Editing The Pen Addict 522/transcript (section)

== Lego Pen Cup Discussion ==


'''Brad:''' Right. Right. And, uh, and there's a couple of different colors, right? It's got, you know, some, some different colors depending on, you know, what you're feeling for your desk.

'''Myke:''' Okay. Sent in the discord, a banana Lego pen.

'''Brad:''' I saw that one and I opted for the spaceship when thinking I could tempt you with that. I prefer the banana. The pineapple. Oh, I, so I found the, uh, uh, okay. All right.

'''Myke:''' But still not what I'm looking for. It's pretty great. It seems like a lot of work.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. It's pretty great. Maybe we build that for me next year.

'''Myke:''' Might not be a bad idea.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. We'll keep that in mind.

'''Myke:''' No, the problem with these is that I don't even know if they have instructions. You went to like customize it. It's this dots range that they have, right? Oof. Where like you, you kind of make your own thing, I think is part of it, which is why there's so many extra pieces. This is this, that they're using this as like a platform for art kind of creation stuff. Gotcha. Gotcha. So like you're supposed to do your own thing, which I've never liked that with Lego. Like I was never one of the kids that like took, you know, you'd see on the Lego box, you would see like, oh, you could also build this with this kit, right? And they would show like another thing that you could do if you were smart enough. I would never attempt to try and do those things. I just want to build the set, the image on the front of the box. I don't want to take this car and try and turn it into a robot instead. I was never interested in that.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I'm with you on that. Same thing. I was never a creative Lego builder. I'm with the model instructions.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. I mean, like, you know, like old kids, like I would build my own things completely, right? Like my own complete things. But I never wanted to try and build something else from the model. Like if I bought a model kit, I just wanted to build the model kit and that's it.

'''Brad:''' Yep. Yep.

'''Brad:''' You asked me, do I keep a set of tools always at hand? And that's kind of what I went through in that, that Rodia cup.

'''Brad:''' So I have that also have, you know, pin cubes and storage, right? I use some Dudek modern goods and some Karas customs. Like they did that machine cube. It's just like this huge block of aluminum. I have one of those on my desk and I have a Dudek, you know, where I keep some other pins, just, you know, in individual slots in those holders as opposed to the bulk holder. But there's no real, I don't have any real rules between these accessories on my desk. Sometimes I pull something out of the block and it ends up back in the pen cup.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Like for me, I kind of think of those, like what I'm doing here with this pen cup is like just a bunch of daily use stuff. Like that I kind of imagine is kind of a little bit more ruggedy or whatever, you know? Like it's just like, it just is what it is kind of stuff. Right. But then I use those like blocks with the individual holes for like all my really nice expensive pens.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I did want to point out one desk accessory that I really love. And I don't think we, we may have talked about it on this, on the show before, but I talk about it on stream all the time because you can see it when I, when I stream and I keep it behind me on a shelf. It's the Yoseka Hachi collections, walnut pen tray. I do like trays for a desk situation where a lot of times I'll have, you know, multiple fountain pens inked up. And if they're not in a pen case and I'm on my desk a lot, I like it's as opposed to just like setting them on my desk. I don't rewind a little bit. The pen cups and pen holders, I don't keep any fountain pens in those. Right. So my fountain pens are kept in pen cases or like in this tray. This would be like the inked pens tray. So like I have cleaned pens that aren't inked, you know, that's in the storage in the, in the pen box. And then if pens are inked or maybe I've written them dry and I haven't cleaned it yet, they live on this tray. That way I can just, you know, as opposed to using a pen case at my desk, I can just reach on the tray, grab the pen that I know is inked. So it's kind of like the active pens. Something needs to happen with these pens. Either I write with them or clean them. So that's, that's been, it's a, you know, it's a expensive, essentially just flat wooden block, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of it. I'm, I'm very pleased that I bought this. I didn't think this would be something that I would be interested in, but it's kind of cool and I use it pretty much every day.

'''Myke:''' It honestly looks like something you would have if you had a store.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. They, I wonder if they, I haven't read all the directions, but I wonder if they had a bunch of these built for their store and then, yeah, it looks like that's what they did. So this was part of their displays at the shop, at the Yoseka shop. And then now they're selling them individually as well.

'''Myke:''' That makes sense considering the way that they look.

'''Brad:''' I mean, they're, it's just like a beautiful piece, you know, for, for a desk. And like I said, I just, I keep it like kind of right behind me, but within arm's reach and my inked pens go there. If they're not in a pen case, my fountain pens. Cause like I said, I don't keep any of the fountain pens in the, in the other storage on my desk. They're all generally laying flatter in a pen case.

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