Losing a Montblanc would be bad. I don’t cry often when dogs aren’t involved but that may get me.

Glad you like the posts. I’ll keep at it…

The Pilots are great pens but I’ve not put down $300 for one of those. Yet.

Thankfully, I’ve not bit bitten by the mechanical watch bug. Years ago, for a time, I was fascinated by pocket watches, and then pocket knives. Wish I could have that money back…

Oh no, not a present. The pen is a staple — like bread and milk. And at our office Christmas party we had a Yankee Gift Exchange and I got a sweet Cross pen! I’m in pen heaven at the moment.

I have this lovely, soft case that holds two pair of eyeglasses, and has a center pouch with “sub-pouches” for two pens, plus a center pouch for stuff like a lens-cleaning cloth. Besides my regular specs and reading/computing glasses (that’s right…no mentioning the “B” word here), I carry my two all-time fave fountain pens, a Pilot Custom 823 and Pilot Vanishing Point. No, I don’t think you really want to know how much they cost, but they’re not the only FPs I’ve owned, only the latest. Somehow, the only “nice” pens I’ve ever lost were a few ballpoints (also pricey, alas). I gave up on pricey ballpoints for that very reason, aside from the fact that there are tons of non-pricey BPs that write just as well, and feel almost as good in the hand. FPs, are in a whole ‘nother league.

But let me tell you about mechanical watches…

Hi again Bryce,
Nice to chat with someone from Her Britannic Majesty’s realm.
No, it didn’t cross my mind that you might be oriental, nor would I be concerned. It’s just the contorted minds of us Aussies that tend to change the names of people to something that our feeble minds can remember. My best friend “Dave” is called “Joe” if that makes any sense at all.
Thank you for explaining your heritage…no slight intended on my part.
If you are a Vespa rider that makes you a brother.

May this second pen, NOT be a write-off!

Perhaps consider this second pen to be a
gift -to -yourself-pen
for Christmas?

Au contraire Mike. For I too live in a country still part of the motherland UK.
In Canada. My given name was my mother’s maiden name actually, and I have seen it spelled Brice (considered the “English” spelling )as well as “Bryce” which is the Scottish spelling.

My mother’s family originated on the Scotland/England bordesr up north. So it is entirely possible some would mix the name. Too many people like yourself call me Bruce Lee and then think NOTt having met me that I am Oriental, which i most definitely am not!
Or the other variant, Brice Leigh, again a variant of the spelling. My mother’s family emigrated from Scotland in 1849; my father’s family can be traced back to the
Battles of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec.

No, just working for Penn State. But I did buy a second pen!

No, my parents weren’t attached to things so I didn’t hear that. I remember shooting one of those plastic rockets that you would put water in and pump up with air through our dining room window while my parents were eating. My dad looked out and said, “You better be more careful boy.”. Same reaction when I accidentally shot a stone through the rear window of the station wagon…