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Hey fellow pen junkies,

Let's say you have a dozen or so of your beauties lined up at the ready,

and you have alot of work to do.

Are they more of a help B) , or more of a distraction :drool:?:

Not to mention ebay and FPN. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Regards,

Jeen

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Truly admire the beauty of 'em but **need** to work (or they'll soon be up on the block 'cuz their owner is destitute!). ;)

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Hi,

 

Well, you will understand when I say that I didn't have time to look at my new Cyanic Blue AT Cross ATX--I was too busy writing with it. I can comment on writing quality, but nothing else.

 

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Nah, they make writing more enjoyable and, particularly if the task is not very exciting, make it easier to get on with it due to the writing pleasure. On the other hand, some times one will call out to you and just demand to be stared at for a moment or two - which can be a nice break.

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I agree with Southpaw... they encourage me to do the work, provided it's something that I can do with pen & paper, of course ;)

 

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Hi Jeen,

It gets worse..I wrote 4 x A4 pages of total nonsense just to test out my new Danitrio Takumi. It was addictive. I re-read what I wrote this morning..where was my brain..It was absolute drivel..I can only imagine what it was like in the 60's and I wasn't drug enduced..just pen induced euphoria..Coooool.. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Hi Jeen,

It gets worse..I wrote 4 x A4 pages of total nonsense just to test out my new Danitrio Takumi. It was addictive. I re-read what I wrote this morning..where was my brain..It was absolute drivel..I can only imagine what it was like in the 60's and I wasn't drug enduced..just pen induced euphoria..Coooool.. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well, at least it was 4 papers of different words. Everytime I want to test out my pen, I can't think of anything to write except "hello" or sign my name or write the pen's name out on paper. :doh: I've written a lot of "hello"s :)

 

I need a life... :blink:

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Hey Gary and Betty,

 

I believe there is a scene in "The Shining" where the crazy character played by Jack Nicholson is supposed to be writing a novel, but his wife discovers to her horror that he has typed a huge stack of nonsense.

My wife had the same reaction to my test sheets. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

Hal, I mean Jeen

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Hi Jeen,

It gets worse..I wrote 4 x A4 pages of total nonsense just to test out my new Danitrio Takumi. It was addictive. I re-read what I wrote this morning..where was my brain..It was absolute drivel..I can only imagine what it was like in the 60's and I wasn't drug enduced..just pen induced euphoria..Coooool.. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Well, at least it was 4 papers of different words. Everytime I want to test out my pen, I can't think of anything to write except "hello" or sign my name or write the pen's name out on paper. :doh: I've written a lot of "hello"s :)

 

I need a life... :blink:

Everytime I am testing out a nib, I always write "All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy..." and repeat over and over. And if my wife walks by, I would give her a big grin and say "Here's Johnny!" That will give her the creeps :lol: :lol: because she think "The Shining" is the scariest movie ever! Yeah, I know, I am terrible... :lol: but, I can't help it. :lol:

 

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Hi Jeen, and yes they can be a distraction. My wife can name several occassions when chores were interrupted by a strange and insistant calling from my pen box.....

 

Larry

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yes, minor distraction if i have work to do as i stare at them too much. honestly i maybe look at my pens more than i write w/them.

 

the pursuit of fp's - yes, a major distraction :doh:

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My two Charles Hubert's came last night (wow. I ordered them Friday and had them Monday.) I will load pictures and thoughts on them later tonight. At any rate, I had a lull this afternoon at work and just spent the time breaking in the new pens. It was fun.

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Nah, they're not really a distraction, but I go for function over form; no pocket jewelery to look at, no precious-resin bird splats to compulsively polish fingerprints from. :D At the worst, I stop and go "Blue or black ink? Sheaffer or... a different Sheaffer?".

 

I admire the creativity and inspiration of you all. When I'm testing a pen, or regrinding a nib, I either write my name, the alphabet, or write the word "doodle" over and over again. When I'm really being creative, I start writing homonyms... I pity the day the folks from Homeland Security raid my shack, I mean, um, apartment, and find pages covered in cryptic messages like "Poodle noodle strudel doodle"...

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Hey fellow pen junkies,

Let's say you have a dozen or so of your beauties lined up at the ready,

and you have alot of work to do.

Are they more of a help B) , or more of a distraction :drool:?:

Not to mention ebay and FPN. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Regards,

Jeen

It's funny that I have about 6 really big pens in a case by my desk and don't really just gaze at them. I'm even to the point that I have one entirely uninked pen without any real desire to ink it up. Maybe I've become a jaded pen user!

 

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