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This photo is from the Wikipedia page on ballpoint pens. I love it.

Personally, I prefer fountain pens to ballpoint because they write smoother, but they are also much messier. I’ve had so many fountain pens explode in my bag that now I use ballpoints almost exclusively. Just because I feel like I have no choice. Ha.

Wikipedia does say that the ballpoint pen is the world’s most used writing instrument. I wonder when that is going to chang

e to phones or computers. We’re probably several years away from that.

My favorite thing about today is that closeup photo of that pen.

What’s Tomorrow?

June 11th

• National Making Life Beautiful Day*
• National Corn on the Cob Day
• National German Chocolate Cake Day