daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
Here’s one of my favorites songs from one of my favorite bands – り・ぼん by My Little Lover. This band was super-popular in the late ’90s and the singer is still active presently.
I’ve recently been learning more songs on my bass, and り・ぼん is one I am working on now. It’s a super-fun bass-line. Once I get good enough maybe I will make a video, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy the song/video. You can also find more videos from the band here.
*Spoiler Alert* So last night I watched How to Train Your Dragon 2 on Netflix. The animation was great. I liked the movie. But I woke up in the middle of the night with a thought in my head… What is going to happen to the dead alpha-dragon’s carcass? I mean, it is massive! The size of a tiny island. Just how do you dispose of something that humongous? Do you burn it? Is is possible to drag it into the sea? Or do you just let it rot? These are important unresolved issues that need to be addressed!
Last summer while I was in Japan, we went to the stationery store and I saw these cool multi-ink pen components. I think my wife created one but for some reason I didn’t make one. But I do like taking notes using different colored pens and instead of carrying around three pens for a total of three colors, I finally decided to get a multi-ink pen. After a little research I found myself at jetpens.com ordering 2 pen bodies, and 8 inks to load into them. There were a few different brands and models and I went with the Pilot Hi-Tech-C Coleto pen system. For the first pen, I went with a plain clear body, which I filled with a standard set of colors – red, blue, green, violet, but for the other pen I got a light blue body and a brighter set of colors – “Clear Blue”, “Apple Green”, “Baby Pink”, and “Apricot Orange”.
These two pens are AWESOME! I love writing with them. Having all these colors literally at my fingertips makes note-taking a lot more fun and the notes are much more organized. I’m pretty happy with the colors I chose and how they look together on paper, but of course now I want to get a third body for even more color options. It’s fun!
On a side note, I did buy one other plain black pen (you can see it in the picture). It’s a Zebra Sarasa model, with 1mm tip. I love the super-thick strokes it makes. For the multi-ink pens, I went with the thickest available, which is .5mm.
Check out this video about the Pilot Hi-Tech-C Coleto pen system and order yours today!!
There are only two situations which will cause me to repeatedly drop f-bombs: When I am pruning our thorny rose bushes, and when I am using iTunes. Always.
