[fieldposting] some things! a post!

[kaberett]

I spent ... some ... time on Thursday night very concerned that I had Broken My Fancy Pen. (The pen I am using most in the field is a Pilot Vanishing Point/Capless, which I got very cheap second hand because it was a little bit dinged up already, where by "very cheap" if you are not a pen person I mean "add at least one more zero", and if you are a Pen Person I mean "remove one zero".) The actuation -- it's a clicky pen -- wasn't properly actuating, in that it was feeling spongy and squishy and generally sluggish and Did Not Want To Work Properly.

I was relieved the following morning to discover that actually it was entirely fine.

... and it was not until dusk when the air temperature dropped precipitously again, and it started happening again, that I realised that Possibly and Perhaps what was going on was It Doesn't Like Cold Weather.

(I have not yet gathered further data i.e. asked pen people on the internet if they've had similar experiences.)

Meanwhile today a player correctly identified the pen I was using from a brief glimpse, with nontrivial awe about Being So Close To One Of Those, and while under most circumstances players don't get to use anything but the lending biro I keep in my pocket at all most times for this precise purpose, on this occasion I moved to offer to let them try it, and was vindicated in this decision when they, wide-eyed, asked If I Was Sure.

(It went fine! They enjoyed themself! I'm a little sad it was the EF nib on suboptimal paper, but hey, they had fun and the pen came back to me in one piece.)

Comments

[kaberett]

....... I have lost the tab the composition was ongoing in :|

[cesy]

Hooray for pen not being broken.