This is the current carry of things I always have with me wherever I happen to be working

• Studio Neat dual pen tray
• Brass Travelers ruler
• Hobonichi A5 planner
• Hobonichi A5 grid notebook
• My regular sized Travelers Notebook
• If I have any I use the Studio Neat Panobook or Rhodia DotPads in A5 if not.
• Pluss all the stuff in my Daily Carry.
• I also usually have a few fountain pens. It is usually 2-3 to a lot more of whatever I currently have inked.

My “desk setup” is what I call the pen & paper stuff I always have on my desk. These are typically items I either have two of, or bring between home and work.

• Panobook from Studio Neat; or dot pads if I run out or they take forever in shipping to Norway. I’ll usually have one at the office and one at home.
• Dual Pen Tray from Studio neat; this one I bring back and forth, but I’ll probably get more of them soon.
• Midori Brass Ruler; this one I also bring back and forth, and I’m considering getting more of them.
• My Hobonichi notebooks (A5 Cousin Planner, A5 grid notebook for goals etc)

I typically will have the pen tray closes to myself, then the Panobook and then my laptop or keyboard, with the ruler on right side of the keyboard. The ruler is mostly use to quickly divide the Panobook pages in 6 equal ish columns; the last one is a bit wider than the rest.

I’ll usually also have both the Hobonichi notebooks open and visible while working.

Most of the time I use fountain pens with all of it; sometimes gel. That is more a part of my daily / work carry than this.

I’d love to get two more of both the ruler and tray though. So that I can have one tray & ruler at my home desk, work desk and one in my daily carry if I’m working from neither.

I’ve been getting more into the Lamy Safari recently. Used to hate it in the start of my fountain pen journey because of the molded grip. And then as I’ve noticed I actually like some pens like that, like the TWSBI Eco, I bought one last year.

When I saw the Pink Cliff I had to get it.

I really like the pen. And got me into getting a bunch an frankensteining them.

The one disappointment about it is that the ink it came with should have been something more special than a regular Lamy blue.

I used to love this pen. It was kind of like a flex-ish nib from Pilot. But I dropped it on the floor and screwed up the nib. And I never got around to bying another one.

It was great though. And a lot of fun.

Fuck I was annoyed when that happened.

Not long after I had written and sent the post about the cap snapping in two, I started to notice I got more ink on my fingers than usual. And turns out there was also a crack in the barrel more or less where the cap crap was.

Makes sense.

So I retired it. And I will without a doubt get another one as soon as I get around to it. As it being one of my favorite pens.

This is the most recent one and what started this series. Like I drop things all the way. Most likely one of the advantages of having ADHD.

Most of the time I don’t care. Not one of the people who care about things look pristine

So my TWSBI VAC700R fell from the couch to the floor for the millionth time and the cap snapped in two right where the metal wring above the threads.

I just “oh man”, and I thought about ordering another one, but decided to just glue it on.

This is most likely one of the pens I use the most. So if this don’t work out I’ll most likely end up with a new one.

Seems like a lot have happened to this one over the time I’v had it.

After having it for like a month, I dropped it, and messed up the nib.

A lot stuff was going on then.

I remember it was early in the morning just as I came into the office, right at the end of the current consulting gig.

So probably a combination of slippery fingers and being a bit stressed about there was way too much to do before the end of the month.

I think this was the first time I broke an expensive pen. I dropped it on the floor in the office I was in at the time.

It made me so angry and sad.

I ordered a replacement unit more or less right away; changing it from a medium to broad.

I decided to do a short blog post series about all the pens I have dropped about broken over the years, at least the one I can remember.

Re-visiting a lot of uncomfortable feelings here…