Editing The Pen Addict 488/transcript (section)

== Pen Storage Issues ==


'''Myke:''' This never happens to me where I'm like, oh, here's a pen that I like. Whoops, I left it for a year, and it's all dried up. This never happens. They all get used. They just have ink in them for a really, really, really, really, really long time. But they get used. So this doesn't, I don't have this sensation of, oh, no, it's all dried up.

'''Brad:''' Well, I mean, this sounds like a location argument to me, Myke. Like, mine was actually put away. Yours is theoretically, I mean, like, air quote used because it's not put away. It's in the big block of madness.

'''Myke:''' That's the life hack, isn't it? You don't put, never put them away. And then they get used. Then they don't dry up. You see?

'''Brad:''' So right before the podcast today, I tried to clean it out as best I can. So it's sitting there soaking for me to check back out after. I had to disassemble the converter. It was just all caked up and gunked up. That never happens to me.

'''Myke:''' The only pen that has ever happened to me, genuinely, is the Pikachu Lummy Safari, where I had, I think it was the Pilot yellow ink in it, and it just all crusty and stuff, and I didn't want to do it. And it's like, I was like, oh, I don't want to. And I did do it. I cleaned it all out, and I put one of the Sailor Ink Studio inks in it instead, which is better to it. So I have had that. So I will say this. The only time I've ever had that where it's like it's got all dried and crusted and terrible and gross.

'''Brad:''' And that's funny that you say that because this was an orange ink. It actually might have even been Fire on Fire, and those yellow, orange, red inks are going to be, are the crusty ones, right?

'''Myke:''' Yeah, Fire on Fire can get like that. Mont Blanc Lucky Orange gets like it too, so I have to keep my eye on it.

'''Brad:''' Oh, that's a different level. That's a different level. That's like it's the ink is basically solid. Yeah, it's the greatest ink in the world, like crusty-wise, compared to Lucky Orange. And I use Lucky Orange. It's great, but you don't use that pen for a week. It's just, it's growing stuff.

'''Myke:''' Yep. Nice. Yeah. Tasty.

'''Brad:''' So that's my update. I actually have, I'm staring at three new pens I want to ink up. It's fun that I'm thinking about like future review pens, right? Like I always try to test things out, some before I review them. So this is a good way with the Nano Como, copying, inking up pens, you know, testing out new inks and pens as I go.

'''Myke:''' I think you're finding out something really interesting here, to be honest, which is like, I don't know if we would have suggested that the custom 823 would have been so good for this job. Like this is like a different thing that you're working out here, I think, which is like endurance, like for endurance, which is like a different, could be an interesting thing to include into reviews.

'''Brad:''' Like, yeah, and like I mentioned, I mentioned last week that like my physical endurance is changing as I go through this. Like I remember the first few days, I would just complain about my wrist and my grip and my fingers. And, you know, you know how if you grip something for too long, like you can't, you know, release out your fingers, they get all stiff. And like the physical aspects of my hand have improved to better handle my writing.