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Spent the day today at work meeting, greeting and mingling with some of the graduates from our campus/program. It was a great and sort of emotional day. Had a wonderful time.

Today’s Thankful Thing: Just spending time crashed on the sofa watching old movies.

Wanted to do a different photo today because I was tired of just ‘feet’, but that *was* the theme this week so.. me.. with my feet.

Today’s Thankful Thing: Hangin out with my work peeps today.

I will tell you this, though.. the very first time I ever spoke to my darling husband, it was in a conversation on IRC and he asked me if I had any photos of my feet. Oddly enough… I did and here we are today. Happily ever after, baby.

Today’s Thankful Thing: That I have more nail polish to fix that second toenail there where it’s missing the polish.

I had something witty to say about the Edison Disk, the syringe, and the pens. WordPress ate that post altogether, so I’m just posting it again. Cheers!

In keeping with my “old junk” theme here… ..a green dinosaur.

The Eagle was the first-ever cartridge-filled pen. It never caught on, and was discontinued. It was another 20 years on before another company attempted the cartridge system for a fountain pen, and today, it’s a farily common practice. The glass cartridge was another bit that usually never survived, and again, I was lucky enough to find one complete.  The sealed end shows melt-work.

All but the feed and the cartridge of the Eagle is brass. Usually, they were never cleaned or handled properly, and ended up corroded beyond repair. Mine could use a bit of clean-up, but I’m hoping only needs a bit of craftiness before it’s functional again.

One of the most destroyed parts is the feed. In the Eagle, it’s made of wood, and carved into very sharp bits. these channels extend the length of the feed, and allow ink to flow to the nib smoothly. Since they’re so sharp, the fragile feeds often never survive time.

There are a couple of people in the world that have these pens who also have owned up to that fact online. I’ve learned that several of the parts are often damaged or destroyed entirely. I was lucky enough to find one of these pens in quite good condition.