Editing The Pen Addict 181/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Subscription ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, it's going to be a good episode when, just as I say, the moment that I say, welcome to The Pen Addict, episode 181, I had a little tap on my Apple Watch and I looked down and it said, I had an email and the subject line was, field notes, colours, subscription shipment notification. Like, I'm not kidding. It was as I began speaking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it already time for that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we're about to ship the fourth and final instalment of your field notes, colours, subscription. The address we are shipping it to is below. Contact us ASAP if you need to fix anything. Wow. And they've changed the way their emails look. They're really sweet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, I'll have to go in and look. That's, uh... Maybe time's just flying and it seems like it was about a two-month... Maybe the... I don't know. Maybe... I know they want to get them out before Christmas, right? That's a big deal. So, they want to get them out in time for you to order more for Christmas, which I understand. And it seems like the Shenandoah was maybe like... I don't know. There's no official date when they come out, right? But it seemed like it was maybe like a week or two. It seemed like people were waiting like just a hair longer. So, maybe it was a short timeframe. Shorter turnaround between this one. So, I will check my email. I think my sub is up. I think this is my renewal. I think this is my renewal sub. So, I'll have to renew it up on... As soon as we're done with the show, I will check my email. But that's great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, Joe in the chat room just said that he got an email saying that it's coming in to check. And I got that email too. So, there was... I had an email over the weekend saying that it's nearly time. Make sure you check your address. And also reminding me that my subscription is also up for renewal. But this one is my shipment notification.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's what the subject line says anyway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But yeah. So, it's saying my order should arrive in the mail within the next two to four weeks. My hope would be... I don't know if this is the case. But my hope would be that they're just getting ahead of international shipping. Yeah. And they're sending it out to UK and Europe and everywhere else first, maybe? That's what I'll do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, maybe so. Plus, they also lose a little bit of time next week with the Thanksgiving holiday. You know, there's a couple days delayed where the post office is shut down, that kind of stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. We'll see. But that is good news. But yeah, I'm going to be renewing my subscription like next week or something. Yep. Just going to pay myself and then I'll be renewing it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool, cool, cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about Field Notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So, this is what happens when we have a guest post. We were talking about this in the pre-show. We can't catch up on all the things we want to talk about sometimes when we have guests. And this one, you were dying to talk about. I was dying to talk about. So, what have you been holding on to for these past couple weeks?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. So, I wanted to make sure we could give this the time to talk about it, which was why I didn't bring it up last week. But the incredible Ginny at Three Staples, she sent me some of the Nixon Field Notes. Do you remember that she was going to help me out and get me a couple of those packs sent over, right? Yes. So, I have those here, by the way. I'm burying the lead now. But yeah, I have those. Do you have

'''Brad Dowdy:''' a set of these? I do not have those. They look really nice, though. I love the colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The colors are really good. It's like a blue one and like a dark brown one and like a standard craft, basically. And it's grid, plain, and lined.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I didn't realize that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And they've got like kind of some of Nixon's story on the back as a company. Gotcha. And they're a limited edition of 5,000.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's the information on the inside. So, I like the blue one a lot. And I like the dark, like the chocolatey brown color one a lot as well. Yeah. That's great. Nice ones to fit in my collection. But what the real special thing I got, and anybody that follows me on Instagram will have seen this, and I'll put a link in the show notes to the Instagram picture. Ginny had customized two field notes craft for me. And one of them was one of the, what was the lecture set edition called?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know what I'm talking about, right? I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm blanking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I had this problem the other day as well. I couldn't remember what this edition was. The chat room will tell us in a second. The one where you got the sheet and you could put your own words onto the blank notebooks. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I got one of those, which says Myke was right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Dry transfer edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Dry transfer edition. There we go. Who got that in the chat room? Cindy. Cindy plus one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Plus one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is why you should be in the chat room, by the way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah, I got a Myke was right field notes and another craft with the Relay FM logo printed on the back. And I love these. These are my two favorite field notes books. I was just, I think I screamed when I opened the pack.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was about to ask, did you die when you opened these? Because I could see that. This is amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I was just so thrilled. Maybe more than anything that she used one of her dry transfer editions for me. Like, that is a really, really nice thing to do. So, I mean, like, Ginny is the best. And she had a really nice note for me in the pack as well. And if you haven't been to Three Staples, if you don't follow Three Staples on Instagram, you're missing out. So, you should go to her site and all that great stuff. But, man, I was just so, so, so thrilled to get these. They are so fantastic. And they are my most liked photo on Instagram.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, really?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That happened very, very quickly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, so now is the big question.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Are you going to use them?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I don't think I will.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I think that's the right choice. There's certain editions that, I mean, you don't have to use any of them if you don't want to, but, you know, we're big proponents of using them. And, you know, you know, I've used some of the older, rarer editions and things like that. But when someone takes the time out to make you something special like this, I think it's pretty cool to just like have it on display and, you know, show it off. You know, like when our friend, friend of the show, Ben Kwok made the Fiend notes for us. Yep. You remember those, the orange ones that he hand stitched and all that stuff. I mean, that's just too cool that we have listeners that do that kind of stuff for us. It's pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, exactly. Like it's the same, like with my rarer editions, I always keep one of them, just like one single. And like these are two completely single books. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And I have to say there was this little part of me that was like, man, that Relay FM logo looks good on a field notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's kind of perfect for that, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, maybe we can do, maybe we can work on some other things. You and I.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I think I would like that a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll work on some magic.