Editing The Pen Addict 148/transcript (section)

== Shopping Lists ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Secondly, and Anna, this is for you. So, you're worried about spending too much money. Are you making a list, or are you a no-list person for shopping at the pen show? What do you think?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I have started a list, only so that I don't forget sort of my, like, there's a couple things I really want to look for. So, I kind of set a goal to do those things first, and if there's still money left over, or I don't find the exact thing that I'm looking for, then I can kind of go off the rails a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I currently have not got any lists, and I haven't even set a budget yet. So, my feeling is I will set a budget, I just need to work that out. But I've decided that I'm probably not going to get a list, and what I'm going to do is get, it's just basically buy what Brad tells me to buy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, if I might see some things that I like, but then I'm going to say to you, and be like, Brad, I'm here, what shall I buy? You know? This is the service that you can require from a man such as Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, and I'll be happy to provide that service to anyone in need. And so, what I did, the first Pen Show I went to, I had a list, and I had a budget, and I found pretty quickly that the list went out the window, because I'd never been before. I didn't know what everyone kind of carried. I didn't know, you know, things I would be able to find, things I wouldn't be able to find, things like that. Second Show I went to, I went with no list, but just kind of a general idea of some things I wanted to look for and see what happened, and a budget. The budget's definitely a good thing. The list is definitely good for just kind of checking some things out, but I've found both times, I've gone, I've gone way off the list, because you just run into things that look really interesting or something you hadn't thought about. And so, a list is good for ideas.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just don't feel like you're going to be able to be strict on your list. That's certainly, certainly what I have found.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, when you're shopping around. There's also going to be probably two, three vendors there doing work, like nib work, repair work, things like that. Do you have, either of y'all have any plans for that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, what are you going to, what do you want to do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to bring my, my Edison that I had custom made, and I don't know what I want done to it specifically, but I will probably try and just describe it. It just feels a little too scratchy and a little too dry for me. Okay. It's a, I think it's a 1.1 italic nib, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, I want it, there's something about it, it just doesn't feel quite right. Sure. So, I want to, I want to, I really, really love, love this pen, but I don't use it enough because it's not, it doesn't feel as good as I would want it to. So, I'm probably going to, going to try and get something like that done as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. What about you, Anna?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I don't think I have any pens with nibs worthy of having them. Most of my pens are under, were under $100, so, unless I buy something at the event that I feel like could, could use a nib tuning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's also a possibility. Yeah, so, that's, if I have any recommendation, if, for anyone coming, for you, Myke, for myself, is if you're getting nib or repair work done, you want to do that first thing. At least, you want to get in the vendor's queues to do that because a lot of times you'll get in their queue about 10 o'clock in the morning and it'll be about 2 o'clock in the afternoon before your turn is ready. You know, most of them will take a phone number they can text you when they're ready for you to bring your pen over and things like that and it's probably best to bring those pens un-inked. Like, for Myke, that won't be a problem because you're probably not going to travel with it inked.

'''Myke Hurley:''' you know, obviously I'm going on a flight on Saturday. I just took all of the fountain pens out of my bag and replaced them with, like, rollerballs

'''Brad Dowdy:''' because I'm not,

'''Myke Hurley:''' there will be no ink in any of my fountain pens when I travel. Just not going to do it. Oh, I meant to say, I meant to bring this up. You know, on last week's show when you mentioned about the, um, the Nexus, is it the Nexus fountain pen? Yeah. You said about how they had cartridges in them and the cartridges exploded. How did that happen? Yeah. Huh? You said something about pressure, huh? Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' See? I'm with you. You're not going to get an argument out of me. Good. Yeah. Science.

'''Ana Reinert:''' That's probably more because it, it went underneath the plane and not in the pressurized cabin.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, like, when,

'''Ana Reinert:''' when you ship, when you ship packages, they go in the bulk, which is not pressurized, which is why they exploded.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, what if we lose pressure in the cabin? Well,

'''Ana Reinert:''' then I think you have bigger things to worry about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So how many inked, inked pins are you bringing, Anna?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Some. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' No, I'm going to bring some and I, I don't ever take the ink out of them. I leave them in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Put them in the same

'''Ana Reinert:''' quart-sized plastic bag with everything else that qualifies as a liquid.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Well, good. They look at me funny,

'''Ana Reinert:''' but.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll get a full, full report upon your arrival, how the, how the pins travel.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I've done it before. I've never had a problem.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't think anyone ever has. I think I even,

'''Ana Reinert:''' I think I even flew from here to China with inked pens. No problem. I think,