Hey remember when I said, like, years and years and definitely not a scant few months ago that I would stop buying stationery?

Well I lied. But it's not like any of you were going to hold me to a promise!

Hello, hello! I hope everyone has been having a lovely summer. It had been suspiciously cool here in San Jose, but the heat's been getting cranked up recently; we've gotten three "small" heat waves in July. I say small because they've only lasted about two days each, but still. I'm mourning the weeks and weeks of 75 degree weather, but as they say: don't cry because it's over, smile because you didn't sweat in your non-air conditioned home once from April through June.

I've had a few new additions (or a lot...) to my stationery collection, so I thought I might go ahead and cover them today.

I've done a terrible job of keeping up with my currently inked pens on here. Since my last post I've cleaned out and filled and cleaned out... a lot of pens. Which is great for me; I'm really glad to see proof that I'm putting a dent in my fountain pen ink collection, however small. Not good for the continued updates on this blog, however. Also, the other day I told my coworkers that I had more inks in my drawer than the entire Teranishi Guitar ink lineup, and I got a genuine gasp. 

Well anyway, let's try to get back into the habit!

Four little journals, all in a row

I started my fourth A5 journal* on June 6th, 2021, and I finished it just a few days ago.