Editing The Pen Addict 132/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I posted this on the Field Notes board. And, you know, most people thought I was crazy. Some people agreed in that. But have you ever, has there ever been an edition where you've just like, I can't use this any longer? And that's what I ended up finding out with this edition. I don't know what it is. It's such a beautiful edition. I think it was maybe the ivory paper was getting to me. And I don't know, I just, I was not enjoying writing in it. So when it got to that point where I wasn't enjoying writing in it, I didn't want to write in it. Well, that's kind of a problem because I need to write in it, and there's things I need to note down. But I was kind of like, every time I would bring it out, I'd be like, oh, okay, ambition edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's a shame. So I just said forget it and threw it in the stash and just picked up a new fresh notebook, which I went with the day game. The white cover with the red one, which is a great one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You've got to be running low on those now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I've got one or two left after this one that I just started. But yeah, have you ever found an edition? Have you ever started an edition that you just could not finish? A couple. I'm done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A couple, actually. American Tradesman. I can't do it. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You made the, wait, America the beautiful or the?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no. American Tradesman's the legend, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, traveling salesman.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Traveling salesman. Yeah, brown with the green paper. I can understand that. American Tradesman's the beautiful blue corrugated.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's one of the, oh, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I actually don't know if I have any of those. I think I do. I think I had one at least. I know I had one. Yeah, that's a beautiful set. Yeah, no, it's the traveling salesman. I don't like the traveling salesman. And the gradient ones, what were they called? Cold Horizon?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cold Horizon.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I did finish it, but begrudgingly. I did not enjoy writing in those. Now, I've seen a lot of people, including Stephen, say that the cover is what bothers them. I like the way the cover cracks. The paper, it feels like I'm writing on glass. Yeah, it's a little. Didn't like that paper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's almost like it's coated. So, that one came up repeatedly in the discussion yesterday about my post about stopping. So many people said, yeah, Cold Horizon was the one where I just stopped. And that was one that I finished begrudgingly. I finished up one book, and I forced myself to finish it. So, yeah. So, I thought that was interesting. I was just curious if there was any others that you had just, you know, I can't finish this and just time to move on to something else. So, I've got two sealed packs of Ambition. I'll just leave stashed away. I'd given away another three-pack to a friend here in town. And then I have one ledger book I'm going to ship off to someone in the Facebook group.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I've not cracked mine open. I'm probably going to give out the, like, Imparts, one of the packs. It was my girlfriend. I told her about it. We were, she is a paper planner person. And there's a book company, not book company, a bookstore called Waterstones in the UK.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure, I've heard you talk about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And every year she buys a planner from Waterstones. It's just a thing that she likes to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is she a Filofax person? Like, specifically the brand Filofax?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, it's purely just like a date planner.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, because that's, Filofax's are big all over the world, but I don't know if they originated in Britain, but they're huge, huge in the UK for some reason.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they really are. I had one when I was a kid.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, someone can tell me in the chat room if that's a British company or originated from there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because they make kids editions of Filofax's in certain themes. But yeah, so I mentioned to her that there was a day planner, basically. And she was very interested in it. And I said I'd give it to her because I wasn't going to use it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, and then we were talking about, my color subscription has run out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I don't know what to do yet. I will most likely refresh it. But I'll probably wait to refresh for when the next books come up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Next one comes out. Yeah, you have to do it. You have to wait until they announce the next one to renew it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because they sent me an email to tell me to renew and said you'll be starting with the ambition. I'm like, well, that'd be wasted then, wouldn't it? Because I just got it. Yeah. So, yeah. They should let you renew now for the next one. I think there is a period of time where if you start one, I think maybe after the current edition sells out, you start it and it starts with the next.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, but they're not selling out anymore. Are they not? Mm-mm. I mean, not in the first few weeks or so. They're usually not. They'll sell out, but usually not before the next one's announced.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Unexposed sold out, which is a big surprise. Yeah. See, I would not have expected that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would have gone right back to the... I was about to go... The choices after I punted on this ambition edition was grab another Unexposed because I really like those. But then I had these day games sitting there, so I went for that. So the chat room came through Mikey Reak and Corey Bender. The file effects company was founded in London in 1921. So it makes sense.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Makes sense. I think there's a bunch of retailers that have Unexposed still. Oh, yeah. Jet pens. Jet pens actually still have arts and sciences in stock.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, I saw that because they were pushing them for a Christmas thing, which I thought was a good idea. That was on my Christmas list to give to people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I need to check some UK dealers now to see if they have arts and sciences.