9.1.25 - MIGHTIER

Dear fountain pen freaks, manual typists, and white-out huffers,

There’s nothing for it, this ink cartridge is going to run out in a paragraph or two.  I’ll have to switch to a new implement, as I am out of Lamy cartridges for this pen.  It is Labor Day, so office supply procurement is out.  I have a Pilot G2 .07 mm gel pen as backup.  I can live with that.  A good solid pen. 

Pentel Rolling Writer

One pen I always loved was the Pentel Rolling Writer.  But I bought a box of them on Amazon years ago, and they were all dried up.  This was before we knew Amazon would take back a fedora hat even if it had an arrow through it.  Then I stopped seeing them in stores, and Pentel Rolling Writers were no longer top of mind. 

I also had a long run with cheap Schaefer fountain pens, but the threaded barrels would crack from switching out cartridges.  Flair marker pens are great--all the colors--but too coarse for journaling by the pound.

Distant cousin of my many Schaefer fountain pens

I’ve gone through many spirals, many Moleksine notebooks, many assorted notebooks.  I used to use large hardbound unlined sketch books from Borders--back when there was a Borders at the Oakway Mall in Eugene.  A4 is my favorite size.  At some point, journaling came to kind of a backwater. Not a dead end, because who can say? But I couldn’t stand writing for no one to read, and introversion felt like scab-picking, or throwing a hundred pounds of gravel into the lake, one piece at a time.

My September Demo of The Month is done, I just need to dust it off and post it.  This cartridge has not died yet.