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== Unusual Pens ==


'''Anna Reinert:''' Yeah, they're really good. But the next one that's on my list is a pen that sort of speaks to what we were talking about, like pens that work great for our specialty purpose that I don't think anybody ever really talks about. And it's the Pilot Envelope Address Writing Jelly Ink Pen. I personally like the extra fine. The fine is a little broad, strangely enough, for a Japanese pen. But it's an oil-based gel ink pen that is waterproof when it's dry. And it is super slick on paper. But it gives you a really nice fine point and is great anytime you actually need to make sure something's not going to bleed when it gets wet, like addressing an envelope or writing your return address on an envelope. So you can run out of ink in those really fast. But if you write letters, like as often as I do, I tend to use it to address the envelope just to make sure that should the mail get wet or it hangs out of somebody's mailbox, it's not going to bleed ink all over everything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's perfect. Two things on that pen. One, the black ink is pitch black. It is super dark. Number two, that is one of the coolest ugly barrels I have ever seen. I love the barrel of this pen. I just love the design of this pen. Totally.

'''Anna Reinert:''' It has Japanese writing all over it. I have no idea what it says. No idea. But it is, yeah, it's a white barrel with like red and blue lettering all over it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I just love the feel of it. I mean, it's just this, it's just a, you know, basic plastic barrel pen. But something about that pen, I really, really like the design of.

'''Anna Reinert:''' And every once in a while, I, you know, like it's the, it's the thing that I add to my JetPens cart to get over $25.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That one more thing.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I'm like, I'm sure I need another one. Absolutely. And occasionally they'll be out of the extra fine and I'll order a fine. And I'm always like, darn it, this thing is too wide.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And that's the thing I have noticed about that pen. It's, yeah, only, I can only use the extra fine on that one because of the, I don't know what it is with the sizing. It may just be the ink properties too that are, that make the really wide lines. But great pen. Good, good call on that one.

'''Anna Reinert:''' It is a good pen. And, you know, the last one is I really like the gel multi pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I, I use a Uniball style fit and a Zebra Sarasa pre-fill every day. Those are the two pens that sit on my desk and are my favorites if I know I'm going to a meeting because I have colors. Like you sit in a meeting long enough and it's like, you can really, you know, if you sketch note, you've got a bunch of colors to play with. If you just want to be able to like underline something in a bright color or if you want to make really funny pictures of the people in the meeting. But yeah, and I, both of those and I use them all the time. And I know at some point you had said something about one of them. If you let it sit too long and the ink sort of dried out or you had trouble getting it going.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Coleto actually does that.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Oh, the Coleto. Well, that's not one in my list.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Part of it is I think both the Uniball style fit and the Zebra Sarasa pre-fills. I went for the ones that had like the five color option. I'm like, I want as many in here as I can get. But so I've got four colors plus a pencil, plus the 0.5 pencils. Oh, cool. In both of mine that I have. And I actually, to be honest, I think I have several of the Uniball style fits. I just, I keep buying them. And they're not, I mean, they're, they're just a plain plastic barrel. They're pretty wide because they're the five barrel. So they're pretty substantial. But, you know, you've got, you've got multicolored. So you can have your true stayed black or blue or blue black. And then you can have red and orange and purple and whatever other color you want in there. And I also means if I'm in a long meeting, I'm not going to run out of ink.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Because they do kind of go through cartridges pretty fast.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. You can on those, on the gel multi-pins for sure. And that's a, that's a good point. I didn't even think about that. I was such a hardcore Coleto user for years and years and years. And that kind of just dropped off the radar for me. I think maybe I need to refresh my refills because I have, I have barrels. I probably have 10 Coleto barrels laying around, but I need a, I need a refill update and get me, get me back on the, back on the bandwagon for the gel multi-pins. But that's excellent. Cool. Cool. Well, awesome. I'm glad we did that because it, I don't know. It just goes to show how many great pins and products are out there. And it's, it's funny how like attached I get to some of these older products. Like if I haven't used it in a while and I go break out, you know, some random pin that I haven't used in a while, but I know it's a good pin. It's such a great experience for me. I don't know. I'm silly that way, but I guess that's why I write a blog about pins. Right.

'''Anna Reinert:''' But that's okay. I'm thinking, you know what, this is making me think that we need to have our very own version of throwback Thursday. Okay. Where we sort of either you, if you've never written a review about an old favorite, I think it's time we, we pulled some out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like that idea.

'''Anna Reinert:''' All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's a good idea.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I'll finally write my pilot precise review if anybody cares.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, awesome. Ana, I really appreciate you coming on and it's always a pleasure and, you know, filling in for Myke this week, but you're welcome on here any day, any time, any hour.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Anyway, thank you so much. It's always so much fun to do this show. And, um, the only bummer is that it means I can't listen to it tomorrow because I will have already heard it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh no, I still go, I still go back and listen, um, just to kind of see, you know, if I catch something, I don't know that I missed the first time or I sometimes, you know, like I made a mistake last week. I, uh, I called, what did I say? I said the TWSBI night sky edition when I was talking about the TWSBI rock one time, I was like, I don't even remember saying that during the show. But when I listened to it after, it's like, I can't believe I just said that, but no,

'''Anna Reinert:''' everybody knew what you meant.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks for having, thanks. Thanks for having me on.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Anytime. You can come on your show anytime.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thanks. I appreciate that. So why don't you tell, why don't you tell everyone where they can find, uh, more of your wonderful writing?

'''Anna Reinert:''' Um, I can be found at wellappointeddesk.com. Um, you can, uh, talk to me on Twitter at well, a P P T desk, um, and app.net. I am at a N a.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. And you can find me at pen addict.com or as Myke likes to remind me, you can also find me at the pen addict.com. And, uh, you can find me on Twitter at dowdyism, D O W D Y I S M. And we will have the show notes at five by five dot TV, TV slash pen addict slash one Oh nine. And, uh, this'll be a good one to check out all the notes on. We've got, uh, lots of cool stuff we talked about. So thanks Anna for joining me and we will talk to you soon.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad.

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