My children are pencil magnets, so I haven't bought a pencil in years. They pick them up in parking lots and in hallways at school and who knows where else.

Plus, I heard a noise one night and snuck into my son's room with a flashlight, and discovered that the darned things breed in the bottom of his school backpack. It's not a pretty sight, as it is a very mechanical process. They're quite wooden in their expressions.

I pulled out the camera for a digital image of one of our pencil boxes, but realize now that I haven't installed all of the camera stuff in the new computer yet. I'm busy with other stuff right now so you'll have to wait for visual evidence of our pencils.

SRS