Do you keep water at your desk?

[writingrav]

Wow, just realized how crappy my desk looked, sorry about that. I am planning on making one sometime in the next year, developing the plan in my head, all I have so far.

Nah, it just looks well loved.

[Hawk]

No water on the desk. Only a go-cup with coffee from the local BP station. Gotta have the caffeine....

we gotta get you some better coffee.

Starbucks etc. is too expensive, besides there are none in corn country. Some years ago we got a stoplight instead of the four way stop signs and us locals still refer it to 'the four way stop'.
I justify spending less on coffee and more on fountain pens. Besides, a caffene fix doesn't have to cost a lot of money in order for me to function.

[FredRydr]

Wow you all are organized. For pen cleaning i go to the kitchen, fill a short glass with water and clean the pen.

Ditto.

The water is limestone well water with an ultraviolet light for killing microbes. The light failed for a year when we didn't know it; we all lived and grew stronger. The taste is great, and all other waters (stream, well, city or bottled) are judged against it. And it even cleans pens!

Fred

[Cob]

I have just drunk some! Water straight from the tap; to steal a line from a favourite song, "been drinking it all my life and I ain't dead yet" (same more or less, goes for the cigs actually).

My pens are lucky; they get cleaned in the kitchen in the same excellent water that I drink!

Cob

[sharmon202]

Wow you all are organized. For pen cleaning i go to the kitchen, fill a short glass with water and clean the pen.

Ditto.

The water is limestone well water with an ultraviolet light for killing microbes. The light failed for a year when we didn't know it; we all lived and grew stronger. The taste is great, and all other waters (stream, well, city or bottled) are judged against it. And it even cleans pens!

Fred

I grew up drinking hard old well water, minerals add some taste ever had Dasani? Thought IN water is not nearly as hard and limestone-y as KS. So I am understanding we increased our immunity as well then? Great! What would I have thought when I was a young adult if someone had told me the country would be buying bottles of water and tea to drink. Mom had that at home for almost free.

[VertOlive]

Sending Hawk a Death Wish coffee sample as a tuck-in....

[cwent2]

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Guilty - I also have a few liquid detergent measuring cups I use when cleaning pens and an old Mason Jar for waste water......

I know OCD

Cw

[Lady Onogaro]

Yes, actually. I have a small jam jar that sits on a shelf with clear tap water. I'll dip a pen in it, if the nib has dried a bit, to start it up again. Or it's there if I want to flush a pen in a jiffy, etc. Just a habit I've gotten into.

Me, too. Well, it's not a jam jar--it's an old Lamy ink bottle with the pen wipes in the bottom.

[Lady Onogaro]

Sending Hawk a Death Wish coffee sample as a tuck-in....

I am going to have to find this for my husband. He mixes Community Coffee (a Cajun favorite), and expresso in a thing called a red eye. I'm a tea drinker, myself.

[VertOlive]

I am going to have to find this for my husband. He mixes Community Coffee (a Cajun favorite), and expresso in a thing called a red eye. I'm a tea drinker, myself.

Well be warned. Death Wish can contain up to SIX times the caffeine in a regular cup, depending how it's brewed.

[Hawk]

I am going to have to find this for my husband. He mixes Community Coffee (a Cajun favorite), and expresso in a thing called a red eye. I'm a tea drinker, myself.

Well be warned. Death Wish can contain up to SIX times the caffeine in a regular cup, depending how it's brewed.

Maybe that is what Sweetnightingale need for a kickstarter.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I am going to have to find this for my husband. He mixes Community Coffee (a Cajun favorite), and expresso in a thing called a red eye. I'm a tea drinker, myself.

Well be warned. Death Wish can contain up to SIX times the caffeine in a regular cup, depending how it's brewed.

That would be almost as much as one cup of Bewley tea!

[Scrawler]

Bewley's Irish Breakfast tea. One of the worlds best teas. VertOlive needs to take a look at Kick Ass or 454 HP. https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/store/coffee

[Avalona]

To clean my pens? Nah, I go to the bathroom to do that, even though maybe I should have some water for pen cleaning.

But for drinking, there's usually a mug of tea or coffee and/or a pint glass of unsweetened iced tea or flavoured water. But at least I have never accidentally drank the cleaning water, so that's good.

[Armstrong]

Found that baby food jars make excellent water containers and nib soaking containers. So we get a jar, my dog loves the baby food, and I keep the jar.

[Sandy Fry]

If I am sitting at my desk in my home office I usually have a cup of green tea with me ( usually Sencha ). Never clean my pens at my desk but I have a little round container ( about 2" in diameter ) with a lid that has a piece of wet sponge in it for those occasional hard starting pens or to wipe a nib on.

David

[Paddler]

I keep a 1 - oz. Nalgene jar with distilled water on my desk. It is for rinsing dip pens and for grinding sumi ink.

I use my fountain pens enough that cleaning is not necessary.

[ac12]

I never did, but not I am.
I have an old ink well that I fill with water, to dip the tip of the nib of a pen where the ink does not flow. The ink dried up in the nib/feed, and the dip liquifies the ink and gets the ink to flow, and I can write. This happens with pens that I leave too long between writing with them.

[scrivelry]

Tell me more of this tea...

[Titivillus]

The only thing you might think about is that RO water isn't quite a pH of 7 so there can be issues with metal parts becoming corroded. At work we checked the mohs of the water and had all pvc piping for the process pipe.