I will give diaring a try?

[losing]

Alright, i am still wide awake after doing a 3rd workout just before sleepy time. It has been a good day for me overall. I think i am going to see what i could find on the internets for a half blade shavette. A king of local to us flea market i was told earlier today didn't have any shavettes or traditional shaving gear. My nephew told me. He knows what i'm looking for, so i believe him on what he told me. There are 2 vendors there that might get gear in but who knows when anything will get to them to buy or trade for.

And tomorrow i will do another shave it will be a 1 pass direction ATG. I will have some fur but very light so probably a few minute shave.

Good Night B&B Members

 

[Guido75]

Wow! That made 4 pages of interesting reading material. Thank you for sharing your inner musings with us and I am glad you seem to be in a better place than you were before. Respect for your stamina and tenacity to get through this hardship.

Great shave kit as well!!

Cheers,

Guido

 

[losing]

Wow! That made 4 pages of interesting reading material. Thank you for sharing your inner musings with us and I am glad you seem to be in a better place than you were before. Respect for your stamina and tenacity to get through this hardship.

Great shave kit as well!!

Cheers,

Guido

Thank you

 

[losing]

I had to make a post this cold and early A.M. I have really seemed to be "paying attention" to all threads and posts this morning. And as the my answer goes with my people tell me it's free, "if i got paid more i could afford it". But i just checked, my disability leech payment hasn't gotten an increase nor did my scratchoff lottery win become an actual win but it's still just a money back thing....

But WOW... between vintage blade addictions and snow removal stuff my brain seems to be at another level i an not sure i've ever hsd. And i'm wanting to try a fancier or more serious Shave Gear post later after my quick shave. But maybe my embarrassment(sp?) or today's brain level will realize i can only do or say what i know or can do before i do those posts.

But i hope B&Bers know i don't mind and ask for comments, jokes and whatever at me or around me, i just like to hear it not think about it.... lol....

At 2:30 i attempted my workout but i gave up right away. I could barely roll to my side to try to get off her bed. A slight soreness (kind of a good feeling) because i did 3 workouts and wood pellet bag moving yesterday and my laziness came back or was just waiting behind my back ready to jump in. Now i will force myself up to pick up possibly 100+ drugs that i somehow pushed or pulled off this bed's backboard thing (see what i mean i can't recall what it's called).

Then i will be in and out of B&B all day/evening today. I want to see what the new to me forum sections i get to explore through now, are. (This doesn't sound right to me.

Ok drugs here i come to pick you all up...

Have a great day/evening today B&Bers and if you have or want to type or tap something to me or at me, have at it i will see it at some point today. (Again did that make any sense to any of yous?)

Goodbye...

 

[losing]

Today's shave was an easy and quick one. No picture, sorry. I did only an ATG pass that needed a little XTG on my chin and neck. The 8th(?) january GRUME shave and a 10/10 for the shave gear.
1959 Gillette Fatboy loaded with a Rapira Blade i believe the first edge has 5 shaves and is still slicing my beard hairs well.
I put the Vitos piece in my Captain's Choice and it whipped up good by my Yaqi.
Omega and Stirling finished up this shave...

Today is a bad day for my dizziness and eye twitching. I managed to complete all my chores and did 2 workouts. I figured out the mistake i made with something. But nothing was destroyed or broken. And i learned another thing about 3d printing.

The drugs that are in a weekly seperator thing that fell off the backboard somehow, only 1 pill was lost out of 135 that fell out of the seperator. Ok the pill isn't lost i just couldn't get to it. It will stay on the floor on it's new spot till i get a broom to sweep it out. My problems today make sweeping for it impossible today.

Today also has been a bit of a down day for me. I have been tired and flipping through the internet and 2 forums never settling (?) on staying in one or the other. And i hope my lazyness (?) today is gone tomorrow.

I did have some re-remembering happen today. I am like fountain pens. And a thread started in the Nib forum in B&B brought a close to complete memories back into my brain. But now i have another sort of hobby/lifestyle reintroduction i want to happen soon... hahaha... stupid fountain pens and their rabbit holes...

And a lot of this post had bad mis-spellings and word placements because of my hands not cooperating hardly at all today...

Have a good rest of today errbody and have some great shaves tonight and tomorrow...

 

[thombrogan]

Today is a bad day for my dizziness and eye twitching.

Very sorry to read about the dizziness, but today has been a stellar eye-twitching day for me. inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther franchise can eat his heart out, I tell you!

 

[losing]

Very sorry to read about the dizziness, but today has been a stellar eye-twitching day for me. inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther franchise can eat his heart out, I tell you!

Thank you...

I know nothing about the Pink Panther franchise. Maybe a cartoon and movies?

