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05 Oct
Safety razors are apparently a very collectible item, especially on eBay. I am lucky because Gillette was quite anal about date coding their safety razors, which has enabled me to find out quite a bit about my particular model. I apparently am in possession of the Gillette Safety Razor model X3 which was produced in […]
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05 Oct
I always hated to shave. I have sensitive skin and the hair on my neck and jaw tend to run in different directions. My wife on the other hand can’t stand me with any spikes at all which means I have to go over my face/jaw/neck in multiple directions in order to produce a smooth […]
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03 Oct
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book. Jonathan Strange […]
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18 May
reminded me of something which I was discussing with a few weeks ago. An uncle of mine seems to have the idea that a religious majority should squash the rights of the religious minorities, which as you can imagine irks me. There is a behavior in my area in which people who never attend church, […]
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09 May
Crazy lady called me at home at 10:30pm and left a long message about how I haven’t talked to her since Friday. What the hell does she think the call this morning in which she hung up on me counted as?. Let’s see a timeline: Friday she calls and says she is leaving town in […]
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09 May
A customer called me last friday complaining about their computer giving the BSOD (blue screen of death) and wanted it repaired, she related that she would be away from Friday thru early Monday and that she would call when she got home around noonish. Well the woman called like 9:20pm Monday night and left a […]