Sample

[merest]

I had a flash of inspiration yesterday, and realized I could stick my india ink in sample bottles - the kind you normally put stuff in that you want to send off to a lab. It hit me, the ones I had fit my dip nibs almost perfectly, are water tight, large enough to hold a decent amount of ink, but small enough I could easily carry them in my pockets if I wanted (though I am a little reluctant to find out if the screw caps can survive the odd twisting motions being in a pant pocket inevitably puts something through.) I think if I were to stick them in one of my small, reinforced cases with a bit of stuffing for padding, I could pretty easily carry these things on the go. 

They're great with my brushes, too, though those are a lot more forgiving. 

Currently I've got three: One for full black, one for medium, and one for light grey washes. I also got so excited I ended up giving my wrists a hard time from all the doodling I did. 

Well, I had intended to get back on the typewriter wagon anyhow, so that's as good an excuse as any. I think I've said this before, but I do want to finish my longfic sometime or other. 

One nice thing about the weather getting cooler is I'm less reserved about taking my computer in the car with me, so I can get a bit of typing in before I go to work. As it is, I've mostly been dedicating that to the editing on my little Jack and Vlad essay, which I'm now quite close to polishing off. Just a few hundred more words to go. 

I also organized some small plastic duckies by color, which was a stupid but oddly satisfying thing to do. It turns out the little guys glow in the dark, too, so that was pretty cool.