The big picture this week is that I’m off from work. That means my writing and reading is to suit my own interests. I anticipate a healthy amount of annotating, reading notes, scratch notes pertaining to personal projects, and journaling. Slow paced, methodical, and reflective.

In short: I can make any pen and ink combination work well this week.

There are generally three options when matching inks to pens. Find an ink that matches to your pen’s color, choose an ink that compliments your pen’s color, or go wild.

How does one whittle down a set of 12 inked pens to six? Turns out that I couldn’t. But seven was feasible.

Focusing on my needs for the week did the trick. I am scheduled for desk work (comments and grading projects from two separate classes) and plenty of floating meetings.

My friend Jo extended their brother’s offer to bring inks back from where he lives in Japan last December. Jo was particularly interested in a line of three limited Pilot inks from Tokyo: Shimbashi-iro, Edo-Murasaki, and Fukugawa-nezu. Two bottles of each; six in total.