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Welp, it's #FountainPen cleaning and re-inking day. #Today I re-learned why I don't use shimmer inks in my #TWSBI Diamond 580. In fact, I usually reserve them exclusively for dip pens.

Time to meticulously clean out a clogged feed. It didn't even make it a paragraph.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I've got J. Herbin's 1670 Emerald of Chivor in my TWSBI Diamond 580, and it's working fine. I'm not seeing any shimmer though, as I've got an EF nib on it. It looks REALLY cool inside the pen.


TIL that tuning a glass pen with sandpaper (even the one included with the pen) should only be attempted by an experienced user.

Also, #today I gained a lot of experience in this area out of necessity after the fact. Still, I shan't be doing that again for a while.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Doing it in extremely small, barely noticeable increments with continual testing can work out, and the only way to become experienced is to test, fail, succeed, fail again, repeat. Hope you got it working in the end!


I must do things #today but my bed is too cozy.

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Katy bought a bread slicer, so obviously I had to make a loaf of #sourdough #today to test it out.

Why does it have to take so long to cool?

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It's been over a year now since my last blog post. #Today I started working on a new one about my adventures with #org-mode. As an experiment, I'm trying to compose the post itself in org-mode, and then export to HTML for the site.

Depending on how reasonable the resulting HTML ends up being, this might be my go-to method of composing blog posts going forward.

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