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    Default Do you keep water at your desk?

    A friend said something in a letter that made me wonder this. I keep this at my desk filled with RO water. Comes in handy all the time.
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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    This is what I keep on my desk, it does contain some water!

    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    The only liquid on my desk is a small (closed) container of sumi ink, theres really no space and if i were to chance it, it would most likely end up spilling everywhere. Anything I am drinking (water or hot tea) is usually sitting on the floor. What is RO water?

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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    This is what I keep on my desk, it does contain some water!

    Not exactly what I was asking but nice cup!!
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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    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.
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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    2 glasses. one for drinking and one for well, you know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by caribbean_skye View Post
    The only liquid on my desk is a small (closed) container of sumi ink, theres really no space and if i were to chance it, it would most likely end up spilling everywhere. Anything I am drinking (water or hot tea) is usually sitting on the floor. What is RO water?
    Reverse Osmosis. Water filtered through a membrane for purity, we have a Culligan system. Our water is ok, but we got a good deal so decided to invest. Like distilled but more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by manoeuver View Post
    2 glasses. one for drinking and one for well, you know.
    Not sure I know you well enough for understanding "you know", no offense meant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharmon202 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by caribbean_skye View Post
    The only liquid on my desk is a small (closed) container of sumi ink, theres really no space and if i were to chance it, it would most likely end up spilling everywhere. Anything I am drinking (water or hot tea) is usually sitting on the floor. What is RO water?
    Reverse Osmosis. Water filtered through a membrane for purity, we have a Culligan system. Our water is ok, but we got a good deal so decided to invest. Like distilled but more.
    Hehe, could not figure out what RO stood for, thanks! Drinking water in tis house is boiled and after cooled it goes through the brita pitcher filter. There are also several gallon jugs of distilled water here too, I have a small container of it close to my desk for use with gouache when Im writing with my dip pens.

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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    So wait. I might have missed a step here. What is the water for--cleaning pens or drinking?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharmon202 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by manoeuver View Post
    2 glasses. one for drinking and one for well, you know.
    Not sure I know you well enough for understanding "you know", no offense meant.
    I am shocked. Just shocked. Just kidding.

    Pen stuff. second glass is for pen stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharmon202 View Post
    A friend said something in a letter that made me wonder this. I keep this at my desk filled with RO water. Comes in handy all the time.
    How about you
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    Yep, sure do. Three, in fact. One shot glass for red-tone dippage, one teeny shot-size condiment jar for blue-tone dipping, and a clean pimiento jar for serious prior-to-cleanage soaking.

    Of course my desk is at home, so I get to put whatever I want on it.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

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    Default Re: Do you keep water at your desk?

    I like to have water or coffee, but never keep it on the same table as a computer.

    If we're talking about water for pen cleaning, then the answer is no.

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    Yes, near my desk, on the bookcase beside it, next to my ink cabinet. Two mason jars full at all times for pen cleaning.
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    Wow you all are organized. For pen cleaning i go to the kitchen, fill a short glass with water and clean the pen.
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    Current pen rotation: way too many!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    So wait. I might have missed a step here. What is the water for--cleaning pens or drinking?
    Water for many things for me, but not drinking. Sometimes I just need a drop or two on a cloth to clean ink off a barrel or a misplaced drop on the desk. Just all-round purpose but I do not use it to clean pens at my desk. Though to put some in a small more open container to do a temporary pre-soak of a nib is a good idea.
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    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.
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    Don't keep any water regularly at my desk, though I sometimes have a glass for drinking.

    When I clean my pens, I basically use a plastic cup and do it near the kitchen sink.

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    No water on the desk. Only a go-cup with coffee from the local BP station. Gotta have the caffeine....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    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.

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