It arrived!

OK, I now have my new Wacom 6″ by 8″ “Platinum” Intuos2 tablet. It’s nice to be using a pen again.

They keep making the pens better. Here’s mine:

but if anyone wants to treat me nice for my birthday (coming up in three months) I’d really really like to have this:

…which looks the same, but it’s actually got a brushed metal barrel instead of a plastic barrel made to look metallic. I can live without the eraser so long as I get that nice heavy feel in my hand. Yummmmm!