Perusing Pinterest

This week I did some fun stuff on Pinterest---I already have a Pinterest account with boards on topics ranging from Disney Princesses (!) to winter homes, but have been inspired to update a couple of these boards as well as to create a couple of new ones. I also decided to follow the Cheshire, Connecticut Public Library partly because it had a lot of pins (over 5000), but also because these pins were very varied in nature and contained a lot of "quotable quotes" which I quite like. :)

Words and Pics

Am trying this week's challenge, and finding it fairly interesting. The word generator looks kind of cool, but I'm generally not a very visually motivated individual (prefer Blackberrys to I-phones, etc. !), so this is kind of foreign territory for me. I am a member of Pinterest, though!

Image by Elaine Vigneault via Wikimedia Commons

(I luv this one; looks just like my boy Clancy reading!)

The art of reading

Finished joining http://www.goodreads.com/, and was just thinking about an experience I had recently when I went to Second Cup. I had gone there specifically to read a book and get one of their great lattes, and was just about to take a sip and dive into my book when I took a moment to look around. Some people were there with others, enjoying coffee and conversation, but I noticed that an awful lot of people were there alone. The thing they had in common with me is that they were all reading, but of everyone there, I was the only one reading an actual, old-fashioned paper & print book. Most were on a computer, a few perusing e-readers; still, I couldn’t help but thinking, as I settled back to enjoy my good read that they really didn’t know what they were missing! All the new technologies have their advantages, and I have availed myself of some of them, but for me nothing compares to the feeling you get when you settle into a good book (old-school, of course! J).

Lots of libraries

I thought I’d follow Calgary Public Library on Twitter as it brings back fond memories. I’ve always been intrigued by library layouts and designs, just the physical space, and I remember living in Calgary in the 80’s and exploring virtually each and every library in the city! I loved going to a different library and just seeing what they had to offer, checking out the atmosphere, etc. I soon discovered that libraries are very much like people (or animals!) in that they each have their own distinct personality.

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Foiled again!

Well, I got the silver pen, but unfortunately, it is not the perfect silver pen as it is not made in the Sharpie style (which I really like). It's a marker pen that needs to be shaken before use. It appears that it will work pretty well, although I seem to remember dealing with the same type of pen before and finding that they leaked. However, for now it will do. In the meantime, however, the quest continues!

My quest for the perfect silver pen

Ok, I've been thinking about it, and have determined that it is sometimes the minutiae of an existence that contributes to its meaning. For instance, my quest for the perfect silver pen. This began when I started processing a lot of AV materials. I soon discovered that I don't like the finepoint Sharpies that we have to work with as they are not really fine at all, but rather smudgy (as far as I'm concerned, anyways!). So, I got myself a couple of black Sharpies that were ultra-fine, and found they worked nicely; very legible, and enabled the user to write more clearly and distinctly. So far, so good. But the problem was finding an indelible silver pen with an ultra-fine tip for the darker discs.
Somehow, I just wasn't able to find one anywhere! Until just before Christmas, when, lo and behold, I spotted one at Walmart, of all places. I didn't grab it then as I had my mind firmly set on Christmas shopping, but made a mental note to return once the holidays were past and pick one up. So, hopefully when I venture out this evening I will find it once more, and it will be just what I'm looking for---time will tell.