Office supplies get worse every year. Oh how fondly I remember the days when one could get a decent pen at work. Now the best pens I get by way of work are hotel pens on business trips. I'm partial to the gel pens at the Parker Meridien in New York.
It wasn't exactly supplied by work, but they did send me to Tokyo where I bought a Pilot Hi-Tec C and became unhealthily fixated. My writing is dreadful, but it turns out that if you use a 0.2mm line, it becomes legible. It was only when I got home that I discovered that you can't buy them over the counter here and I was forced to descend to the twilight netherworld of japanese pen geeks. Suddenly my adolescent AD&D binges seem kind of cool...
The best vendor supplied pen I've ever gotten was a nice black, clickable, efficient ball point from Carpenter Steel in Reading PA, when I went on a plant and lab tour there. I still have it today in my pocket planner.
It wasn't exactly supplied by work, but they did send me to Tokyo where I bought a Pilot Hi-Tec C and became unhealthily fixated. My writing is dreadful, but it turns out that if you use a 0.2mm line, it becomes legible. It was only when I got home that I discovered that you can't buy them over the counter here and I was forced to descend to the twilight netherworld of japanese pen geeks. Suddenly my adolescent AD&D binges seem kind of cool...
ReplyDeleteGreat. Just what a I need, an expensive pen habit. I ordered some, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe best vendor supplied pen I've ever gotten was a nice black, clickable, efficient ball point from Carpenter Steel in Reading PA, when I went on a plant and lab tour there. I still have it today in my pocket planner.
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