My favorite things...

Actually, this is only one of them. But love it I do. Over on Neil Gaiman's blog, there's a lot of talk about pens, specifically, older pens, and their various virtues and vices. Me, I love the moderately-pricey Zeb-Roller.I used to get them at the local Dick Blick until they moved to a bigger location and shrunk the pen choices. Now I get them through mail-order which leads to being sent comically large boxes with a handful of pens inside. It's got a nice rubbery grip, a barrel like a Husky Pencil, and the .5 tip (not shown here--those are silver) is dead-on for writing on napkins. Ultimately, ballpoints are best for napkins, but once you get a good sweep of the hand going, these beauties do a fine job too.

I just had to stand on my little mountaintop and declare all this. Back to what you were doing.