You need a good pen and a notebook

If you don't have a good pen and a notebook of some kind to record your thoughts, do yourself a favor and go buy both.

Some suggestsions:

Notebooks - Gotta go with the Moleskine

Pens - This one is harder so I'll give a couple of options

• S.T. Dupont (Always a classic)
• Pelikan (one of my favorites)
• Waterman (yeah...)

Truly there are so many more pens out there that if I mentioned all of the good ones, this post would be days long. Also, to get the true joy of writing with a good pen, it must be a fountain pen.

I saw one other pen that bears mention. Last week I was in my favorite local pen shop, Dromgoole's and Larry brought out the new limited edition Divine Proportion or Divina Proporzione pen from Visconti and all I can say is wow, I want one. Now!

If you want to go visit Larry and check out any of these pens, his store is at 2515 Rice Boulevard in Houston.

Bookmooch

Found a new site that I really like. I haven't done any transactions yet, but I think the idea is pretty damned cool. Plus, I haven't updated this blog in about 100 years, so this gives me an excuse to post something.

Soooo..... everybody go check out http://www.bookmooch.com

The basic idea is that you list books on there and give them away to people who want them, in exchange, you can "mooch" books off of other people. I love the idea, its based on a point system kind of like Barterbee.