Carrie was ordering some ink for her pen, so I decided to be silly and order a fountain pen of my own.
I ordered the Lamy Safari Vista, a clear fountain pen, and a bottle of Noodler’s Black. This is a permanent/archival fountain pen ink, which is awesome; I don’t have to worry about a glass of water taking out my notebook, for example. (Ever since the basement floodings of 1998, I’ve been a little leery of what I use to take notes in my research notebooks.)
Now, I’m going to learn how to use this pen, and probably get ink all over the place. My next post will probably be titled Don’t fill your fountain pen near your laptop, or something similar.
Update: I found this page to be handy, since I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t actually know where to start with the piston adapter. The device is so simple, yet it wasn’t obvious to me what to do. This page has cleaning tips, which look important.
The big question is if this pen is compatible with JungleDisk and Jets3t.
Sadly, no.
My husband used a fountain pen for taking notes when he was an undergrad. You could tell how long he had nodded off in class by the size of the ink splotch in the middle of the page.
That’s the mark of an amateur, I’m afraid. When nodding off in class, never leave any telltale signs that might be used to incriminate you later.
I was about to give you some examples, but realized that I might incriminate myself.
So far, I’m digging the pen. It’s clear, and it has a big clip. It is great awesome. And, Carrie ordered some purple ink as well as the black ink I requested, so I may try that out after it runs dry.
Always wanted one of those, but I’m lefthanded to I keep smearing the ink. Crap. Maybe I’ll buy one and keep it in its box.