PIF: How Long to 3017 MdC?

[martym]

Nope. June 2nd, 2020. Darktrader is the 20th. The 2nd is my birthday!

Boy oh boy
Getting old is tuff!!!

 

[martym]

Luecke2326 you are done

A. Feitar you are still in this
bluesman 7 you are up

April 15, 2019 Clay S
May 4, 2019 DoctorShavegood
May 30, 2019 Hunter1063
June 19, 2019 Pippirull
June 25, 2019 Esox
July 19, 2019 barko78
August 15, 2019 Ruva
September 23, 2019 Heron
September 30, 2019 DBlitz
October 12, 2019 MilkCrate
October 31, 2019 rockviper
November 1, 2019 jldallas
November 16, 2019 Chumango
November 17, 2019 WireBrushFace
November 28, 2019 catchacoolbreeze
December 9, 2019 MM879
December 14, 2019 Nick Weepers
December 15, 2019 shaveSymptomatic
December 18, 2019 mousecop
December 21, 2019 KeenDogg
December 23, 2019 Luecke2326

December 31, 2019 A. Feitar
January 10, 2020 bluesman 7
January 15,2020 Life2short1971
January 18, 2020 Blade4vor
January 19, 2020 sealer
February 2, 2020 musicman1951
February 4, 2020 pbrmhl
February 16, 2020 CDEMIKE
February 22, 2020 MarsEnglish
February 23, 2020 bayergolf
March 1st, 2020 Bad Badger
March 15, 2020 niketin
March 16, 2020 JamesBlades
March 21, 2020 mata_66
April 8, 2020 kilo fox
April 18, 2020 Noodles
April 29, 2020 Dryphter
April 20, 2020 Boghopper
May 5, 2020 TacticalPanda
May 11, 2020 Scoutk21
May 20, 2020 Sabin
May 29, 2020 boilerphan
June 2, 2020 FarmerTan
June 5, 2020 dezmil
June 9, 2020 delislave
June 17, 2020 bobmsp
June 19, 2020 A. Feitar
June 20, 2020 Darktrader
June 26, 2020 emwolf
July 2, 2020 Rico Suave
July 4, 2020 ShavingPanda (my wedding anniversary)
July 26, 2020 Head_shaver (another wedding anniversary)
July 31, 2020 1959tony (my son’s birthday)
August 4, 2020 MrChewbacca
August 13, 2020 Ribeye
August 23, 2020 Steve P
September 4, 2020 gwsmallwood (my daughter's birthday)
September 21, 2020 Chan Eil Whiskers (our anniversary)
September 22, 2020 Ramathorn
September 26, 2020 Zácek
September 28, 2020 ED3054
September 29, 2020 dfoulk
October 22, 2020 jmudrick
October 24, 2020 dmshaver
November 7, 2020 BigJ
November 9, 2020 jdburger
November 20, 2020 fireman Sean
January 1, 2021 Rusty Blade
January 24, 2021 JTshaves
February 19, 2021 Blaidth
May 1, 2021 Tiny
May 20, 2021 TreadwayJohnA
May 29, 2021 Lancre (Our 50th anniversary)
June 4, 2021 mio_cuggino
December 11, 2021 ShavePastor
December 12, 2021 Neffarious

 

[Blaidth]

Any update on how far you are?
How about a pic of the threads....?

 

[mio_cuggino]

Thanks. I have an idea for a watercolor in my head. Need to put it on the paper.

If you were to make this into a thread, I would subscribe.

I also wanted to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
You're going to rock the heck out of it!

 

[FarmerTan]

If you were to make this into a thread, I would subscribe.

I also wanted to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
You're going to rock the heck out of it!

Thank you very much for the encouragement, the well wishes, and the Arko!

Folks can blame you for my addiction! I'm down to 1 stick.... Panic has not yet set in!

I'm actually thinking of sketching a shave set up, maybe from a photo, then sketching it and filling it in with watercolor.

I need to stop thinking and start doing! But I doubt pics of my progress would make for an interesting thread my friend.....no one wants to watch paint dry!

Sometimes I crack myself up, lol.

 

[martym]

I woke up this morning at 0400 after a 16 hour work day yesterday. I managed to get a WAS without cutting myself and took a very long and very hot shower to wake up.
The jar of MdC is getting bigger or the amount in it is becoming less. No photos yet. Maybe soon.

 

[rockviper]

Happy New Year. Marty!


Did the Wee Scott turn into a Chubby 3?
That would help expedite things.

