I’m in an oddball mood this morning, so the quote is from Simon and Garfunkel’s “America”. The original is “Kathy,” the spelling liberty just fit my mood. Same for the mixed styles and colors in the text.
- Diamine Pink Ice / Preppy 05M
- Diamine Tropical Glory / Preppy 03F
- Diamine Apple Glory / Safari M
- Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku / Perkeo M
Clairefontaine Triomphe 90gsm lined stationery, which also happens to be stationary within a generic six-ring binder from Amazon that I stripped the cover off, and rigged to a much more solid piece of cardboard cut down to A5-ish.
Slides really nicely that way right into a Travelers Notebook, the original cover was clear flexy plastic and kinda worthless as an insert.
Quickie ink samples are on Midori in A6, weight unknown. It plays pretty well with a lot of things, I thought I’d dig the color, but… Not so much.
Keeb in the background is generic Chinese 80-key from Amazon, to replace the one that was on sale because it was UK layout and my dumb ass didn’t notice. Juuuuuuust different enough to be infuriating when I’m trying to work…
Gotta say, y’all, I enjoy this hobby on a relatively solitary basis, but… I’m having a friggin’ blast doing these - not just because I’m rediscovering stuff I adore that’s been buried too long in my ink drawer, but the sharing as well.
PS my penmanship is almost as potato as my photography skills. But I’m kinda stuck with both skills sucking, at this age. Meh, I still have fun.
Aw, shit, you bribe me with a keeb photo?
Yeah, I’ll restate gladly! Assuming you are American or at least not European, given unfamiliarity w/ the 6-ring?
Clairefontaine half-sheet / A5 (half-sheet for most of the civilized non-US world)
Ripped the rings out of a cheap binder, and duct taped them to a piece o’ cardboard cause they were attached to what may as well have been saran wrap. No idea why A5 requires six rings, when US Letter only needs three. Just is what it is.
Cardboard fits well into a nice, thick leather cover that a) I adore and b) holds the eleventy-seven cards I need to carry daily, and the whole thing makes a crazy neat package that might as well be tied up with a bow, it works that well together.
'cept I’m the “stripper” cause I yanked the totally generic actual binder part out of the crap Amazon cover. (k I feel a lilbit dirty now, but that’s, um, maybe not “new” per se)
<3 Cherry! Do we have a “MechanicalHeadPens” sub here? If not, we should. The “head” part for me is just bog standard bluetooth generic stuff, but it’s the point of it…
Give me a sec, I’ll update w/ some pics - I posted that at maybe 6 AM and my clarity was probs not what it should be…
Loving the brotherhood here. Aw, screw it. Let’s call it the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pens. 🙃
I’m a child of the early 80s, if someone had paid any attention, I’d have been classed an Aspie for sure back when, so… I legit appreciate your blunt “please restate” - within it, I hear “I care, I just don’t know WTF you’re on about!!!”
Much obliged! Ok, that made sense that time. My brain is back to being mostly functional. I’m American so plenty of 3 ring binders. I will go look up 6 ring binders. I swear I’ve seen 5 ring binders here. Anyway…
Sisterhood of the traveling pens lol I like it. :)
Thanks for the understanding. I’ve been a little sluggish upstairs all day. If anyone had paid attention in the 70s in elementary school… I still wouldn’t have been tagged as ADHD, because nobody recognized it beyond “hyper boys” and I was generally a quiet bookish lil guy.
Ironically, I thought that my wife and I were the only folks who remembered Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She (barely, and kindly) tolerated me crushing on A Bledel.
(I’m just the right age it wasn’t totally creepy, but still).
Aspie/Hyper… We went thru much the same thing. Took me until I was 40+ to find an outlet that let me write meaningfully, and also didn’t involve a piece of crap bic that made me want to throw it through a wall.
TBH I’ve never seen the movie or read the book but the name stood out :)
I always hated writing with ball points pens but didn’t realize it fully until I discovered fountain pens. I still think it is insane that ball points became so popular. I guess cost was the main thing. Not everyone could afford a good fp (Parker 51 or 45 or whatever)
Please pardon the couple of beers I’ve had. I sincerely hope that I was respectful and decent, etc.
Been a screwy day, FMLA callout turned into the whole damn day, and a buncha other stuff.
Things got real, etc. At the other site, I’d have halfass begged forgiveness and called it good. Here, I actively want the kind of feedback I’d have blown off there (right or wrong) in the interest of being a good citizen.
I’ve reasons for selecting a relatively solitary hobby, that makes sense to me, and to hell with everyone around me. Aspie etc, or no, I learned somewhere around fourth grade that maybe I should find interest in things that didn’t involve other people.
Obligatory, Asperger was by no means a saint. I see that, and in fact will raise. I just happen to be the guy who turned 30-something, saw something that was mostly parody, and went… “Wait, Wat?” (Thanks, Simon!)
Can’t fathom where I’d be if Travaglia hadn’t grabbed me by the proverbial throat and forced me to do some introspection. Yeah, [BOFH](Vhttps://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/bofh_2024_episode_4/ checking in…
You’ve been respectful and decent no worries.
I feel like I should know this acronym but my brain is going “…”
Anyway, all good here!
I have been known to goof up socially sometimes and so I try to be laid back about things.
I do pretty good in social situations where people can super nerd out over shared interest. Jeeps. Fountain pens… but I do my good share of solitary stuff too.
Not sure who Travaglia is but BOFH I’ve been familiar with for many years :)