I am now offi­cially over the Space Pen.  See A Let­ter To My Pen for my list of gripes and com­plaints.  The new pen, a Cross Ion, is great.  It is a bit more chunky than I’d like, but it writes well and has a good visual indi­ca­tion of how much ink is left.  Plus, both the pen and the ink car­tridges come in a vari­ety of col­ors.  I have a silver/black one with black ink and a silver/red one with pur­ple ink (so my writ­ing can look like that of a 14 year old girl, of course!) Here it is in com­par­i­son to the space pen:

They are about the same length closed, both quite usable when open, with the Ion being more fat.

In unre­lated pho­tos, this Nerf gun is sit­ting on a shelf out­side my office…

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