UPDATE: It’s actually the Semogue 1305.
As I noted in yesterday’s SOTD post, I’ve been making lather with my new Semogue 1305 with every shave, along with whatever brush I’m using for the shave, and after each pass I test the 1430 to see how the lather’s doing, and until yesterday the lather was gone by the time I ended the first pass: really nothing left in the brush, which would have required reloading if I were shaving with it.
But yesterday, suddenly, the lather was fully present after not only the first pass but even after the second and the third, with plenty of lather left at the end for more passes. It was a very abrupt transition, and today I decided to give it a go. I chose a good-lathering soap, Martin de Candre, and loaded the brush well.
The same thing happened today: loads of lather present for all three passes. If the brush were a cat, it would be looking at me and saying, “What?”
The Above the Tie R1, here with the Atlas handle, is a very good razor for me: totally comfortable and easily delivers a BBS result, which it did again today. The Atlas handle has struck me as somewhat shorter than I prefer, but today I got with the program, accepted it for what it is, and realized that it does a fine job. The spiraled handle is both grippy and pleasant, and I enjoyed the entire shave.
A good splash of Fine’s l’Orange Noir to finish the shave, and I’m a happy guy.
I weigh for the record on the first of each month, and my weight is now down 15 lbs from the first of the year—so that’s a loss of 5 lbs/month, which is not bad. In looking at daily averages by month, I’m getting a grip on the meal planning. My daily average net carbs for the three months (Jan, Feb, Mar) has steadily dropped: 58g, 45g, 44g. My goal is less than 50g net carbs per day, so I’m on track there. Average daily calories are also trending down: 1459, 1325, 1294. My goal for April is 1199 average per day. We’ll see.
I use FatSecret.com to track meals, and I’m finding that checking the month view to look at the running average is helpful.
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