Editing The Pen Addict 511/transcript (section)

== Break Time ==


'''Brad:''' See, I'm not sure that writing the, why would writing the vacation thing help you in this scenario? Because.

'''Myke:''' Because I would have seen something written on the page. The expectation would not have been a blank page before I restarted.

'''Brad:''' Right. The problem is, you just opened it and you were on a blank page and it was Monday and you were just like, oh, this must be it then.

'''Myke:''' Yep. And then the Sunday before, I expected it to be blank. You really cavemaned that, didn't you? Oh, it was horrible. This is a terrible example.

'''Brad:''' This is the page.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Oh, Monday, me right.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Oh, I totally screwed this up. So, yeah. Marking anything on the page would have kept me in line.

'''Brad:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke:''' Right? Even if I got home, Monday said I need to go back and vacation up all these pages, I would have started correctly. So, I got a lot of, on one hand, I got some sympathy in the Instagram comments. On the other hand, expectedly so, I got some outrage. Like, what are you doing? How did this happen? You're an idiot. Which is fair. I got some thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. So, thank you, Inkwell Monster, for that. I got a lot of people saying that I just need to burn it now. I've ruined the entire planner. You should burn the thing. It's like finding a spider in your house. Well, it's time to burn the house, right? Like, there was a spider here. Like, this is what I have done.

'''Myke:''' I have got a lot of commentary that this is why you use undated planners. Because when it was Monday, I would have had to write in the date myself. And I wouldn't have had this problem. Yeah. So, this all boils down to what am I doing now to fix it, Myke? I have to fix, I'm writing this week on the two weeks ago missed week. Because I can't write ahead anymore. Okay. Because I'm already filled out through the end of April. Right. For my mistake. So, I have to, I have scratched out two weeks ago's dates to make them this week's dates. We'll finish this week out. And then we'll start back on Sunday, May the 1st. Or Monday, May the 2nd. And this long national nightmare will be over. It was, I was so thrown off on Monday when I discovered this. Yeah. That I was just stunned for like an hour straight. So, that's why I was just like spewing my thoughts on Twitter and Instagram. Like, how did this happen? What have I done? It actually, I was figuring this out in real time. Like, if you follow my Twitter thread, I was like, I have made a huge mistake. Like, and then like five minutes later, I finally figured out. I was like, oh no. I have really made a huge mistake. Because it's carried on for longer than I anticipated. So, this has been a real learning experience. It's been good. I mean, it's not good. Because I hate having out of order plantering. And now I'm just thoroughly confused myself. So, I'm just going to get through this week. But it's been good that I care enough that I've stuck with this planner so far. This is the first time in a long time that this has actually worked. Because previously, all I would have done, my previous layout was two page per week, right? I'd have seven days on the left and then a blank page on the right for notes. It would just be, I wouldn't have been able to make this mistake. So, yeah, I've learned something about myself and how I use planners and how little I look at the dates. Like Kate in the chat says, the moral here is that you should look at the dates more. And that's true. It's like, I had to make sure when I discovered this, what is today? Like I'm pulling up calendars. Like is today really April 25th? Like Monday when I figured it out? Who could know? Who knows? I had myself that confused and turned around. It was a nightmare. And I'm still living it. But I've got everything corrected. So, I've got the two weeks that I've written on the wrong dates. I have those date corrected. And then I have three weeks ago, essentially, or two weeks ago, the April 11th week. I have now modified into the 25th, April 25th week. And it's just a mess. Get me through this week. We'll be back to normal in my plan on Monday until I discover the next mess that I make for myself. This is all completely self-inflicted. If I would have just marked off those days, I think I would have caught it a lot earlier. And I'm terrible at this. So, yeah. There you go. It's been a good week in plannerdom. We weren't going to... I think we just did a planner update like a week or two ago. I wasn't planning to do another one this soon. But when you wreck your planner this bad, it's worth speaking the truth and learning from the experience.

'''Brad:''' Should we take a break? Make you feel a bit better?

'''Myke:''' I'm exhausted just from revisiting that. Yeah. So, I have to look at my planner every day now and go, you've really mucked this up, buddy. So, get me through this week, Myke. And today is the day to do it.

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'''Myke:''' So what is the regular one for you? There's the traditional shape. No Mailele band, right?

'''Brad:''' No Mailele band this time.

'''Myke:''' No clip? No clip. Then I think we have the same one. Yep.

'''Brad:''' So this is, I call it the standard, but it's not the standard. Right. It's not the classic profile.

'''Myke:''' It's my preferred option.

'''Brad:''' Because it's the one that I always think of for them. It's like, oh yeah, that's a canalea pen. It is... Classic Flush. Classic Flush. That's the one that I always think of. Because they have the classic. The classic is where the cap is a little bit larger than the body, and that's what they use for the Mailele ones. But Classic Flush is... Straight-sided, essentially. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' Smooth connection. No differentiation between where the cap hits the barrel. So like you said, we both have this pen in hand. Do you want to go first? Do you want me to go first? How do you want me to discuss this?

'''Brad:''' I mean, I can talk about my experience with it. Okay. So like, I took it out of the packaging. Because we don't... When Hugh and Carol send these to us as part of these sponsorships, they don't... We don't know anything about the pen at all. And it's just a case of like taking it out of the packaging and seeing it for ourselves. And I took it out of the packaging and I was like, oh, they're going for like a kind of underwater vibe or something like that, right? And then I turned it over and saw the huge blue shimmery streak running down the whole body of the pen. And I'm like, oh boy, what's this? And then I looked at the imagery and like, it's amazing. Like, you know, if you look at the imagery, if you look at any imagery of like I was doing some Googling of this, of like the Milky Way over like Kuwait, you see it like in every image. It's always this like this very large streak of color or of stars going over just one area in the sky. And they have replicated this so well. And again, you know, we've been talking about this, like maybe the last four or five pens from Canalea. The thing that always hits me hardest is the depth that they're able to achieve in the acrylic. And that is like this one. It is genuinely to me looks like something like there is this like blue shimmer trapped inside of the pen somewhere. It's really very cool. Very special. And I also actually, I kind of like that they're doing this thing. They're moving up now. You know, like the last one they moved down. They went on the water, right? And now they're moving up to the sky. I like this kind of like exploration they're doing in theme.

'''Myke:''' I have a lot to say about this material and my thoughts on when I unboxed it. First and foremost, I think they got the name wrong. The Levolani. I think it should just be called the Canalea Bilmi because that's what I told them.

'''Brad:''' This is for you, huh?