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…

The way I do my own theme system is like this.

I look at my previous theme and think about putting into words how I want to improve over the next three months.

Then I try to find 5-10 outcomes to make that happen.

After that I do what I call a “sub-theme”; and that is a 1-2 week period where I have one goal and one action per outcome. Where the idea is that I try to move them forward every day by doing something.

At the end of a theme or sub-theme I do a retrospective and use that to influence what I’ll do next.

I always have these phases with my pens. Sometimes I have 2-3 fountain pens and a gel pen in my bag. And other items I just have like 10 pens in it.

Until I just can’t deal with having so many pens in use and start cleaning and putting them away as I write them empty.

At the moment I’m very much in all the pens territory.

There is a weird feeling I get when I get near the end of a yearly planner. Partly it is like: I filled all of this; but also: why am I dragging around 11 months of filled in pages?!