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Hey Shawn, I just wanted to pop in and say that it was really cool to meet you and talk for a bit over the weekend at the meet up. I see you made it home safe and I hope that it is warmer where you are. I'll be giving the Fourth & Pine sample a try in the next couple days here. Have a great week!

Likewise, Jeff, that was a blast. I wish I hadn't been so groggy after those partying Canucks with beards and man buns kept me up all night, but it was cool to hear about the parallels between our two Rust Belt areas. Lots of fun!

Hey Shawn, I just wanted to pop in and say that it was really cool to meet you and talk for a bit over the weekend at the meet up. I see you made it home safe and I hope that it is warmer where you are. I'll be giving the Fourth & Pine sample a try in the next couple days here. Have a great week!

Likewise, Jeff, that was a blast. I wish I hadn't been so groggy after those partying Canucks with beards and man buns kept me up all night, but it was cool to hear about the parallels between our two Rust Belt areas. Lots of fun!

Man buns? What part of Canada where these guys from? While beards appear to be having a renaissance , I'd have to say the man bun isn't as popular.

Marko Don't worry, these guys were from Ontario. I did give Claude from Henri et Victoria a bit of a hard time about his fellow Ontarians having such a lack of fashion sense, but that dude had approximately 38 times as much fashion sense as I do, so maybe he took the lion's share from that province. Plus, the beards were far more prevalent than the man buns, but I tended to focus in on the worst of the collection solely because I was the grumpy old man who was being being kept awake by those GOLL DURN KIDS

I'm just kidding, though, obviously I see man buns and beards far too often here in St. Louis, as well, as much as I hate to admit it.

I'm with you guys. Can't stand the man bun! I live in hipsterville so EVERY dude I see walking around has a beard, man bun or both. Nothing against beards though, just not for me. I enjoy shaving it off too much.

wyze0ne Sadly, I wore a beard for years. Then I decided that I needed a change right about the same time I found out about wetshaving. Talk about serendipity.

hawns I just noticed the Recommended Pairings page on your website - thats really useful information thanks. Whats really scary is how many of those soaps I actually have.
Mark

Marko Thanks, it's still a work in progress (hence why I haven't started pushing it yet), but some people suggested it for me and it's been nice to refer people to instead of having to type it out. I hear you on the too many soaps thing. I use recommended pairings as an excuse to keep buying more (also, the advantages of being a single guy. My dog doesn't care how many soaps I buy as long as she gets her dog food and treats), but it is really getting overwhelming in the mornings sometimes. And there are still so many I need to try.

Marko Thanks, it's still a work in progress (hence why I haven't started pushing it yet), but some people suggested it for me and it's been nice to refer people to instead of having to type it out. I hear you on the too many soaps thing. I use recommended pairings as an excuse to keep buying more (also, the advantages of being a single guy. My dog doesn't care how many soaps I buy as long as she gets her dog food and treats), but it is really getting overwhelming in the mornings sometimes. And there are still so many I need to try.

I've occasionally thought it might be good to develop an app that you would enter all of your product information and it would determine the shave for you. To be of value the app would have to already be loaded with all of the products out there pre/during/post shave and then it would be a question of ticking the boxes for the product you have. There would be an algorithm for determining the pairings and there would be new versions as new products come on the market.

I expect an aftershave named in honour of your dog. Not smelling like her, just as a tribute.
Mark

N, no, no Marko , I don't want a machine or an app telling me how to shave or what to use. We already live in a pretty technologically depending society, lol.......Some things deserve to be left for a man to decide :-)

Marko We sometimes make apps for clients at my job. Our programmer has a TON of work getting those things launched and bug free, enough so that I never ever want to undertake that challenge. Of course, the functionality would be far less robust, but STILL. I have enough trouble using our idiot-proof CMS on the website.

And hrfdez I'm with you. Our robot overlords need to stay out of my bathroom! Okay, maybe I went a little too far with that, but I just imagined a shaving version of War of the Worlds and it made me chortle.