Editing The Pen Addict 136/transcript (section)

== Stationery Resolutions ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' That's really cool. I like that. Yep. So we should probably talk about my stationary resolutions. We should have given them a snappier name than that, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I'll go ahead and help you out. Number one, find the ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, that is actually on there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we should have had a, you know, we've done this for three or four years. And we've never had anything besides stationary resolutions for the name. So maybe the chat room can help us out with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we can think about that for next year. One of my resolutions is to find my missing ink. Yeah. What I haven't got on there this year, which I've had in previous years, like kind of related in name, is to try out more inks. Like, I'm not really interested in it anymore. I just ended up being I'm not really an inks person. Right. I like what I like. So one thing for me is I need to buy less notebooks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, man, that's like totally obvious. And I didn't even think about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have too many already. I'm looking at like, you know, I'm running out of space to store these things. And I'm buying more and people send me more. You know, the great listeners of this show are always sending me stuff. Which is amazing. I love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What did I tell you right before the show started?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know. Yeah. I've got another book on the way. I said, hey, I'm sending you some notebooks. Yeah. So if I renew my field notes description, which I'm pretty sure I will, I'm not going to buy extras unless it's like super special. But it has to be really special, you know, and I'm not buying any until they at least arrive. Because what I've been doing for so many times, I think this, like the last maybe year or two years, the only books I've not done it for is the Ambition Edition. I've bought more of every pack before they've bought more of every pack before they've even arrived. I need to stop doing that because my next resolution is to use more notebooks. I am not using them anymore. Yeah. Let me rephrase that. I use them, but I'm not using them at the same rate. I would go through a field notes book, a single book, maybe every three weeks when I was at my day job. I am currently not doing that. I don't know what uses to use for my notebooks. I use the larger field notes, which I have next to me all the time when I'm recording the shows and I take down notes for edits and stuff like that. And I do use that, but I go through one and like it takes weeks to go through because I use one page for like three shows sometimes because there's not really a lot for each show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, so I need to find new uses. I mean, I always have a field notes like in my bag and when I'm at my desk, I always have one. And when I'm on phone calls, I take notes. But I don't have enough phone calls even.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You want me to give out your phone number?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, let's do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know what I mean? Like I have like business calls and stuff. Like I'm looking at this one book here. I have two pages left in it and I started it. Oh, I can't even see because. Oh, I started it in October.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's just been sitting by my computer. And then I have a couple that I keep in my topo, which I take when I go co-working. And I had a call today, so I use one page. Like I need to find more uses for notebooks. Maybe this is a similar thing to you. I need to think about that a little bit more, you know, like sketching or something. But I don't know when I do that. I think I need to stop feeling like I need to write everything into a digital system because it's searchable and backed up and syncable. That's where I'm putting a lot of these notes. So maybe I don't need to do that. Maybe I shouldn't do that. The other thing, which is something that I was thinking, oh, what can my resolutions be? And then I had like another thought. What could help me use this stuff more? I want to start thinking about a perfected EDC. Okay. I want to start thinking about what do I want to have on me? Like, so obviously it would be a field note, but I'm thinking like, what is the EDC, the everyday carry? Sorry for people that don't know. What is the everyday carry pen for me? And I want to go back to thinking about that a little bit more.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I like that. That's something we should do an episode on that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I'm thinking like, you know, what do I put it in? And I've got all these great knock products that I don't use enough. And I'm thinking like, let me think about this. Like what can be a really good everyday carry setup that I can use? And I'm thinking like wider than this as well, because I need a new wallet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So here, oh no, I shouldn't have said it. I shouldn't have said it. But yeah, guys, I need a new wallet. Help me out here. I need a new wallet. So, you know, I'm starting to think about a bunch of these things. Like, you know, what is the everyday carry scenario for me? Like, what are we looking at? And that's something I want to start thinking about this year.