I guess I'll spend the afternoon tidying and writing instead. Got a short story in the works. Did I tell you guys I have yet another typewriter? This one's a desktop model (an Olympia SG3) -- not a portable. For reference, a picture with my up-to-now biggest typewriter, which is the same make and of approximately the same vintage. They go well together!
It's...substantial, to say the least. VERY nice to type on, though. The portable typewriters are a bit of a compromise, and although the portable in the shot (an Olympia SM9) was kind of the equivalent of a 17 inch notebook in its day (i.e. a luggable rather than a road warrior), it still doesn't have the wonderful solid feel and the nifty extra features that big beast does. I like it a lot. May get rid of some of the smaller once, except that really cool old one with the glass keys. And the one that matches the big one. And the little green Hermes I used for last NaNoWriMo. And the old black glass-keyed Royal that doesn't currently completely work, but which was free, so I couldn't pass it up. Aw, dang. I'm doomed to be surrounded by those little suitcases, I think.