Editing The Pen Addict 230/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, Draplin's on tour right now. Yeah. He's traveling all over the place. Did you see the limited edition that he was doing? The huge field notes?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I didn't see him ahead of time. Then I saw him popping up on Twitter with some people I follow. That's pretty awesome. How cool is that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I can't tell how big they are.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It looks massive. They have to be, like, three by four, and that's in feet, not inches. Like, they're close to three by four, I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Only 30 of them made.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're pretty awesome. What are they called? Texas size something or other?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Things are definitely bigger in Texas. They're called the industry edition, industry print shop, fine art division. Gotcha. $60 each, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I was reading one of them. I don't know if it's one of the links that you showed, but I know one of the links on Instagram was saying, I got one of these and I don't know what to do with it. And they ended up mounting it on the wall.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I would have to display it as artwork. There's nothing I would be able to do with that thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think that's what it ended up being. They got just a big picture frame and hung it on the wall and it's huge. It's like as big as your flat screen TV or something like that. Just mount it up on the wall. It's hilarious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's an addition that I appreciate exists, but I'm not interested in owning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, me too. I'm good without that one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Speaking of drafting, I got a ticket for his talk in London. Oh, cool. He's going to be as part of an Adobe creative meetup event. And he's one of the speakers. It is on a day where I'm expecting to be dealing with a lot of new house stuff. So it is TBC as to whether I can actually attend.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What does TBC mean?

'''Myke Hurley:''' To be confirmed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. We use TBD to be determined. So I couldn't come up with the C. So yeah, to be confirmed. I like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, we TBDC as to whether I can actually make it or not. I love you. Because that's the day that my broadband is being installed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, well, that's very important for your business.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so I kind of need to be there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You need at least two more years.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have this weird, like I'm setting up basically a mobile recording studio right now. Because I know I'm going to be backwards and forwards from the new place for a few weeks at least. Where there's not going to be anything in it. So like I've been trying to assemble this like new microphone and like this like portable foam shield. Basically expect that if you listen to a selection of my shows, you're going to hear some varying audio over the next couple of months. Because I don't know where I'm going to be for any of the recordings. Because I'm just like shuttling backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards from new house to old house.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Speaking of which, I started packing stuff up in boxes. Like I've started with some technology related things. And the wardrobe that I'm packing up next is my field notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have too many, man. I don't know how I'm going to move all these things. I have no idea. Like I have this big plastic kind of container that has a lid on it. Which has got like a bunch of like a sorted stationary items in it. I'm basically just going to tape that thing up. And be like this goes. Because all of my good pens, like so all my good pens, I'm going to put them in the big wallet thing that I bought for pen shows. So they will be packed up like that. And they will be moved on my person when we eventually move. Right. So I'm just going to. Because it's too much. It's just too expensive. Like that one wallet. Something bad happens to that. It's like basically just burning money. Right. Because these things retain value. Right. So I need to be careful with them. That it's like if someone was to have an antique collection kind of thing, this would be mine. You know what I mean?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, exactly right. And you take extra care. People ask. You know, we've talked about moving before. And, you know, I always say those are the things that move on your person. There's always a range of items that movers move or that go into a truck. And there's things that go into your car or on your person. Pens are on that list for people like ourselves.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Especially because I can get the majority of my good stuff in that thing. Right. Because I have like, it's like a 48-pen wallet thing. And there'll be some, like some of my Retro 51 collection or whatever is going to go in a box. Because they're a bit more durable and less of a concern. But I have literally no idea how I'm going to pack these field notes. I can put them all in a box. But then it's just a box of paper. Which you can't really do. You know? Just looking at them, I'm like, oh man, what am I going to do with this?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Smaller boxes. I mean, a multitude of smaller boxes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know what I'm going to do with them. I have so many. I feel like I need to. I haven't got enough time to like sort them. You know? Like I might do that when we move. Like when I'm unpacking them to like to sort them and be like, here is a bunch I don't need anymore. What do I do with that? But right now I haven't got the time to go through that. For these anyway. For the field notes. I'm doing that with a lot of stuff. Like I'm filtering some stuff. Like I dumped out like a whole drawer of t-shirts last night. You know? Just like I tend to buy like multiple t-shirts of one whenever we do merchandise. Right. I was like, right, no. You got to get down to one. One of each design. You know? I'm just like starting to go through stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you really have to? I don't really. But I think I should. That's me. Yeah. It's a terrible feeling.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have nearly 30 years of belongings in this house.

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