Pilot Precise V5 - my weapon of choice
Friday, November 02, 2007
For a technologically-involved person, I spend a lot of time interested in analogue devices. Like pens and paper. This week, one of my trusty Pilot V5
I buy these pens in boxes of twelve, for fear they’ll stop making them. They’re reliable (they work perfectly up until the point when they meet their maker), smooth and very fine - allowing you to write neat tiny lines quickly.
At any one time probably four or five are divided between home, the office and my bag, so I’m never too far from one. When I left Dublin, my generous employer gave me a very nice Montblanc fountain pen, but that’s sitting in my pen mug at home because it doesn’t cover the paper so smoothly and precisely.
The king is dead, long live the king
So after a quick period of mourning for the loyal writing instrument that had gone to the great stationery store in the sky, I reached into my stash, and pulled out a shiny new one. It worked instantly, and closed with a crisp click. The king is dead . . .
A cup of coffee, a Moleskine notebook and a Pilot V5 and I’m a happy boy. Sometimes kicking it old school is the way to go.