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I *so* understand this post. If you asked anyone in my family something like, "What if anything is RaJ obsessed with?" They would answer, "Who's RaJ?"

After you explained, they would say pens.

Aside: I once read a camera review in a photog magazine. The reviewer noted because of inherent limitations in LCD technology, the camera's display would "black out" at temperatures over 140 deg. F. The reviewer then noted most photographers would *also* black out at those temperatures. I laughed then as I laugh now, reading this post.

Omar:

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For those of us in normal countries, the temperatures in English:

-30°F = (-30 - 32 * 5/9) °C = -34.4°C.

250°F = (250 - 32 * 5/9) °C = 121°C.

---X

I so don't get it. I mean, I can see the beauty in a pen that will work over grease and at temperature extremes and all, but I'm still using PaperMates at 12/$1. Mechanical pencils, however, are worth talking about.

I was going to wonder aloud if you made up that website, but it seems too elaborate for a hoax.

i wish i could hold on to a single pen for longer than a week at a time.

despite your issues, it sounds like a cool pen.

you can sign lots of haboobs with a pen that boasts a 100 year shelflife!

and please, hammer, don't hurt 'em.

Dude, I'm obsessed with pens too. If you're looking for a good new rollerball (for under $5) I've been using the Pentel Tetra for the last few months.

I'm lucky if I can find a crayon to write with most days.

I have a $32 pen from Cross. I love it. I hate when I lose it, because then I feel like a bigger loser than usual. Mainly because my husband bought me the pen and I lost it right away, so then I bought another one just like it, so he wouldn't know. I, fortunately, still have the second pen. Because I just found it again.

(It writes so good. And refills only cost 6.99 for a package of two!)

Dude. This rocks. Even without a vole.

I absolutely understand where you're coming from Ramo. I am a huge Pilot gel pen fan. For years I had grown attached to various Pilot models that had separate caps that had to be placed on the back of the pen. This was the natural progression from my high school days (Bic Round Stick Medium, Papermates, and other cheap bulk pens).

Then a friend of mine handed me a Pilot G-6 07 one fateful day I was without my usual gel ink pen pen. That pen had all the beauty, reliability, ink life, and quick drying time I've come to expect from other Pilot gel ink pens but was also retractable AND sported a textured rubber grip. I've been using this exact model pen ever since (For the last 4 years or so).

There have been some close calls as far as not being able to find the next 10 pack. I usually shop for the new pack with at least 2 pens left to go (in case I should mis-place one). I'm more likely to leave my apartment and forget my cell phone, laptop, or PDA yet still have my pen when I pull in to the parking lot at work in the morning.

Well, I better stop rambling on about this pen before people think I've lost my mind.

Lots of us have pen obsessions. I've wanted a Fisher like you described since I was a tiny kid and was reeled in by their ads with the astronauts. Splurge! Do it now, before your son is old enough to start misplacing every pen in the house. (Doesn't that happen when you have kids? Sure did to me.)

I have a whole office supply fetish. When an order comes in, I'm like a whore at a truck stop - hanging out until someone let's me open the box.

My favorite pen - the Pentel EnerGel, Needle Tip, 0.7mm, blue ink.

When I was in college, I couldn't take notes if I wasn't using a blue Crystal Bic. It was as though there was a disconnect between my brain and my hand if I was using another pen, and I couldn't write as fast! Good thing they were super cheap.

By the way, I love your blog; I found you through Lianne, who's my cousin (how lucky am I?).

Sorry about the triple post -- my computer kept screwing up. That'll teach me to read blogs while I'm at work.

Ed. Note: Fixed!

I can see I need start being more extravagant in my office supply ordering. Time to spend a good unproductive half hour perusing the catalog.

To prevent pen loss, you should attach it to a big piece of fetid, rotting wood like they did with the bathroom key at our local Exxon.

OK, YOU are funny. Glad I found your blog through EWBL. All of my pens are printed with various business logos and slogans and I picked up most of them for free. How lame am I.

I wanted you to know, I ran away with your ABBA song spoof idea.

I'm a nut for pens. I don't wear jewellery, so I have pens. I have the black one of these. It's so awesome that I just get it out sometimes to look at it (innuendo fully intended).

*cough*

---X

Ummmm....X, are you *sure* you are from a normal country?

In my house we are in constant search for the perfect red pen for marking papers. Preferably it would do the reading as well as the marking...

mormon millie reminded me of our infinite supply of pens that advertise a septic tank cleaning company. I'm not sure where we got them from, but I know who to call to get a septic tank flushed out.

If we actually had a septic tank, that is.

So, I once had the fisher space pen, matte black bullet, but visiting friends in Michigan, and I get home with no pen. There were kind words telling me that a manhunt like search ended fruitlessly, but I had the sneaking suspicion that a so-called friend was now writing upside down underwater through grease. I actually remember this obsession of yours, Mr. Phillips. I believe you needed to find a refill for your Dr. Grip during our Picture Magician days. Many stores visited, some with Dr. Grip pens, but no refills. Another failed attempt. Glad to see some things in life are constant.

so have you found the original yet? i love a good mystery. i'll help you find it...

thanks to X for clarifying the temperatures. now I can truly feel this post.

I think 17 bucks is pretty reasonable for a pen like that.

I go crazy when it comes to stationery shopping. gotta find the right rubber grips for comfortable writing, the right ink flow, the right measure of thickness for the ink, whether its a capped pen or a button-push thingie (I need to learn pen terms A.S.A.P), whether the refills are readily available, how good it makes my signature looks....

*swoon*

imagine what I'd be like if I even get a glimpse of your cool pen.

I am almost certain that in another life I owned an office supply store... not some Office Depot, mind you... but a store that sold pen after pen after pen with super paper products.

I am so going to try to get a pen like that.

When I shared my wonder at my fascinating new pen with you a few months ago, I never realized that you were that into pens. I would have hidden it.

I'm back to my regular Uni-Ball something-or-others, having found nothing better. Tried pretty much all of them in the campus bookstore. Sigh.

I can't get enough of my Pilot G-2 0.38. Talk about fine point.