The only fun thing I got done tonight was a little ink mixing. Last fall I got a bottle of Noodler's Red Black and after trying it decided it wasn't black enough, so I'm mixing it with some Heart of Darkness to find something more to my taste. When I was in KC in January I was able to pick up a bottle of Noodler's Blue, which I really like. But ( Read more... )

Having missed three days in a row of writing on my NaNoWriMo novel, I really really need to hit the 2000/day mark if I am to finish on time. Trying to stay calm about this ( Read more... )

I didn't spend as much money on games at Gencon as I thought I would (but I tried! Alas, Helen, the Witcher board game was not available yet) and thus I have extra discretionary money on hand. I could (and probably should) spend it on something useful, like a new suitcase or getting my Birks repaired. What I want is this little piece of skyI ( Read more... )

I'm doing this via my new tablet, so this will probably be quick. As I am not one of those people wedded to their cell phone, typing with only two fingers is slightly unnatural ( Read more... )

I’ve promised a few people on Facebook some words on fountain pens for beginners, and I’m putting it here because I don’t like how FB handles long posts and links. I'm not an expert on fountain pens, but here that may be an advantage. I also have some biases when it comes to pens, but I’ll point them out as they come up so that the reader can ( Read more... )

I'm very tired; still carrying sleep debt from Monday. I had gone to be early last night to try to catch up, but since I got four phone calls during the course of the night from my new baker this didn't help as much as I would have liked. (First call was a little after 10 pm, last was around 4 am.) This is part of the training of new bakers; ( Read more... )

Today on Fountain Pen Network someone posted a rumor (they gave no sources, so I am not treating it as fact) that Sailor might be bringing back their limited edition Yama-dori ink. I spazzed out over this during my lunch break. I'm still spazzing out over it ( Read more... )

Today I canceled the apocolypse by calling up the library and convincing them that yes, I had returned that book on Korean cooking at the beginning of the month and they could take that $35 library fine off of my account. Go me ( Read more... )

So apparently of late I have been so busy I haven't even had time to talk about myself. How terrible is that? Also for some time I have owed
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I bought myself a TWSBI Vac 700 tonight. This was entirely unexpected. But I had gotten through my annual evaluation today without wanting to stab myself, TWSBI was running an interesting sale, and I happened across a review of the Vac 700 which said, basically, that this was a pen that put functional design over pretty styling and I was sold. ( Read more... )