{"id":35855,"date":"2026-10-27T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35855"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:21:32","slug":"dereifiedpotentialation-october-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/27\/dereifiedpotentialation-october-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DeReifiedPotentialation: October 27, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve added a couple of things to the donation boxes:<\/p>\n

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I got the Braun shaver twenty-some years ago when I went into the office every morning downtown. I figured if I got an electric shaver, then I could shave while reading blogs before work. However, I switched back to disposable razors probably twenty-some-minus-three-or-so years ago, and it’s been gathering dust in my closet ever since. Looking at my Amazon history, I bought twelve cleaner refill packs in 2009 and I used two of them. So I guess I was using the electric shaver at Nogglestead, but not for long. I remember from my Ebay days that a lot of estate sales had electric shavers available. Well, not mine.<\/p>\n

I took a glance at Ebay to see what Braun shavers are going for, and…. I dunno, whole kits go for a hundred or two hundred dollars, I suppose, depending. Should I get back into the lifestyle or rent a booth at Relics? Sometimes, things like this make me wonder.<\/p>\n

Next to it, also from the closet, is a little clear plastic container and a six pound box of colored sand for sand art projects. I might have bought the equipment after reading Sand Art<\/em> in 2012<\/a>. Perhaps I even thought it would be a good project to do with my boys. Ah, how many art supplies I bought and thought I’d do projects with them, but I only did it a couple of times. I remember cutting out pieces of construction paper and making mosaics with them, and another year we made little Sculpey Christmas ornaments that were so thin that I glued them to a painted plaque instead. That plaque is still part of our holiday decor, although bits of the thin ornaments are breaking off now. Ah, what did I fill my days with then? Reading blogs and posting on 24thState.com (now defunct, a long time gone), probably. And then they were in school. But maybe they remember some of it, but not sand art.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about the books and records (and swords) I acquire; I guess I’ll spend a little time musing on the things I let go from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve added a couple of things to the donation boxes: I got the Braun shaver twenty-some years ago when I went into the office every morning downtown. I figured if I got an electric shaver, then I could shave while reading blogs before work. However, I switched back to disposable razors probably twenty-some-minus-three-or-so years ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35856,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855\/revisions\/35856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}