Nothing worse than a botched willpower recovery roll.

Because not only were you low on willpower when you started, then you end up even lower when you botch. :P I heard back from Binder, and he thinks maybe I'm twisting the pen and need an oblique nib. Which means I may be eating a little crow, but let me say that it tastes better than trying to swallow those emotions when I'm upset. We'll see. I decide to empty out the Taccia, clean it up, put it back in the pen box, and try it some other time when I'm not already upset at another pen. The way the ink was acting in the converter, I'm wondering if a flush with a little soap might help. (I shouldn't say this, and it's probably completely unfair, but I'm starting to wonder if my package missed the pass with the legendary Binder magic wand that it's supposed to get. I know the M200 nib must have been tested because it dropped a blot of ink onto the card it was packed with, but there wasn't the usual writing sample included in the package either.) I did get the Sheaffer tipdip I was going to pwn worked on. Unfortunately I was still a little upset, and ended up cutting the sac short by about a quarter of an inch. I decided to use it anyway, and it seems to be working fine now. It'll be a little short on ink capacity, but that's OK. Soaked up water OK (and STILL had green ink in the feed after going through the ultrasonic a full 9 times. WTF?!) Once it dries out, I'll fill it with the J. Herbin Bleu Nuit I took out of the Taccia, plus some extra. And I also get a sac put into one of the mini pens, so once it dries out from its own water test, I'll just have to pop it into the body, give the little guy a polish, and he'll be done. Hopefully tomorrow will be more productive. Meh.