It amused me to put Mike's envelope with a blurb about ballpoint pens. Clearly, he uses very fine vintage nibs and ink.
I always enjoy finding the teeny-tiny details in Mike’s work. There is a Merry Christmas on the band under the bird. And the addressing is exquisite. I don’t post personal photos. There was one on the enclosed card and I was tempted to just crop out the people and show you the adorable little dog - wearing an ever-so-proper strand of pearls. It takes a very special pup to pull off pearls. Maybe Mike will give me permission to run a photo of Louie.
I will be happy to run photos of pets if you want to send them to me. The BigHelpful Brother and I have had lengthy discussions about living with non-humans during my two stints as a substitute *parent* to my son’s pet. I don’t know what to call the people who share homes with pets. Is everyone part of the same family? *Owner *doesn’t sound right at all. Feel free to let me know the appropriate term. Parents? Roommates? Housemates? Fellow-inmates? Cellmate? Kindred spirits? Hostages?
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Attention all ball point pen aficionados - here is an 8 minute video from JetPens that explains some interesting things about ballpoint pens and the various options in ink. I love ballpoint pens. In the video, many of the loopy test patterns that they show have blobby ink. I can't imagine why they didn't figure out how to make the ink smooth. I have several of the pens that they show and I do not have blobby problems.
The title, How the Ballpoint Pen Changed the Way We Write - caught my eye. It has to do with needing to hold the ballpoint more upright than the fountain pen. It was worth the 8 minutes to learn that. It seems so obvious - I do it intuitively. But, I had not been able to assign that to all the issues with egregiously awful pen grips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhutUpqzNQ
Of course, you can always go to their main channel and view all kinds of videos on pens, markers, and other kinds of highly addictive materials.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JetPensOfficial/videos
Caregiver is a popular term for people who share their homes with pets. Better than some of the anthropomorphic terms like Doggy Daddy. My friend, Olga, however, calls me her “lady in waiting.“
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