For the past year or so, I have pretty much religiously carried an EnerGel pen with me. I never used to be a pen-carrier. I felt like Herb Tarlick as I started carrying a pen -- always looking to close a deal. But, fact is, I fell in love with these pens. But now I have a problem. I am not sure they're still being made.

It's not that these pens write that well. They aren't extraordinarily plush or beautiful. But they do have one cool feature. When you go to clip them over your shirt pocket, if the inky part is still sticking out, it automatically retracts. Now, I have never ruined a shirt with a non-retrected pen but apparently doing so was a fear I carried with me. Because, once I saw these pens, I fell in love and couldn't quit carrying them.

But WalMart no longer has them. I am now carrying a pen with a cap which still saves my shirts but, well, it just isn't as cool as the EnerGel pen.

I need to keep looking.