade… But here we are. This thing just kept going.

Oh no, good to know!

I think it’s because people are still uncomfortable answering “atheist” on questionnaires and polls. It’s easier to say “no religious affiliation”, and most people are probably agnostic instead of atheist anyway.

July 7th, 2025: Centennial

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Blackland Era - Level 3
• Blade: Personna P74 (100)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford - Soap
• Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
• Fragrance: Azzaro - Pour Homme Night Time - EdT

100 uses! And it still shaves like new, maybe even better than new. Tomorrow I’ll use a Bolzano with my Blackland Era which is one of my favorite combos. After using this blade for a while I expect it to feel different, but perform about the same.

I’ve been using this blade since January 17th, 2025, which was 171 days ago. That means I’ve had 71 non-DE shaves since then, as I shave every day. I’ve done 40 straight razor shaves, so that leaves 31 shaves with a cartridge (while traveling for work). I haven’t strayed from this DE blade or used any GEM razors in that time period.

I was giving a friend scent recommendations for Stirling yesterday and remembered about my Haverford sample. I absolutely love it and should get a tub.

Spreadsheets are great! You’d probably feel right at home with this since the “database” part is all spreadsheet style, but you can only track what I let you track since you’re locked into my design :-).

And for the record I have no idea what I’m talking about, but I pictured the stuff that guys in protective suits spray between wall studs, and wanted to make sure you knew that’s not what they used!

Just to clarify, he uses expanding foam which is much more manageable than spray foam.

July 6th, 2025: 99

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
• Blade: Personna P74 (99)
• Lather: London Razors, Summer Break Soaps - Mountain Laurel - Soap
• Post Shave: London Razors - Mountain Laurel - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream

The Summer Break soap base (and aftershave) are super good. 99 shaves on this blade means I’ll hit 100 with tomorrow’s shave. This blade is fantastic. I’ll switch to another blade after 100 just to see if I’m missing anything, but I really don’t think I am. I’ve been using other types of razors here and there (straight and cartridge), so I don’t think my expectations have drifted off course. Just good shaves all around.

I doubt they’d mark non-dangerous, buried by the lowest bidder, no paperwork fiber cables. But you never know.

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July 5th, 2025: Tub Kill

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
• Blade: Personna P74 (98)
• Lather: Abbate y La Mantia - Garibaldi - Soap
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
• Fragrance: Geoffrey Beene - Grey Flannel - EdC

Tub kill! (u/visceralwatch)

I had planned on killing this soap in concurrence with 100 uses on this blade, but boy did I get it wrong! I thought I had at least two shaves left in this tub, but it was only 1.