Ken Can't Write

Eee! Can't wait!

It looks so innocent in the bottle, doesn't it?

The "Nuclear Nitrogen" isn't dramatically different from the regular OS Nitrogen ink. The main difference I see is that the purple sheen appears more even when you're looking at it head-on.

Ordered a sort of Halloween palette of fountain pen ink. Not entirely on purpose, but I'm delighted with the result.

Birmingham inks are really excellent, BTW. Highly recommended!

https://www.birminghampens.com/collections/fountain-pen-ink

One of my absolute favorite inks. Intense and strangely difficult to pin down with regard to hue, and a bright, metallic gold sheen to top it off.

This color is part of Sailor's "Ink Studio" series, where each ink is given a number instead of a name. That said, I think of this one as "Disco Era Pink".

Showing off some sheen.

Blue/purple ink: Organic Studios NItrogen in a TWSBI Diamond 580ALR Fine nib

Pink/gold ink: Sailor Ink Studio 731 in a LAMY Safari broad nib

Finally, it is done.

(For now.)

My guitar pedal board is a bit... complicated. I'm mounting multiple boards in the drawers of an old steel "tanker" desk. There are separate "top" and "bottom" boards, one per drawer.

So here's the thing: I put the last pedal on the board last night. The "top" board looks good. It powers up, no problem.

But now the bottom board isn't powering up. Seems I pulled a plug. I know which one it is, but at this point the board has limited range of motion without undoing a ton of stuff (knew this was a risk going in, no regrets).

So now I go fishing, trying to find & re-connect the loose cord. Since I can't really see anything, I have to go by finger-feelies. Pic shows the chaos viewed from the underside of the board.

This should be fun.

Maybe you think that's cheap but I usually get it for free.

"So that was it: now that she thinks he’s “one of us” she can lecture him. She’s far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality—however messy—is far more comprehensible."