Editing The Pen Addict 24/transcript (section)

== Storage Stuff ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm very well, my man. I'm very well. Glad to be back with you this week. Doing another episode. We're going to talk a bit about storage stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah. I got an email from a reader last week, and that was kind of a topic we haven't covered. We've talked about just small storage and portable storage like pen cases, but he was wondering more of a behind-the-scenes look at the mass quantities of pens and how I store them. So we will be talking about that today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Before we get to that, I would like to follow up with you about your portable storage situation. Sure. So what are you using at the moment? Because you bought one of the cases that I have. What is it called?

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Lihid Lab Tefa case. That's it. Pen case.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And are you still using that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did a fair and balanced two-week trial.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That means no, then.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I'm out of it. Yeah. It currently has zero pens in it and is sitting in my pen storage.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a mental thing, honestly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' As in, the fact that you are mental.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Well, that's exactly right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' With that case, so when I go to work, I want to take my favorite pens with me. And, you know, some are nice and expensive. You know, we've got the Vanishing Point and, you know, got Retro 51 and got, you know, my Kaweco AL Sport and some of the nicer pens that I like to use. Yep. And I could not get over the pens constantly rubbing against each other. No telling what was going on in that pen case at night, Michael. Well, but, you know, the way that case is designed, they slot vertically, right? And they're adjacent to each other. There's no separation. They clip onto a strap, essentially, just next to each other.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And every time I opened that case, I would just, like, cringe. I'm like, oh, this is killing me. And, you know, I think two weeks to the day, I went back to my nomadic roller. And that way I can put, like, five of them in their own individual sleeve. And then I can put maybe five more of the ones that I don't care. They get, you know, roll around together and bang up in kind of the open section of the pouch. And I've been able to sleep at night ever since.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this is that, like, holy grail of pen cases that nobody else can buy except you, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That sounds like a good Kickstarter project for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There you go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' To remake that case.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You should do that. People would buy that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I've gotten tons of compliments on that case. And everyone that was able to get one, you know, really enjoys it. But, you know, there's another. And I don't have the nomadic product numbers in front of me. But there's the nomadic tri-fold pocket case. For people like me, there's two kinds of pen cases, right? There's one where you kind of dump everything in and everything just rolls around. And, you know, just kind of a mass of pens in there. Just kind of a big open case. And then you have other pen cases that separate by individual pens. The Lidhead Labs is kind of in between there to where there is some more organization. But the pens are still kind of banging around against each other. There's one called the nomadic tri-fold. And I forget the product number. But that one, in lieu of the nomadic roll case, I recommend the tri-fold a lot for someone who wants to separate their pens individually. I haven't tried one of the – have you seen, like on jet pens and stuff, the roll wrap cases? Like they roll up. It's almost like a larger piece of fabric or leather or something like that.