A writing instrument, which has an inner and outer writing element with separate writing medium reservoirs. The event data reflects one or more application events generated by at least one hosted application. This modification is in response to a change in a reference voltage supplying the non-volatile memory array from a previous reference voltage level to a temporary MRR voltage level. Likewise, if conditions are unfavorable the system will decrease cycle speed of one or more of the mail processing components of the system in increments until an optimal speed is reached.