HollyKing's Journal

My “Clock Repair & Restoration” class starts this Wednesday. In preparation I went and bought a couple of new notebooks. One has the standard college ruled paper. The other one has graph paper. Because there is very little information posted on the school’s website I don’t know what I might need in class. This is a strange feeling for me because I usually have some idea of what I’m taking. This is going to be an adventure. The other strange part is I don’t know anyone else who works on clocks. So you’re all going to have to listen to my geeking out about clocks, gears, cogs, springs and movements. :)

While shopping I couldn’t resist one of my other addictions. I like pens and pencils. In particular I’m real fond of Pilot G2 gel pens and Varsity fountain pens. The store didn’t have any Varsity pens I didn’t have, but they did have a new pack of G2s that had some colors I don’t have. Well didn’t have them… I have them now.

I also found some new, to me, pens from TUL. They had gel pens, ball rollers and highlighters. I was good and only bought a single highlighter to see if I like them. They do have an uphill battle to overcome my love of the G2 and Varsity pens. According to my searches the TUL gel pens compare favorably with the G2 and are a bit cheaper. I need to find out if the TUL pen uses acid free archival ink like the G2 does.

Shhh… It’s an addiction… It doesn’t have to make sense…