Editing The Pen Addict 59/transcript (section)

== Pocket Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, so. Yeah. So back to your topic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What I, what I want is I want to be able to keep field notes in my pocket, right? In a back pocket. And I want a small pen to carry around with them. So it's like attached to the book. Now a pen that I've got is the field notes space pen. Um, and that kind of does that job, I think. But what I'm wondering, and I'll pose this to you and to any other listeners, is there a better pen than the field notes, like a space pen, a small space pen for doing this job?

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

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, so, I mean, space pen's fine, but it's not really the type of pen that, that I go for. Um. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um. It's a rollerball, right? No, ballpoint. It's a ballpoint. Ballpoint, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I like the space pen. It's not, it's not anywhere near like one of my favorite pens. I like it for its utility and its looks. Um, it's not a great, it's not a great writer. Um, it's a decent writer. I use it, uh, the refills and like my County Comm Embassy pen, but that's a large pen and you want like a smaller, something that you could basically, like you want something that you can clip to the field notes that's small enough to pretty much stay internal to the notebook, right? You don't want a pen bigger than the notebook size, right? Is that kind of what I'm, I'm gathering?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, something small and good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Are you going to have an issue with the, uh, with the tip size? Like, you know, like a lot of these small pens that I like, you know, have like a very small, like a gel pen that's 0.3 millimeters. I mean, it's a small, it's a perfect pen for that, but I don't know. Would that drive you crazy?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know. I don't think so.