Pilot's Log

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Thanks to bare patches of skin around my lower jawline, I can't grow a decent full beard. My whiskers are dense and tough, though, so shaving is a chore for me. I only shave when I can't stand to look at myself in a mirror...or need to for a public appearance or somesuch.

Hey.

I'm sure I've mentioned my attitudes about my beard/facial hair before. So I don't really feel the need to repeat myself. Anyway, I generally use both an electric shaver and a manual one when I shave...and I had been sans manual for a few weeks after breaking my second Schick Tracer. So I looked around for replacements, and looked, and looked...

Finally found some at a Big Lots. Of course, when something gets to Big Lots, it often means that's the end--if you buy one, it'll be your last one. This brings on a value judgment:

Do I buy enough shavers to last a lifetime--and then invest in replacement heads, as I'll need maybe forty or fifty heads in a year's everyday use? Do I just buy one and a few replacement heads to tide me over till I get a better shaver? Do I take the plunge and buy a newer shaver anyway, so I don't have any problem with replacement heads? I can get three Tracer shavers for the cost of one "new" shaver...but how much longer will Schick make Tracer heads? A year? Six months?

This afternoon, I bought a five-pack of store-brand, disposable, two-blade shavers. It cost me a dollar less than a Tracer at Big Lots. Maybe I'll go back to Big Lots for a Tracer or two, but this drops the priority of the problem down a few spaces.

The store-brand shaver works, but not as well as a Schick Tracer. I guess I have more rumination to do.

FP

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