That denim strop thing got me laughing because I've been tossing blades that probably had life left in them for years. My cheap self has been buying new blades every couple weeks when a piece of old jeans could've kept them going. Tried the mid day strop yesterday on a hot afternoon and the blade did feel cooler on the second head. The real test is whether I stop burning that back of the neck line on my kid's hair, and so far it's looking better.

Watched a buddy of mine cross 2 million yards on his dredge down in Texas. He kept quiet about it, just marked the day in his log book like any other shift. Two years later the company sold that boat and scrapped most of the gear. He told me later he wished he'd painted the number on the hull or something, anything, because now there's nothing left to point at. All those years and hours and it just vanished. So yeah, put it on the boat.