Editing The Pen Addict 148/transcript (section)

== Pen Show Schedule ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let's talk about the pen show schedule. There's kind of two schedules that we need to kind of intertwine. There's the actual pen show schedule. And then there's going to be the pen addict stuff that you and I and Ana are going to be doing. The real schedule. Not the real schedule. So the pen show on Friday, it's just 12 to five. It's really kind of a setup day for the vendors. People will trickle in in the afternoons. A lot of mingling. That's a real low key event day. So if you're in on Friday, that's a great day to come in, hang out, mingle around, ask a lot of questions. You'll get a lot of time with all the vendors, all the people there, just because it's not going to be overly crowded. So Friday is super straightforward for the pen show. Then on Saturday and Sunday, they actually do have early hours for the weekend pass holders, which people that are traveling in, like all of us, and a lot of people that are going to be here for more than one day, they have a weekend pass. So if you get the weekend pass for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, well, I guess it's theoretically just Saturday and Sunday, you can get in at nine. And what that's good for is getting in line to get nib work done, something like that. You know, you get that. That's when you come in at 10 o'clock and see 10 names on the list in front of you. That's what's happened. People with early access get in there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' When you say getting in line, do you just put your name down or do you have to stand in line?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. So the, say, take Myke Masayama, for example, he'll have, he'll have a list that he's working off of. Um, he'll probably have his wife there helping him. She travels with him a bunch or he'll have some other helper there with him and they'll keep a list. Um, and they'll take your phone number and they'll usually text you. And, um, you know, when you're, when your time is, is getting near, like when you're one up or one behind the person that they're working on. So they kind of give you a timeframe and you can always swing back by and check and they scratch them off as they go and you can see how many people are in front of you. And it's, uh, it's, you know, when there's one or two people ahead of you, it's nice to sit there and watch him work too. You know, you can just hang out until it's your turn and, uh, make sure you don't get buddy jumped. So, cause I will, I'll take your spots. Cause I do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hi, I'm Myke Hurley.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do have some work to get done. And so, uh, I hope I can, hope I can swing that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What do you have in what, Don?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I have a Pelican that I just got, a 605 that we haven't talked about cause I just got it. It's got a really, really wet medium nib that I want to get knocked down a bunch. Okay. Um, and then I have my orange Nakaya, the, the, um, one like, like look like, it looks like it's cracked, you know? Yeah. I want to get that. Yeah. It's an extra fine nib and I want to kind of get it fine tuned. Like it's really close to being good, but it's such a nice and expensive pen that I want to use. I want it to be perfect. So I just want to get that, uh,

'''Myke Hurley:''' yeah. See, that's how I am about my Edison. Cause like that's, that was Nakaya money. Right. Totally.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um,

'''Myke Hurley:''' so I, I want it, I mean, it's, it's perfectly fine, but I want it to be like, I want it to be a pen that I feel bad to not use.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. You know?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. So back to your question, Saturday and Sunday for like all of us, you know, that are there, uh, 9 a.m. is when it opens up. Actually there's 8 a.m. is you can get registered. If you're just coming in Saturday, you can get registered early, you know, buy your tickets early, whatever. And, um, we'll have vendors set up there. So yeah, I'm saying all this stuff, like I'm just going to be attending the pen. I'm going to pen show. I'm going to be working a lot of this time. So, you know, this doesn't necessarily apply to me, but at 10 o'clock on Saturday and Sunday, it opens to the public. And I don't know if y'all have checked out the actual pen show schedule. They have seminars during the show that are great to attend. I have not personally attended, but I've talked to people that have done it and they always rave about it. Um, two women, uh, Susan worth. Um, this is one for you, Myke, how some pens can make anyone's handwriting look good and how to find them at a pen show. So I'm going to sign you. I'm going to sign you up for that one. Oh, please, please do. And then Anna, I'm going to, you need to sign up for the Italian calligraphy and cursive handwriting from Deborah Basil. Both Susan worth and Deborah Basil travel around to all these shows and do these seminars. So they're, they're super good. Um, both of those are set up for Saturday.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I love going to calligraphy classes because they get mad at me because I'm left-handed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're like, they're like look in a mirror and follow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's just, it, uh, do you frustrate them to no end?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I work with so many people who do lettering at Hallmark. And when I asked them to help me with something, they just go, there's one guy there who started off as a lefty. And when he went to college, he actually went to a program that had calligraphy and they taught him to write with his right hand. So he does all this calligraphy, calligraphy with his right hand.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That makes me sad. So when I asked him, he says,

'''Ana Reinert:''' learn to write with your right hand. And I'm like, no, not happening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like discrimination.

'''Ana Reinert:''' It's totally discrimination.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's total discrimination. Well, you could probably teach the class, um, knowing you.

'''Ana Reinert:''' No, I'm not. My skills are still way low.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's both, both Saturday and Sunday, both, uh, Susan and Deborah, um, have these various classes. And when you get there, if you're interested in those classes, they'll have the time set up, um, when you can go. I don't think they cost any extra. If I'm remembering, uh, from last year, if they did, it was something very small. Um, but they will have the schedules on the day of on exactly what time they're doing it. And then both day five o'clock on Saturday and Sunday, the show ends. That's when the party gets started. That's what we're all here for. The after the after show, the show is going to be awesome. And, um, you know, I'll be in the room the whole time, probably at the knock booth and then maybe a little bit mingling around. I'm gonna have to figure out some time to do some shopping for myself, maybe on Friday and, um, maybe some shopping for, um, we got it. We all have to decide, you know, what we're going to shop for our backers for the Kickstarter project. So we're all going to, we're all going to work on that. Maybe we can sit down when we get there and we'll figure out what we're going to do for that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We need to set some budgets and then, and then we can, we can go out and buy some stuff. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So set, set the budget for each of us and then, uh, figure out how we're going to do it and how we're going to present it to everyone and how we're going to give it away. So that'll be really, really fun. So let's talk about the party stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I was wondering like, Brad, do you, do you know off the top of your head, like who's going to be there? Give like a rundown of, of the, the, the names and faces that you can expect to see at the Atlanta Pen Show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let me preface this. Number one, I'm going to leave someone out. I just know, because I haven't, I'm going to take a roll call as we get closer for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're going to leave me out. I know. Yeah, for sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And number two, Jeff is already making with our print shop, um, name tags for everyone, like little stickers, like, hello, my name is, except they say something to the effect of, hi, you'll never, my name, remember my name in real life, but my Twitter handle is blank. So, so we're going to have some name tags for people. Um, so, so we all can, uh, remember, like I keep talking about Punky in the chat room. I know his real name, but I keep calling him Punky because that's what I see in the chat room. But off the top of my head list,