This ain't no No. 2 pencil

Laurel and I were downtown shopping today, and stopped into World Lux, Seattle's fountain pen and fancy watch store, and despite the fact that I was dressed in flip-flops, shorts, and an ESPN eat/sleep/watch T-shirt, I got pretty great service (I guess people in Seattle's higher-end shops have learned to deal with people who look like bums but can afford not to).

I finally got a real-life look at the Mont Blanc Leonardo Sketch Pen (actually, it is a mechanical pencil) I mentioned in an earlier post.

It was impressive; quite heavy and solid, incredibly thick pencil lead (5.5 mm as opposed to 0.5 mm in a typical mechanical pencil). Plus, it was a "bargain" at $315 ... so yeah, I ended up buying one.

Still looking for a Mont Blanc Dostoyevsky fountain pen; however, at more than $1000, probably not something I'd actually buy on a whim.