Aug. 1, 2022 - Primera oveja eléctrica
My initial plan for AA was to join the Order of Stag. But this August will be a very round birthday of my father. While my wife is a very tolerant woman, the same cannot be said about my mother. She has very clear ideas about what is proper behavior, and while I haven't consulted her on the issue, I don't think that she would consider smelling like a workshop proper behavior. Therefore, I dumped my plans and aspirations and chose to use Stirling's Electric Sheep for AA. But then – two weeks ago, my mother got COVID. Just as any concerned son, I had only one thing in mind. Hopes were high. "How are you mum? It must be pretty hard to lose your sense of smell." - "Well, it's like a bad cold, but I smell things just as before". ~~Dammit!~~ I was a great relief to learn that my mother got away lightly, and I will stay on track with Electric Sheep.
So why Electric Sheep? Here in France, citronella is marketed as a scent that keeps mosquitos away (but in a gentle, organic way): for instance, you can buy citronella-scented anti-mosquito candles nearly everywhere. Is this accurate? I don't know. But here my plan for finding out. Guess what contains plenty of citronella? ~~Arko~~ Electric Sheep! Since I will spend nearly 3 weeks in one of the worst mosquito-places of Europe, this provides us with the ideal opportunity to settle once and for all whether mosquitos are repulsed by citronella or not. I also got the aftershave, since the solution might involve MOAR CITRONELLA. I hired my son as my control group, who will be joined by my wife and my daughter next week.
Furthermore, I will be using my Kai Captain AC blade with already 19 shaves on it – and there will be no backup until the 21st of August. So I register for Enhanced Ultra Nightmare Mode.
Moving along now to the shave. I was worried about the first shave with the Zenith, since breaking in the SOC was one of the more painful experiences in my shaving life, but I was wrong. While the Zenith RawHoggin splays for the moment as gracefully as me doing splits, I did not get the impression of getting my face flayed. And although the brush still has a good way to go, that's not too bad! Otherwise, I lost about 5 bristles, and debated with myself whether a longer handle would have been better (probably it would have). This is what the brush looks like after one use.
As for Electric Sheep: it is what it is. I knew the soap, but the aftershave is new. It is less strong in scent than what I had anticipated, and it started to burn after 20 seconds on the skin. So far (20 minutes after the shave, no mosquito has tried to approach me, and my family is away, but I will report tomorrow on that.
I had not used the Kai shavette for a while. It was not the smoothest or the closest shave, and I managed to give me a big weaper on the chin on the 3rd pass. But all in all, my face feels ok. I shaved on Midday today in order to give the brush enough time to shave for tomorrow's travel – then I will see you in the evening.
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