>> You must hammer those letters hard!

True, I keep people awake in the surrounding cubicles. Somehow, "touch typing" never sank in. I have a two-finger hunt-and-peck method that is far from delicate. maybe I should call it hunt-and-whack.

Maybe the plastic in PC keyboard leys is unusally smooth, or fingertip oils are corrosive, but paint pens and sticky lables come right off.

i only managed to buy 8 more asiatics today,.,.,.wheres my pen?-hope it hasnt run out again

My Sharpie brand permanent marker seems to work better on mini blinds than pencil.

This spring I received 3 types of iris in trade from one person who was SO kind as to put a mini blind marker in the baggie with each separate rhizome. Being as I had the markers, I put them all into one large pot to wait for my eventual planting spot to be ready. When I came back in a couple of months, the pencil had faded off. Now I'll have to wait for bloom to know who's who.