Daty 84 - Fanciest Pen

 FANCIEST PEN

Prompt - Fanciest Pen : Get out your favourite pen, pencils, or even coloured markers and write using them!

Pen?? Pencils??  Coloured markers??  I thought we were in the twenty first century?  The days of my having a favourite pen are long gone.  There were times when I took pleasure in writing my daily diary entries with a nice fountain pen, and kept a bottle of Quink on my desk at the ready, but the diary too is entirely online these days and pens are things I use occasionally to write down quick notes and reminders.  But not for any serious writing.  That's what a keyboard is for.  So I've chosen my favourite keyboard to type this up on.  Not the best, not the quickest, but probably the quirkiest and the one that opens up most opportunities (or should do!).

But before that, a couple of asides.  It's likely that I will have a new pen in a few weeks time (hard to be specific when it's Kickstarter!) and that it will become my favourite.  Not because of how it writes, as I have no idea how comfortable it will prove as an actual scribbling implement, but because I can talk to it.  It's a voice recorder, and will be with me for capturing ideas - I hope...

Aside number two  It's an odd coincidence that the past three days, on jury duty, have seen me doing more writing, with a pen, that at any time for months.  But I'm glad that's over.

y keyboard today is small, a bit rattly, prone to missing characters so typing is much slower than on anything else I own that has physical keys, and is less than ideal for typing large volumes of words.  But. It's my Planet Computers Gemini.  Planet's long awaited replacement for, or modern take on, the Psion.  A handheld with a proper qwerty layout and the ability to be used almost anywhere.  It needs me to practice it on it more to become a bit quicker, because at the moment it's usually only used for short messages or internet searches.  

The Gemini will need replacing in the not too distant future.  It runs Android 7 and there have been two further generations of the Planet product since.  I would love to have a better quality, and backlit, keyboard.  But best bit about the Gemini, and the single reason why I love it, is the freedom to write anywhere. That I've done so rarely is no fault of the Gemini, but mine alone.  If this summer is half decent I must - MUST - make myself do more outdoor writing.  If  can write outdoors I can write directly about what I observe.  I can look at people as characters.  I can...  I can speculate all I want, but unless I DO then it all means nothing.