Thoughts & Ideas

  The art of writing with a fountain pen has become a lost art to most people, but it’s the best way to write in my opinion. I have always loved fountain pens they have a smoother flow of writing and they look more classic when you sign your name on something. There is nothing better than using a fountain pen in all your writing activities. I got my first fountain at the age of twelve, even though I don’t own it anymore (wish I did, it was given to me by my pop-pop.). This is when the love of fountain pens began, there was a short time when I didn’t use fountain pens, for one reason or another, but that changed about a year later when I walked into a paper store and saw all the different fountain pens and quills, which I also love to use. Now my fountain pen collection has grown significantly over sixty pens of all types. The pens are from many different makers, some have been given to me by friends who happen to find a fountain pen in their house or cleaning up their family ho...

    There is no other cooler or fun sport then fencing, yes, I said that. What other sport do you know of where you can wield a sword and physically attack someone without getting arrested. There are more to fencing than sword to body hits, it has a set of footwork and body positions with each strike. It is one of the last legal ways to duel another person without getting authorities involved and then the courts. I have always enjoyed fencing, I have been doing it for over thirty years now, I started with Olympic style fencing (and still do it every chance I get) which is with the foil, Epee and Sabre that in a way resemble a old-style car antenna. I than moved onto live steel fencing, which is using real style sword to fence with, and before anyone ask yes, I have fencing in a kilt before I don’t do it too often, but I have done it. During the quarantine time, I usually just do a little practice in the backyard or even in the driveway to have room, and not to break anythi...

  Writing isn’t for everyone, but I have enjoyed doing it since I was eight when I sat down and decided to write my first short story. My first stories were about ‘Star Wars’, then ‘G.I.JOE’   and moving to ‘The Garbage Pail kids’, these would be what we call fanfiction now adays. Besides loving history, I always enjoyed English classes as well especially when we had to write poetry, stories or even book reports. For the longest time I had kept writing as a hobby and getting maybe one manuscript typed up and turned into a book occasionally. It was and is still enjoyable even though its not really a hobby anymore, but a way or life.   When I commuted to work back in the day, I rode the buses and trains, I always had pens , paper and my laptop and would write on my commute. It was a great way of not having the commuter blues, I always kept busy and had gotten a lot of writing done. People always looked at what I was doing using notebooks and fountain pens to do my writi...

  Gaming has been a long-time fun hobby of mine since I was eight or nine, around the same time I started writing stories (but that’s for another blog) and I haven’t really stopped at age forty-seven currently. I have taken a break here and there, but never really stopped. I remember starting with the old red books of Dungeons and Dragons, then I moved onto the First Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons playing every edition since than (except for Fourth Edition, but I do own the books.)   For most gaming systems you need just the basic list of supplies starting with Pencil, Pens (I use Fuzion erasable Coloured Pens for creating my characters, for everything else I write with my fountain pens), paper – notebook, drawing it doesn’t matter, just paper to write your character up, if you have a well prepared GM, they will have copies of Blank Character Sheets that you put your characters stats and notes on. The next then you need which should be the first is the rule-book or ...