For Christmas last year, the wife got me a Fisher Space Pen. Since then, it's been in my pocket all but two days (I thought I had lost it, but it was in my golf bag). In the past 10+ months, I've been trying to use some of its advertised features. For example, one of the easy ones was to make sure it can write at any angle, "even upside down." It passed that with flying colors, I was able to complete a sudoku puzzle while laying on my back. I tried the same test with one of my old Dr. Grip pens, it stopped writing within a minute or two. Fisher also claims that the pen can write "through grease." I tested this the first time I ordered a pizza, and again, it passed.

One of the things I hadn't tried, however, was writing underwater. Let me give you some Omar trivia: I hate water. If it's raining, I'm trying to get out of the rain. When there's a pool party, I'm on the deck sipping a cold beverage. And when I'm in the shower, I don't have a pocket in which I can put my pen. There are no normal circumstances under which I'd have opportunity to write on a surface that is in water.

But because I'm so thorough, and because I signed up for this NaBloPoMo thing and needed something to write about, I decided to test it. So I grabbed the first thing I could find that would withstand being written on while underwater (a Linens-N-Things coupon), some water, my pen, and I went to work:

Next time, I'll be testing the "writes in 250˚F" claim.