💧 I'm still using up the brown ink in the pens I put it in a couple of weeks ago so I still haven't been able to test out the last few shades of brown ink. Clearly I need more cheap disposable pens. And on the plus side, the cheapest fountain pen, the Platinum Preppy, is the one that's the least prone to drying out. ... On the minus side, my pen cup is close to being full of fountain pens now. I've already moved everything that wasn't a fountain pen into a lesser pen cup of shame behind the main one.
🔍 Nib tuning IS going to happen! We walked to Motonet last week when it was cold and windy - haha jk it's STILL cold and windy - to grab the set of three magnifying loupes (aka hand lenses) that I will need to check nib alignment before attempting to grind or smooth away any trouble spots. I've got my info posts and tutorials all queued up and the sheets of smoothing mylar I ordered from my favorite small British fountain pen specialty shop, The Writing Desk, arrived weeks ago. I simply hadn't bought the lenses because it was an errand that had to be done on foot.
📐 Motonet is a huge tool & hardware store that sells car stuff & tool stuff & garden stuff but not, like, lumber. They have about four times the power tools of Clas Ohlson, though, and I like to go and ogle them. (I keep MEANING to buy a corded power drill... .) We stumbled and hit ourselves on the Ryobi display. Ryobi's branding is stellar. Everything is so modern, yet rugged looking, in that beautiful happy neon spring birch bud green. While I was talking about power drills,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
waxjism found this cordless hand vac and determined that since we have so much dust, actually it would be a savings rather than a waste of money to get a cute-yet-rugged tactical hand vac, so we did. The packaging and the instructions are so serious, I feel like I've bought a very cheap and small 40€ car. Except we were so distracted and enthusiastic - due to being there together, and talking about it - that we forgot to really read the package. So we didn't notice that Ryobi's 18V cordless lithium battery tools come without the battery because the battery is interchangeable, rechargeable and practically everlasting, its design dating to the 90s; and that the cheapest of these batteries is about twice the cost of the vac, and the cheapest of the chargers is about 50€, with the cheapest battery+charger pack being around 100€. So we definitely still have to do some more reading before we can purchase that and actually use it to vacuum anything. I'm not sure what Ah is yet.
🔨 Mece was here months ago and told us the reason our wall-mounted entryway coatrack shelf keeps falling down is that it was not anchored with the right anchors for its weight and the wall material, twice in a row. Like, why did we even call maintenance to do it at all if they were just going to do it wrong?! They're the pros! We could just do it wrong ourselves!! So we went to Clas Ohlson and read all the stuff and bought what seem to be the right sort of wall anchors, only I'm not really sure if we can get them in without a strong power drill anyway. So we might have to either borrow MIL's or call maintenance again. The latter is much easier, but can we trust them? We've just been using this shelf for a year tilted halfway out of the wall with fewer coats hung on the hooks. Probably should not do that. I've been putting off seeking out the proper tutorials for a month now for fear that they'll make it clear that we can't do it ourselves and we have to call someone. We hate calling someone.
🔍 Nib tuning IS going to happen! We walked to Motonet last week when it was cold and windy - haha jk it's STILL cold and windy - to grab the set of three magnifying loupes (aka hand lenses) that I will need to check nib alignment before attempting to grind or smooth away any trouble spots. I've got my info posts and tutorials all queued up and the sheets of smoothing mylar I ordered from my favorite small British fountain pen specialty shop, The Writing Desk, arrived weeks ago. I simply hadn't bought the lenses because it was an errand that had to be done on foot.
📐 Motonet is a huge tool & hardware store that sells car stuff & tool stuff & garden stuff but not, like, lumber. They have about four times the power tools of Clas Ohlson, though, and I like to go and ogle them. (I keep MEANING to buy a corded power drill... .) We stumbled and hit ourselves on the Ryobi display. Ryobi's branding is stellar. Everything is so modern, yet rugged looking, in that beautiful happy neon spring birch bud green. While I was talking about power drills,
waxjism found this cordless hand vac and determined that since we have so much dust, actually it would be a savings rather than a waste of money to get a cute-yet-rugged tactical hand vac, so we did. The packaging and the instructions are so serious, I feel like I've bought a very cheap and small 40€ car. Except we were so distracted and enthusiastic - due to being there together, and talking about it - that we forgot to really read the package. So we didn't notice that Ryobi's 18V cordless lithium battery tools come without the battery because the battery is interchangeable, rechargeable and practically everlasting, its design dating to the 90s; and that the cheapest of these batteries is about twice the cost of the vac, and the cheapest of the chargers is about 50€, with the cheapest battery+charger pack being around 100€. So we definitely still have to do some more reading before we can purchase that and actually use it to vacuum anything. I'm not sure what Ah is yet.🔨 Mece was here months ago and told us the reason our wall-mounted entryway coatrack shelf keeps falling down is that it was not anchored with the right anchors for its weight and the wall material, twice in a row. Like, why did we even call maintenance to do it at all if they were just going to do it wrong?! They're the pros! We could just do it wrong ourselves!! So we went to Clas Ohlson and read all the stuff and bought what seem to be the right sort of wall anchors, only I'm not really sure if we can get them in without a strong power drill anyway. So we might have to either borrow MIL's or call maintenance again. The latter is much easier, but can we trust them? We've just been using this shelf for a year tilted halfway out of the wall with fewer coats hung on the hooks. Probably should not do that. I've been putting off seeking out the proper tutorials for a month now for fear that they'll make it clear that we can't do it ourselves and we have to call someone. We hate calling someone.
