Travel.
I’m traveling for a couple of days for a workshop, so expect even less frequent updates here (but it’s as good an excuse as any to start up my Twitter stream again).
A little lazyweb question, though, before I go. I like to carry a selection of my writing instruments with me, but air travel poses a bit of a problem for the fountain pens. I’ve read various places that you should have your FPs either totally full or totally empty to minimize the impact that changing cabin pressure has on the chambered ink. Yet, somehow I always seem to end up with at least one pen that gets a little over-excited and has an accident. My solution has been to always stuff the FPs into a Ziploc inside my pencil bag to contain any leakage, and then clean things up after I arrive.
Short of ditching the fountain pens, is there some trick I’m unaware of for keeping things dry? (I suppose I could carry only cartridge pens and then load them when I get to my destination, but I’ll still have issues on the way back.)