 

[ShavingPanda]

Happy new year Marty. Based on my guess... only 7 months of MdC left for you

 

[martym]

Happy New Year’s to y’all!!
I received my PHD 34 years ago from the school of hard knocks and have kept those hard earned skills well honed.
Unfortunately that degree has nothing to do with soap and so in scientifically I can only say that it seems to me that the middle of the soap is not nearly as dry as the soap at the top.
Maybe that’s why it seems to be getting used up faster.
I do know for a fact however that I will not lose sleep thinking/worrying/puzzling out this wonderment.
In fact this is as much thought as it gets from me.

 

[Esox]

Happy New Year!

I went to the same school Marty! lol

 

[martym]

Those were the hardest courses I ever attended and the continuing education classes don’t get any easier!!

 

[FarmerTan]

Those were the hardest courses I ever attended and the continuing education classes don’t get any easier!!

Amen to that!

 

[martym]

All these young kids at work get to talking about their college degrees and advanced degrees and it’s hilarious to me.
Some will be my bosses before I retire and some won’t make the cut.
They inevitably ask if I have a degree and I always tell them I have a PHD. They are in awe. Hilarious.
I’ll leave them hanging but will eventually tell them that my PHD is from the school of hard knocks (but then I must explain that) or that I have a Purely High School Diploma (PHD).

 

[FarmerTan]

All these young kids at work get to talking about their college degrees and advanced degrees and it’s hilarious to me.
Some will be my bosses before I retire and some won’t make the cut.
They inevitably ask if I have a degree and I always tell them I have a PHD. They are in awe. Hilarious.
I’ll leave them hanging but will eventually tell them that my PHD is from the school of hard knocks (but then I must explain that) or that I have a Purely High School Diploma (PHD).

As my dad used to say:

There ain't nothing worse than a college educated idiot!

 

[rockviper]

Somebody called?

 

[FarmerTan]

Somebody called?

I think he may have been referring to me!

 

[martym]

Y’all are funny!!
I do believe education is extremely important to succeed in life.
But ya gotta have some common sense to compliment it!!

 

[FarmerTan]

Y’all are funny!!
I do believe education is extremely important to succeed in life.
But ya gotta have some common sense to compliment it!!

I didn't go to kollege till I felt called to be a nurse at 39. Didn't get out til I was 47.

I think education is EVERYTHING. But it takes many forms.

My dad was one of, if not the best, self educated people I ever knew, and quit skool after 7th grade. All of it in one room skool houses.

I had a report to do on the libraries of Alexandria once. He made me read it to him. He scoffed at it, the ole fart! Started rattling off the top of his head all the stuff I should have put in the report. I went back to my research. HE WAS AS SMART AS THE BOOKS! I asked him how he knew so much. He said that from the time he was 5 until he was 13 he heard the lesson of all the kids worth of 12 grades! All those kids learned all the time! And he always said one ear was longer, as that was the ear the teacher always grabbed to make him behave!

I guess she wasn't all that concerned over his self esteem!

I miss him every stinkin' day. So all you folks blessed enough to still have a dad: freak him out, and flat out kiss him on the cheek as you hug him.

Now y'all got me tearing up. There goes my macho image you losers!

 

[martym]

My parents have GED’s and got those while serving in the Army. My brother and I graduated from High School. He’s retired Army. I have 33 years in Law Enforcement. His oldest is finishing a PHD. My oldest went to boarding school in New Hampshire and then NYU and is in graduate school. Not too bad for a family that started with only a one holer outhouse.
I kiss my parents every single time I see them and talk with them pretty much every single day of the year. They are 82 and 80.

 

[Esox]

Those were the hardest courses I ever attended and the continuing education classes don’t get any easier!!

It might be easier not to think of them as "Classes" but as "Character Building Exercises", or so I heard lol.

Its sure a different world. At the General Dynamics plant here in town you need to have a University degree just to get a spot on the assembly line.

I understood when I was very young that with age comes wisdom. I've always listened to those older than myself intently. They knew more than I did because they'd been there, done that and lived through it.

I wish I had talked to some a whole lot more than I did. My fathers brother was over last month, he's 75 now and he asked about a friend of my fathers we hunted with years ago. I hadnt talked to him for 20 years or more so I looked online and found he had died in 2015. I knew he served in the Korean War but I had only heard him mention the war once and only very briefly about his Bren gun because the rifle I was carrying at the time had a bipod.

It also said in his obituary that he was in Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry and that he served in the battle of Kapyong. He was a war hero and very few even knew. My father knew him before the war and if he knew, he never said anything.

I really wish I had talked to him more. Do like Dave @FarmerTan says and spend some time with those older than yourself. You might be surprised just how much you could learn.