 

[thombrogan]

Movies from 1963-1978

 

[losing]

Movies from 1963-1978

Ok. I knew it was something and none of my people were interested in those films and/or never talked about them so i never even knew what they were. Just some cartooney character in commercials for cereal or something maybe?

I am a 73 hatchling so those movies were only somewhat during my time... hahaha...

 

[thombrogan]

Same. My Pop was a fan and Inspector Dreyfus’ eventual nervous tic was my highlight

 

[losing]

This late night/early morning has me on B&B and making me feel and seem not smart enough or quick enough or whatever to be even dipping my feet into the journals section or any section right now.

Things like weepers, shaving wet gear and just B&Bers intelligence about different things has me wondering what is going on with me? I just had to re-tap out that last sentence because all the words i mis-spelled or my fingers couldn't tap the words right... lol...

I also need to rest, i have an early A.M. blood draw i need to get the Pony to get me to. Maybe this note i just tapped to myself will remind me to ask if there are any drugs or anything they could inject into me so i can re-remember things better like what is blood draw?.... lol...

 

[BigAlVista]

I stumbled into this section of B&B and started some reading of members diaries or journalies. And i know now i have a lot of reading to do now. But my journaling(?) will be simple and make turns i won't know why or how. So if anyone goes past this starting a journal post i hope i don't tap anything too boring. Here i go...

SHAVING:

I use a 1959 Gillette Fatboy made in the 4th quarter. From what i was told how to find this info out on/through the B&B forums by some members a couple of months ago. Also i am unsure of where or how i got this razor. It could have been a PIF or a purchse in the BST section of B&B. I think this info i will find out when i go through my closed out purerockfury account.

I use different samples from shave lather stuff to blades to aftershave stuff. That i enjoy doing a lot. But Stirling Soap Co. is my main go to company for everything soft/liquid(?) based shave and shower gear. And samples i could and can usually afford.

I also had/have an envelope shark related things like 1 blade and a shark sticker or a stamp is in. A Shark Week thing that was based through B&B a few years ago.

I have a Captain's Choice Copper Shave Bowl in Aquamarine. I think this purchase happened after an accident happened to a ceramic bowl i had. Another thing i want to look up and find out what, how and why i got/had that ceramic bowl.

Yaqi 24mm synthetic brush, i'm forgetting the name of right now. Is another purchase i made about 3 years ago or so. Possibly because another brush i had lost hairs or broke. Another thing researching that other account might help me remember.

My shaving began when i was 17/18 and senior year of vocational high school. An electric razor, i have no memory of the brand or the model. The reason i got it my facial fur grew in patches and spots across and under my face so to me that fur had to go away.

I became homeless when i was 23 for 8 months, mostly my choice/decision which i will tap about in another journal post i make. During that time a barber i met by going to his shop a few times to see if he needed help cleaning up the shop and/or shoveling snow in front of his shop in Central/East New Jersey (more of that info in future posts). One heavy snow day i saw a shovel was left out by another store in the same mini-mall complex the barber's shop was in. I used that shovel to clear the snow off the walkways of the small mini-mall complex.

A few days later i was at his shop again asking if he wanted or needed help cleaning up. This time he stopped what he was doing (cutting a man's head hair) and asked me some questions. "Why was i always coming in to help cleanup" and "was i the one who shoveled the mall's walkways and put the shovel back?". Yes was my answer to the second question. "Why are you by the door? come in it's warmer inside and we won't need to talk loudly". I said ok, took a few steps in and started to tell them i was homeless trying to earn some money and i was by the door to not let much of my B.O. be smelled by them too much.

He pointed to another of his customers chairs to sit for their hair cutting (and my mind can't remember those chair's name). Which i sat down on and watched him cut the other man's hair. They were talking to each other about what, idk? it was whispering mostly. The shaving/cutting was done. The man shook the older barber's hand, walked over to me handed me $40 (a decent amount of money in the late 1990s) i got a thank you and a handshake and the man left.

I sat there looking at the money in my hand wodering why the man gave it to me. The barber said "stop staring at your payment, you did a good job for me and my son (the man whose hair he was shaving) we were wondering who had done the shoveling of the walkways the snow plowers didn't show up till later that day." Bill (the barber's name) then said "if i could come to his shop every weekend to clean up he will pay me at the end of sunday's hours the shop was opened for. Throughout the 6 months or so of cleaning Bill's shop i learned a lot about shaving and how to use a straight razor. And my personal obsession about being a clean shaven man began.

This is probably a long read, thank you for reading it...

Just srarted reading your Journal. Welcome!

 

[Blade_Runner37C]

Interesting. I haven't kept a diary since I was a 13 year old girl.....

just messing with you guys. lol

 

[BigAlVista]

We enjoy your posts. Do not worry about that.

Absolutely!

 

[losing]

I can barely make a decision on what like thing to use and i just do a quick tap blue circle thumb's up thing.

