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Hah!  I'm like that at the place I go camping.  People will say "Oh, we're in E08" or  "I'm camped in N21".  And I'll be going, "Yeah, but what ROAD are you on?" (combined with their specific camp's name).

Ironically, one of this year's NaPoWriMo prompts was to write a set of directions. The SCA folks would immediately understand this: "From the bathhouse, take Great Eastern Highway down the hill, and bare right at the fork by the Island of Misfit Peers"; go past Dancing Spider to the back side of Horde Classic -- and if you get to the Roman Road and Howard's Fenway you've gone too far...; unless you're driving -- in which case go LEFT at the fork onto the High Road, then bare right onto Brewers and go past Howard's Fenway and Camp Bluefeather, then down the hill and turn RIGHT onto Great Eastern...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I need to work on my family gazetteer. I've begun jotting down places and place names significant to family, noting latitude and longitude and reference ellipsoid when I realized I'm the last person to remember some of the locations. This included the location of family graves. Barely remember going looking for family graves where my family moved from over a century ago, with mixed results.

 

I have to write directions as part of my job. I am convinced it is impossible to write a set of directions that someone, somewhere, are unable to follow. The other week I specified a location beginning at the intersection of two roads, and which side of the road it was on. In case that wasn't clear enough, I gave driving directions, referencing road names, highway numbers, and distances in tenths of a mile. The person who got those directions claimed to be unable to find it.

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I pulled out an old ink journal today - great memories!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Browsing through Wal-Mart yesterday, I came upon a pocket-sized notepad that looked very nice! So I picked it up and noticed the label on the front said simply...."Simply"!
The label also stated that the paper is 100 GS/M
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So I grabbed one...just to test it out.
Got home and sure enough...IT'S FOUNTAIN PEN FRIENDLY PAPER!!!
No bleedthrough, feathering or shadowing even when using my flex-pen laying down heavy ink!!

The only downside...they're like 30 pages thick 🤦‍♂️

So I'd need one for every month...possibly two...lol.
Still on the fence about whether I'll go back or just find something else.

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Here was how I used my journal today.

 

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Responding to FPN Posts.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 5/20/2021 at 9:12 AM, Detman101 said:

Browsing through Wal-Mart yesterday, I came upon a pocket-sized notepad that looked very nice! So I picked it up and noticed the label on the front said simply...."Simply"!
The label also stated that the paper is 100 GS/M
:o
So I grabbed one...just to test it out.
Got home and sure enough...IT'S FOUNTAIN PEN FRIENDLY PAPER!!!
No bleedthrough, feathering or shadowing even when using my flex-pen laying down heavy ink!!

The only downside...they're like 30 pages thick 🤦‍♂️

So I'd need one for every month...possibly two...lol.
Still on the fence about whether I'll go back or just find something else.

Does it say anyplace on the label where it's made?  I have gotten a couple of composition books at Walmart during back to school sales, when stuff like that is cheap, and the paper is decent (but don't remember the brand names offhand).

I've also found that the three-packs of mini-composition books at Dollar Tree are decent paper (I think those are made in India), and at 3/$1 they're good for keeping track of daily expenses, when I'd balk at using more expensive notebooks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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19 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Does it say anyplace on the label where it's made?  I have gotten a couple of composition books at Walmart during back to school sales, when stuff like that is cheap, and the paper is decent (but don't remember the brand names offhand).

I've also found that the three-packs of mini-composition books at Dollar Tree are decent paper (I think those are made in India), and at 3/$1 they're good for keeping track of daily expenses, when I'd balk at using more expensive notebooks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I see... "Daler-Rowney LTD., Brucknell Berkshire England"

 

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Interesting.  I think I've seen some of their sketchbooks in places like Michaels, and also a local Pittsburgh art store, and had been wondering about the paper quality for those.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting.  I think I've seen some of their sketchbooks in places like Michaels, and also a local Pittsburgh art store, and had been wondering about the paper quality for those.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I will return to hunting for a good pocket-sized journal to replace the one I have sometime this week.
Hopefully I will find a version of this "Simply..." journal with more pages.
I wish they would post the GSM on all the journals.... *sigh* it would make things so much easier.
Ah well...

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