Yeah. Fifth grade. Standard metal crate, set my book bag on top of it with the dog in it and left for however long. Came back and he had pulled the bag into the crate, shredded it and anything in it. Felt like the coolest person on earth to hand my teacher a parent note confirming the dog ate my homework.
BromSwolligans
joined 2 years ago
I'm warming up to it. Actually, I was never not warm to it, but the learning curve is real. I am on the website right now because the iOS app MLem, which is in beta, doesn't (as far as I can tell) have a way to search for other communities. But I want to shout that creator out, because I think it's difficult, thankless work, and I really appreciate their effort. The fact there is an app for iOS at all is a wonderful start. Who knows how solid it will be a year from now?
I can hardly even remember. I think I was just curious to write in a way that was a little classier than disposables. I'm a Blackwing pencil convert, and I decided over the years that if you're going to enjoy doing something (or have to do it), you might as well do it right. The same way they get you to spend big bucks on a mattress, I suppose, but a $20-30 fountain pen has a much lower barrier of entry. It has its shortcomings, but I always come back to my first one, which was a Picasso pen...a 902, maybe? Its nib is a little fat for my tastes, and the cap slips off in my pocket, threatening my pants every day I take it out with me, but that same chubby nib flows over paper like silk. I've got other pens whose caps stay better, or whose nibs are finer, but I always end up using this one because at the end of the day, improved writing experience was why I went down this road in the first place.
My only real concern is iOS app support but it's still early days.