Notices by Christina O'Sullivan ✅ 🇨🇦 (christinao@mastodon.cloud), page 12

@arjaybe All the fountain pens at that place had Sheaffer Skrip cartridges. OTOH it was the first antique shop I've been to where I've asked to see the fountain pens.

@arjaybe It was a Diamond Point Company pen, independent of Parker. https://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/DiamondPoint/DiamondPointLeverFiller.htm . I was almost intrigued but three-digit prices are too high for a low-functioning 'stylo-plume'.of lesser quality than a Parker, or Waterman or Conkling...

I saw a 1930s Diamond #FountainPen at an antique shop yesterday, but it had lost its lever/ink-filling mechanism, and the seller wanted $149 USD. No thanks.

Article: "What's Helped Me Get Out of My Head and Do Things That Scare Me"

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/whats-helped-get-head-things-scare/

https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-identify-intelligent-people

In case you're somewhere you are seriously concerned about the cognitive capability of the populace...

Does your Mastodon admin keep a list of blocked instances available from your instance's website?

If not, how do you know if a fediverse instance is blocked instead of temporarily down or gone altogether?

@gemlog I always wondered what the Bonzo Dog band was playing in "Magical Mystery Tour." Now I know!

I am going after retailers who use junk INSERT scripts into their customer database, so that email addresses differing by a nonalphanumeric character get junk marketing materials from a retailer they never ordered from.

I shouldn't receive someone else's Billing Order. I've emailed the Loss Prevention Dept of Overstock, and told them I'm printing and mailing a copy of my receipt to the billing address if they don't correct or delete.

@jeremiah In all fairness, we may've had four seconds of snowfall in higher parts between 01h44m12s and 01h44m16s that melted away by 09h30m.

@jeremiah We were supposed to have snow today. The meteorologists must have meant 'in the freezer.'

In case you need it:

"How to Stop the War in Your Head and Find Peace" https://tinybuddha.com/blog/stop-war-head/

If only my head wouldn't lie down and play dead as conflict avoidance SIGNAL HAS BEEN LOST

Can't determine if my new friend is "old" as in grey hair and wrinkles or "old" as in her kids have grey hair and wrinkles. She tells me she got on with her husband when WLM King was PM (before R.B. Bennett, or for the Americans out there, when Calvin Coolidge was President!) . #ohmy

@SlowRain because... my second deathpool hit of the week is a solo, so I'm now at 18th place instead of a 29-way tie for last;

I can touch and see my new penfriend's letters and so can my family, but I must be dreaming her because she's pretty much me, except better

(e.g. I inked my new pen with yama-budo today, later opened her letter & read she inked her Visconti Van Gogh pen with it;

My Amazon shipments arrived today all at once;
Schadenfreude at 13 foreign nationals;
and boozy coffee.

This is turning out to be such a beautiful day for me.

@gemlog I don't detect flippancy in your statements. But I'm going 'dark' for the evening to do some reading, so enjoy your evening. Until next time!

@gemlog I neglect the back channel too, for the same reason, but this isn't a comfortable subject. We don't know who out there in the fediverse survived a shooting or lost at least one beloved to it. If it's that common, I can't be the only one...

@gemlog I agree. I'll send my shooting survivor story via PGP. When the subject is human-hunting I'm beyond cogent armchair commentary.

@gemlog Thanks for the boost! Thanks for paying attention.

I wrote a few things I love about my kid on his card but I grievously forgot to mention his listing of "VOCO NONO" (Yoko Ono) on his 2018 Celebrity Death Pool.

Chuck Berry died earlier so to tell the angels to cut her mike if she ever makes it to heaven too.