A brand new supermarket, Wegman’s, just opened around the corner, so we went by last night to check it out and grocery shop. Bad idea. Apparently a new Wegman’s is wildly popular, and you could barely move the cart through the isles. Anyway, a piece of fried chicken, stuffing, and potato salad made for a pretty nice lunch today.
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So, as many of you long time readers know, I’m usually the first to try out any sort of new shaving product. I’ve had the disposable, Sensor, Sensor Excel, Mach 3, Mach 3 Turbo, Shick Quatro, and the M3 Power razors so it seemed pretty natural that I would buy the new Fusion the first week it came out. So I did, although I forgot to write about it at the time. When I cut myself shaving today (more on that below) I was reminded there’s things the people deserve to know.
In short, the Fusion was marketed bascially as the Mach 5+1 with 5 super-close razors and an extra “trimming” blade attached to the top. (That’s it on the right in some sort of high tech, razor holodeck.) Given the choice between the regular and the “power” version, obviously I chose the power. Since they’re in the business of selling razor blades, not razors, obviously this thing was going to be worth every cent. Of course, buying blades for it for a year is like a small mortgage, but who worries about that when mesmorized by all the flashy orange packaging? (Hint: me.) So, how does this razor of the future shave? Well, that all depends on what part of your face. On the big, smooth, surfaces, it’s like a vibrating dream, effortlessly lopping off all your unwanted scruffyness and turning you into Smooth-Face McSexy. Until you try to shave your chin. On my chin, within the first few weeks of shaving, the Mach 5+1′s gigantic shaving surface didn’t seem to appreciate the natural contours of my face, and I cut myself in the area I can best describe as right below the soul patch, were I to sport such a beard. Hey, people cut themselves shaving, so I didn’t think too much about it. Until it did it again, in the same spot, and this was after shaving around the cut until it healed. Now, although this game of cutting, then waiting, gave me an excellent opportunity to use the trimming blade, which does work quite well, it was starting to occur to me that the razor had left a permanent little bump where I had been getting cut, even after completely healing, that it was always going to cut. It was then that I abandoned the Mach 5+1 and switched back to what I still consider the best, non-permanently-scarring, shave on the planet: the M3 Power Razor with the cheaper Mach 3 Turbo blades. If you’re listening, Gillette, I’d totally buy the upgrade if you slapped that trimming blade on to the top of the Turbo blade. Oh, and damn you for the scar.
Been meaning to post this all week:
Dan/Gus’s annual celebration of German been and brats is tomorrow, so clear your evening, pick up a case of your favorite German beer, and head over to his place in East Falls any time after 4pm. If you’ve got lederhosen, now’s the time to wear them. See you there.
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