音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

This (normal) weekend will be filled with chilling autumn rain, and it's going to be subzero from today. But I like it.
Although there's not much sound from the rain drops, some songs in minor would fit perfectly to this, some Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Amano Tsuki, "Kinema Mosaic", Silent Hill...

And that came at a perfect time.

Silent Hill 2 is getting a remake! Though I don't like to see such realistic cockroaches, and... James looks like in his 40s. It's much much more exciting than the news of Biohazard 2, or even Demon's Souls remake. A great game worthy of a careful remake. Just hope the sound effect remains since I'm so used to that in the PS2 version. Rearrangement of the soundtrack doesn't always turn out well, like Demon's Souls, especially when the original version is already epic.
The bad part is that it won't be on PS4, but I'm positive that the current PS5 shortage won't last forever. Scalpers should be nuked by Russia.
Anyway, I have the feeling it will be another nightmare for me to reach 10/10 stars. If the remake doesn't feature auto-aiming it can be near impossible.

Weird enough that I don't write by hand so much, yet I love pens, especially fountain pens. After a long fight of getting used to a super heavy (48.8g) pen, I gave up as it makes my finger muscles exhausted. More severely, it skips badly on many types of paper I use daily (good/cheap notebooks and regular printing paper). That pen has a supposed-to-be-great German iridium nib, but I suspect the whole pen is made in Germany. Anyway, it doesn't gain my favourite, plus the whole pen is ugly shiny golden. I'm glad I decided to forget it (it's a little hard to do so as it may be on the expensive side) and move on.

I have a Pilot Metropolitan for many years, but it has a fine nib. It works perfectly but sometimes I miss the feeling of writing with unsharpened pencils, because of the thick strokes. Therefore, I got my second Pilot Kaküno last week, of a medium nib. It suits me better, as my hand tends to write smaller with a fine nib even my brain doesn't want that.
Of the usual superb made-in-Japan quality, it writes perfectly, with no skipping on all types of paper I tested, and the stroke thickness is pleasant.
Plus, it's light -- 13 g only for Kaküno -- no effort needed to hold it at all! While Metropolitan is 26.3 g, I personally like Metropolitan in this aspect. Kaküno may be too light to adjust the balance unless I put the cap to the end.

However, here comes one question. I bought some Con-40 converts at the same time. On the packing, it states the maximal ink capacity is in the middle of the cylinder. Fine, but I also wonder why is that? What if I fill the cylinder full? Of course, it's totally possible and not hard to do at all. With just some extra 0.4 ml of ink it won't physically damage the converter, would it?
Some googling didn't bring me a solid answer. All I found was about how to fill it fully -- and how many people who too lazy/stupid to figure it out themselves.
So google doesn't know the answer either, the only solution would be to ask the Pilot designer. I stopped there, I'm not bothered to not fill it full, as I enjoy the process of sucking ink into it.

Another recent purchase I'd like to note down here. A set of gel highlighters, aka bible highlighters, as described by many different brands.
Some spin-off thought was that there're actually people reading the bible! I'm indeed surprised.

Of course, I didn't buy them for the bible.

I just hope they add some fresh look to this antique German book. (so I can finish it!)