After a small flurry of web shopping and the attendant wait for shipping, I now own several new pens: a shiny-but-distinguished black laquer & palladium Sheaffer fountain pen (via ebay), a matching rollerball (via Staples.com), and a chrome Fisher Space Pen (an actual Office Depot store), which replaces the one I seem to have lost in San Francisco at some point. (I have no idea where it went, since it is usually in my pocket.) The new fountain pen means I can put my 80s-era Sheaffer Targa out to pasture for a bit.
Why the pen craze? I'm always jotting something down on a sticky note at work for one reason or another and decided I might as well have a nice group of pens to choose from. The Space Pen is usually in my pocket along with a Pocket Mod (very cool tool, check it out) in case I want to jot down something I saw or thought about and don't want to forget (this has been known to happen now and then). There's a small Moleskine notebook in my messenger bag along with a generic pen or two, but the Moleskine only seems to get used on vacations.
Oh, I also picked up a Shirt Pocket Briefcase (in ever-stylish black) from the Levenger store at Marshall Fields down on State. Nice device, kinda expensive for what you get, especially the notecards, but proving to be rather useful at work when you don't want to carry around a porfolio or notepad.
Now that my iPod syncs with my address book and calendar, I've really had no use for my old Palm m100, which was really only used for playing Yahtzee.
