Editing The Pen Addict 414/transcript (section)

== Shipping Update ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So basically, if it doesn't get caught in customs, I'll have it by next week. If it does, then it will be the week after. That would be my expectation. We're just having so many mail problems right now. Sure. We get a coffee, we have a coffee subscription, right? So we have coffee come to the house like pretty much every week. And we have one company that we use called Pact. They're about every seven to eight days or something like that. They'll send a new bag. And then I recently found another company called, I think, like, Gustatory. And a lot of these coffee subscription companies here in the UK, at least, they roast their own stuff, right? Right. But this other company, Gustatory, they buy beans from like, renowned European roasteries in small batches. And so it's like just as a variety thing. But the whole point of what I'm trying to say here is, we are currently expecting like five bags of coffee to arrive because they're all backed up and this keeps happening, right? Like we get none for a few weeks and then it all arrives. So and then we're good for a little while longer. So I guess any day now, our mailbox is going to just be rammed to the gills with coffee beans.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's how like, I didn't have that bad of an experience. I actually had a great experience with my bung box pen, the Fujiyama Blue, but it got all the way here to Atlanta. And was scheduled for a delivery day on Tuesday, and then didn't show up. It's like, you know, check this, check the tracking and it's like, okay, scheduled today by the end of the day, and it didn't show. So you go and look the next day, it's like, oh, yeah, we're delayed. And, you know, that was, there was heavy protests that day in Atlanta, you know, rightfully so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I was like, you know, it just, you know, there was just extenuating circumstances. And like the whole world is an extenuating circumstance right now. So shipping is just taking a while. But I have more shipping to talk about today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So just quickly, you don't have the Fujiyama Blue yet. It's still on the way?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, no, it's here. Oh. It came after the show last week. So I've had it almost a week now. It's literally clipped to my shirt pocket. Oh, it's fantastic. Good. Like it's exactly what I want in a limited edition sailor type of pen, right? It's a unique colorway. It's like a blue translucent barrel. The blue is, the barrel is more translucent than I noticed in pictures, which I like, I prefer. And then it's got solid light blue finials. And of course, the wonderful rod in Mount Fuji in the top cap. And it's, the metal section's great. It has the ink tells more on the nib. It comes with a medium fine nib. And I inked it up with Sailor Sky High and I've been using it ever since. So like, I adore it. Like this is, this is why I try not to buy all the things. So when there's one that really jumps, I can, I can go for it. And this one is, I'm happy I did.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And then you don't feel so bad, right? Because you're not spending lots of money very frequently. You're spending lots of money way less.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You're still spending lots of money. You're just spreading it out more. Spread that out. If something comes out tomorrow, I'll go, wow, that pin is perfect for me, but I just got this one and I don't need that one. Right. So, you know, and then you end up with too many pins and then you just have to sell them off anyway. And, you know, it's a, it's a whole, it's a whole cycle. We'll talk about, we need to have a whole show on consumption and consumerism one day. Even though there's, there's no definitive way to have that conversation. Right. So, yeah, it's, you know, I try to, I try to manage it, but, you know, I spend a lot of money on pins and stationery. There's, there's no two ways about it. It's my, it's my escape. It's my hobby. It's my job. It's my love. And that's where my, my extra funds go to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I like Matsujuyama Blue.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Very nice. You were saying about shipping then. I cut you off. Yeah. That's probably good. You have a good update?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I'm dreading. Okay. Something, Myke. Okay. Not in a bad way, in a good way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you dread something in a good way? Is that possible? I don't think it is. No. I think you said something and realized you shouldn't say it that way. And now you're trying to like, eject a sea out of it. But it's too late.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I'm seeing the light of what the Kickstarter fulfillment is going to be for the, the retro 51 pin. And I'm going, wow, that's a lot of pins I'm going to have to ship. And the reason these thoughts are in my head is because the pins are done. The pins are done. I can't believe it. I can't either. I kind of can. I kind of can. I don't know. It's like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just mean, there's some other stuff we've done. Of course, there's a different reasons.