Haiku (about fountain pens)

[essayfaire]

 

and before anyone complains about syllables, remember I live in the South of the United States.

[mhguda]

[Misfit]

[Paul-in-SF]

[mhguda]

5 hours ago, Misfit said:

Thank you. Believe it or not, it's a little more bearable.

[Misfit]

@mhguda I’m a Libra, and it is the only zodiac sign that is inanimate. I have sympathy for broken things. I tend to pick up items on grocery store floors, and put them back on the shelf. I recently microwaved Morningstar Farms breakfast strips on the last of a stoneware plate from its design. On the last 30 second of microwaving, I heard a sound.  I knew it was the sound of something too hot breaking dining items. I felt so guilty using that plate instead of a Corningware plate. The stoneware plate has a crack about 4” long, but it didn’t break. I use it to turn over hash browns.  So I’m still using it, but I hand wash it now.

[mhguda]

I can relate. I hate to break things. And I try to put them together again.

In this case, the pen had been giving me trouble already - it wouldn't retract anymore, and the nib was oriented at about a 30 degree angle inside the mouth of the pen. In order to prevent it from drying out I would either try to push it back or cap it.

Then I tried washing the whole section with warm water, and that's where it came apart. The part that screws the section and the barrel together - and controls the angle the nib goes in - came loose, and it won't stay put anymore. And to cap it all, the converter piston broke off. So now I have parts of a Tianbo airborne soldier. I am still hoping for a way to put it together again, but I'm not holding my breath...

[essayfaire]

We've had used the Japanese golden repair method to make things more beautiful after breaking.

 

https://mymodernmet.com/kintsugi-kintsukuroi/

[Misfit]

@essayfaire interesting article. I did think about trying to put glue on the crack. I didn’t know if it would survive washing. Plus the crack isn’t too open, so I don’t know if a glue would fill in what’s there.  I still want to use the plate.  I don’t have any lacquer paint. 😉

[Misfit]

I should have written a haiku. I was trying to add an image, using my iPhone like I always do to add images. The + wouldn’t work.  Another plus image appeared too. First time that’s happened. 

[essayfaire]

19 hours ago, Misfit said:

@essayfaire interesting article. I did think about trying to put glue on the crack. I didn’t know if it would survive washing. Plus the crack isn’t too open, so I don’t know if a glue would fill in what’s there.  I still want to use the plate.  I don’t have any lacquer paint. 😉

I think we ended up mixing a gold paint into a food-safe glue, but we don't eat out of the broken things anymore, though we will use them for serving.

[mhguda]

[Misfit]

[essayfaire]

@MisfitA thread on FPN?

[Misfit]

24 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

@MisfitA thread on FPN?

Yes, it was about almost obsolete objects still being used or bought because I decided to buy an iPod. 

[essayfaire]

23 hours ago, Misfit said:

Yes, it was about almost obsolete objects still being used or bought because I decided to buy an iPod. 

I believe I was an enabler in that purchase...

[Misfit]

9 hours ago, essayfaire said:

I believe I was an enabler in that purchase...

I don’t hold it against you. I was already on the slippery slope. 

[Misfit]

[Misfit]

[A Smug Dill]