@Blade_Runner37C i could barely write my name at that age... lol...

@BigAlVista i want to say sorry to you and everyone else. I can see in the quote you did i just ramble on in them....

I will do my best today to just get on B&B and blue circle thumb's up B&Bers gear ratings or still in posts. And avoid journals and journaling (or whatever itx̌s called... hahaha...)

 

[BigAlVista]

So no more sleep came to me. But i think something has possibly changed in my head, around my head or in my brain. I just got back from relieving myself, which i discovered one of my kidneys has been creative and started to make a "stone" but my liquid and/or my body doesn't want that "stone" to get too big and be left in my body so the tiny creation is being ejected maybe another relief or 2 of myself should get it out. Probably a 3 or 4 mm one. Large enough for me to feel but not large enough to cause me pain. They need to get to 5-10 mm for pain to happen.

Oh yeah... the pressure or whatever i have been feeling with or in my head has calmed down a lot. I practically skipped to the bathroom with no concerns about stumbling down the stairs and the dizziness and/or eye twitching thing is still in me but not as bad as the past few days. Which is making me think the extreme cold weather is moving away or moved away.

In 45 minutes i will go downstairs get some cinnamon toast crunch cereal eat it up. Go get more pellet bags to put into their carhole and do the other workout things i want to do. Dumbell curling(?) and jumping jacks.

So until then if anybody has anything they want to ask about or talk about post away... i will just be in other forum sections looking around and maybe interact with members...

Have a wonderful day you all i will be having one.

Kidney stones suck. I never knew what a level 10 pain was until my first stone. Unfortunately, I get one every five years, give or take. Had to have them lasered out on three ocassions. Yuck!

 

[BigAlVista]

I will admit, cinnamon toast crunch is often what I have for supper if we're too tired to cook or the leftovers don't look appetizing. I love the stuff.

Lol

Movies from 1963-1978

Lots of fun. Silly, cringeworthy humor!

 

[BigAlVista]

I can barely make a decision on what like thing to use and i just do a quick tap blue circle thumb's up thing.

@Blade_Runner37C i could barely write my name at that age... lol...

@BigAlVista i want to say sorry to you and everyone else. I can see in the quote you did i just ramble on in them....

I will do my best today to just get on B&B and blue circle thumb's up B&Bers gear ratings or still in posts. And avoid journals and journaling (or whatever itx̌s called... hahaha...)

For me, rambling in my Journal is the best part. At the end of the day, we are all here because something about this forum gives us pleasure. If rambling in the journal floats your boat, I say "go for it".

Furthermore, I think your life story is truly interesting. I look forward to hearing more about you and how you came to be at where you are today.

Your story telling style is simple, direct, and efficient. Most of what you write leaves us B&Bers with more questions than answers. I am confident that the reason many of us have not asked you probing questions is out of respect for your privacy, not disinterest. If and when you are ready to speak, we are interested in hearing more.

With your journal, I feel like I'm reading a book where the time line starts today but loops back in time, weaving your current reality with your past. If you are willing to share the story of how you became homeless, your addiction, the things you did to survive, your current health condition and ultimately how you went from living on the street to collecting vintage shave gear and fountain pens, I, for one, would like to read it.

Heart-warming and heart-rending all at one.

 

[losing]

Kidney stones suck. I never knew what a level 10 pain was until my first stone. Unfortunately, I get one every five years, give or take. Had to have them lasered out on three ocassions. Yuck!

Yes, my 1st stone i was 23 maybe, it was about a 6mm one. And i thought a new to me animal or creature laid it's child in me and it's child was clawing it's way out. It was 3 a.m. and i started to walk to a hospital.

My body created stones and ejected them out; about 3 times a year. I got the lipsotripsy(sp?) thing 1 time, 10 years ago. I had health insurance and my cost wouldn't put my debt any deeper than it was. It was a sort of quick thing but back then i tolerated pain better and that surgery mattered little to me. So just passing these stones is what i will ever do or have done.

1 bit of advice.... water, ice tea and cranberry juice and drinking lots of any of them can help your body get stones out. But you will need a bathroom or something nearby, you probably know why...

 

[BigAlVista]

Yes, my 1st stone i was 23 maybe, it was about a 6mm one. And i thought a new to me animal or creature laid it's child in me and it's child was clawing it's way out. It was 3 a.m. and i started to walk to a hospital.

My body created stones and ejected them out; about 3 times a year. I got the lipsotripsy(sp?) thing 1 time, 10 years ago. I had health insurance and my cost wouldn't put my debt any deeper than it was. It was a sort of quick thing but back then i tolerated pain better and that surgery mattered little to me. So just passing these stones is what i will ever do or have done.

1 bit of advice.... water, ice tea and cranberry juice and drinking lots of any of them can help your body get stones out. But you will need a bathroom or something nearby, you probably know why...

Yep.