Editing The Pen Addict 178/transcript (section)

== Pen Chalet ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' You bet they do. They have all of the best rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils that you'd be hoping to find. Penshalay have all of the brands that you love as well, like Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, and they're an authorized dealer of all of them. Penshalay believe in reliable customer service. They believe in fast customer service. And they believe in free shipping on orders of over $50 in the continental United States. They also sell internationally with very reasonable shipping rates. I've just realized how hard these are for me to do this week. They're always adding styles of pens. Every single month, Penshalay have got new pens. They're always adding awesome stuff in. And they do all of these great new pens and all the great stock that they have at great prices. They do high quality pens, great prices with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So, you want to head over to penshalay.com, use the code PENADDICT on any order, and you'll save 10%. So, you can just do that at checkout. What you should do, as always, is click the podcast link at the top of the website, and enter the password PENADDICT for even more savings as well as your 10% off. So, a couple of things I want to let you know about today. So, before I tell you the special deal of the week, Ron over at Penshalay wanted me to let you guys know that Penshalay is doing a Fountain Pen Day giveaway. I can't believe Fountain Pen Day is nearly upon us again. I know. It's coming in November. November 6th is Fountain Pen Day. So, there's a bunch of fantastic giveaways. You can go and check out the site. I'm going to put a link in our show notes so you can find the Fountain Pen giveaway page. So, if you go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 178, you'll find a link to the Penshalay Fountain Pen Day giveaway there, which is fantastic. Go check that out. Go enter. There's some fantastic prizes in here, like a Pelican Suverand 600, which is $595, for example. There's loads of really, really awesome stuff in there. You should go check that out. But, also, you want to know our special deal for the week, which is a Visconti Homo Sapien Rollerball in silver. This is 40% off the retail price, which is incredible. They usually retail for $565.50. You can get them in the sale for $339.30. And then, once you put in the coupon, the penaddict coupon at checkout as well, you'll be able to pick it up for $305.37, which is 40% off. A really, really great looking and expensive pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I didn't even know that pen came in a rollerball. That's like one of the, probably at the top of my wish list, like the years-long wish list, the Visconti Homo Sapiens is just a fantastic looking pen. The fountain pen model is the one I've been looking at. I didn't even know it came in a rollerball. So, that's very cool. I just love the barrel design on that pen. So, it's awesome. And Ron continues to be awesome at Pen Chalet. I get more complimentary emails about Pen Chalet than just about any sponsor that we have on the show. And all of our sponsors are wonderful. I get emails about all of them. But I get time and time again just the thank you for, you know, working with Pen Chalet. You know, every week in my inbox, they do a great job for our listeners and for us. And we really appreciate it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, you know, I also want to thank them for helping out with us and everything that we do. We think it's awesome. And we're very, very happy to continue to work with Ron Pen Chalet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, a couple more quick things. And then we're going to go way, way deep into the Karis Customs thing today. I have a feeling. But NaNoWriMo is coming up. This is the National Novel Writing Month in November. It's coming. A friend of the show, Pete Dennison, has a link that we'll have in the show notes. Getting prepared for NaNoWriMo. He's got all kinds of, you know, links on getting started and tips and how to proceed on it. You know, I'm definitely not a writer and won't be participating. But I know tons of our listeners do this every year. And our good friend, our favorite priest, Father Kyle, asked us, if you had one notebook, one pen, and one ink for NaNoWriMo, what would the combo be? So, I know you're not participating, Myke. And I know you're not participating, Dan. But if you were, and you were going to write a novel in November, and you picked up one pen, one notebook, and one ink, what would it be, Myke? Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, if I was writing a book, you know, I would want something that was easy to use, you know, so my hand wouldn't cramp up too much. So, I would probably go with, yeah, I would probably go with that Pro Gear. Yeah. The Pro Gear is real soft, it's real smooth. I've got it in a fine, I think, or cursive italic, something like that. I can't remember now off the top of my head. So, I've got it in a nice fine point. So, I'm going to have a lot of space on the pages, right, to fill in with all my amazing, fantastic words. And, of course, I would use Hiroshisuku Kanpeki, because there is no greater ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And, plus, who doesn't want to turn in a manuscript written in orange? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Except it's Fuyugaki Kanpeki is the bright blue.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm drinking medicine right now. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You are fully exempted from any mistakes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did I ever tell you, Brad, I might have told this story on the show before once, that my coursework for GCSE, so, like, when I was 16, and we were doing our exams, and we had to do English coursework, and we had to, like, write essays. I was a bit of a rebel at this point in my life, and I wrote them all in purple ink. Nice. And they wouldn't, and I just, my teachers were trying to tell me that I couldn't do it, but I refused.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then the only way that they could submit it to the exam board was they had to photocopy everything that I wrote, so it would be in black.