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.
Going to do a second reply here, for simplicity. I legit hope I’m not spewing crazytalk, I have had one (1) beer. OK, perhaps two. Off today, and it’s already been exactly that kind of week. It’s 16:24 here, but also 70 F / 21 C - first day it’s been legit comfy instead of “grumble grumble global warming wtf???”
Please pardon my abs terrible photog skills. Seriously, it’s nearly criminal that I’m even allowed to snap a photo.
Here are the images that might make my blathering less painful to the brain. In order…
PS Y’all - and especially you - I hope like hell to make it to Chicago pen show this year. Planned to last year, and stuff got crazy. If all works out to get there, I’ll gladly buy a round. I’m in IT, in a tax-adjacent area, so May is exactly when I need a shot or three after the crazy wears off as of 16 April.
Open to hearing about drills that worked for you - If I’m being honest, I’ve forgotten at least six or seven of the twenty-six letters, in cursive. I distinctly remember second-grade me asking “Why would I ever need to know this BS?”… While I’ve asked similar questions about e.g., math, and been proven wrong… Cursive is the thing I wish I hadn’t blown off.
Circa 20 years ago, I did a stint installing cable TV. Damned if the Pythagorean theorem (sp?) didn’t come in reaaaaaal handy when trying to get a gut feel for “Should I bother to take the ladder off the truck?” (Protip: Nope, homeowner is a moron and that slope is 30 degrees so it doesn’t matter if I can theoretically reach it, they can get bent regardless)
Ok, got it on the 6-ring.
I went and researched a little and I was right about seeing 5-ring in the US on occasion.
I’ll try to remember to post up about handwriting drills. I will probably make it an actual post to get / keep the sub active. I kind of had to re-learn cursive a little. I had adopted a rather non standard form for several letters.
Never been to Chicago. Probably can’t make this year as I have travel plans in May and barely any vaca time saved up. :/ We have a pen show here in Denver in fall. I missed last year. Also missed the Pelikan hub. Trying to force myself out of the house post COVID is…a challenge.
Some of the math stuff has come in handy for a few hobbies but not much for work.