That's mighty cold! haha grocery store sushi. Roll the dice...

『ナミヤ雑貨店の奇跡』is an awesome book. I read it to my oldest and we both loved it.

Glad you could enjoy the post!

It's a lovely ink color. It's part of Pilot's line of 24 inks that follows the 二十四節気. All wonderful inks.

Looks very nice!

Mont Blanc does make good pens, whether fountain pen or rollerball.

Wow, that looks so different! I haven't touched Splinterlands in 2 years or so. Not since the CL mess. I'm kind of curious to try again, but then again I don't want to buy any new cards.

Hope you guys can keep it going in the future. I want to join in eventually. I am too busy with work and kids and just not disciplined enough right now to make time to get and send coins out, but it's

My grandparents had a huge aloe plant. Many of the branches/sprouts/pieces looked like yours. But it kept getting new sprouts, so they never worried too much. I just remember every time one of us would

haha I understand. Actually decent fountain pens can keep up quite well with fast writing. Lamy makes fountain pens for schoolkids in Germany, and those work really well.

The interesting thing is fountain pens have been increasing in popularity the past few years, so pen makers can justify spending a little more money — as a result, even the cheap crappy ones are getting

Well said!

Those Mont Blancs are nice pens! Even the extra fine MB nibs are a bit too broad for me — I prefer the Japanese grind — but they are great and beautiful. They make great signing pens, which is probably

Yeah, cheap fountain pens leak. I can imagine that would have been a bad experience. Well, if you ever feel the urge to try again, I can give you advice on good ones (and much less expensive than this

Learning Greek sounds challenging. Good luck with that! The learning violin one is I think wonderful. I love the violin and have often thought about learning myself. It has such a gorgeous sound. My favorite

Your doodles are very nice. You remind me of Zentangles. If you enjoy doodling, have you even tried that? BTW, I have an expensive set of uni pencils I bought for my oldest son. It's all the way from 8B

Could be worse. I once had to do an hr overnight layover in Narita with an 8 year old. Luckily it wasn't so bad. We found plenty to look at around the airport, and then I let him sleep right next to me

I’d argue Orwell is invoked so often precisely because our culture has lost its appetite for nuance and prefers black-and-white thinking. His work is easy to flatten into a simple good-versus-evil slogan.

Looks great!

I've never done anything like that before. Sounds fun!