Careful thought and a curbside pickup at IKEA have yielded a new and much-improved ink storage system. I’m happiest when my ink collection is arranged so I can directly locate the exact bottle I’m interested in. I’m seeking to cut down time spent hunting through bottles or ink boxes.

My ink collection now extends beyond the capacity of my current ink storage plan. I now find myself hunting through bottles for the one I want more often that I’d like. A new organizing system is in order.

We live in an era of teaching that no longer has snow days. Instead, my school transitions to remote teaching. The days of waking expectantly to inches of snow and a surprise day off may be in my students’ pasts. But my days of waking expectantly to inches of snow and a day of using any pen I have on my desk have only just begun.

I’ve been watching the reboot of Alton Brown’s Good Eats this past week. Brown’s distaste for unitaskers resonates with me. I identify with the lack of patience he has for a cooking tool that only has one use. My focus this week, though, has been thinking through how I use unitasker and multitasker nibs.