old school

i really needed a shave today, from the looks of me, it's been at least a week.

when i reached for my ultra modern super duper high tech cordless electric shaver, it had 0 battery charge.

this appears to be a feature of this shaver: if I don't use it for a week, even if it is sitting in the charging cradle, when I actually really need it, the battery is dead. To make things even worse, it turns out that this shaver must be run on battery -- I can plug it into the wall, but that will only charge it, not allow me to use it! Argh! And it takes a good 20 minutes to charge up enough for a shave, maybe.

So I fell back on my old double edged razor. I took one of the two remaining Swedish Gillette blades, the most awesome blades I have, and gave myself a shave. It turns out the super duper high tech electric shaver delivers both a closer shave and a less irritating one that even my best and most unavailable (no longer produced) double edged razor, but the DE does have the distinct advantage of being actually usable 24/7/365.