Editing The Pen Addict 132/transcript (section)

== Pen Ownership ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' This is why I'm never going to do one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was just so ambitious, right? We're going to ship it in November, and now January is rolling around. But from their update, it looks like they're making some improvements to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, they're at least in the ballpark compared to most of these guys.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, I think I told Jeff the other day that, you know, 2015 might be the year of consolidation for me. You know, at some point, I'm buying less, but I'm spending more. Yes, that's it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm on board with that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, but still, there needs to be some consolidation in the ownership of pens that I have. So, you know, I'll probably, I've never sold any of my pens before. So, I might sell a few next year. We'll see. I don't know. It's hard. I look at the pens that I have, and, you know, and I decide, you know, could I sell some of these? And sometimes, it's hard. And I was like, no, I kind of want to keep it for X reason. But maybe, you know, after a certain amount of time of not using a certain pen, I probably just need to move on from it and sell it. And, you know, use that for a more specific, you know, pen that I'm shopping for or something like that. So, you know, it's just part of this whole process. You know, you go back and listen to our first, you know, 10 or 20 episodes, which we have a lot of people doing these days, and they just laugh at us now. You know, like we've gone off the deep end on all the things that we like and from what we started talking about. So, it's pretty funny. So, yeah, I think we'll probably have more talks about the justification part of owning so much stuff, you know, throughout the next year. Because I think I'm going to go through a little bit of a consolidation period here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But we'll see. JTower42 in the chat room. Don't worry, Myke. That feeling of being set will pass. Yeah. I agree.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It always does. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, I just feel that right now, like, I'm on board with the mantra of buy less, spend more. Because I feel like I'm done with the middle range mainly now. Sure. Unless something special happens. You know, like, for example, the orange aluminium Twisby, right? That's a nice thing. Yes. That might tempt me out. But other than that, I mean, we're looking three figures now. Right. For me to want to maybe take a new pen, a new fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Exactly. Exactly. And it's not like, that's not a weekly purchase by any stretch of the imagination. So, we'll see. A few other quick hits.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My local Georgia buddy, Mr. Gray Williams, he was taunting me. He said, hey, you got any new not-goods coming out, like backpacks or messenger bags? Because we've teased those in the past. And I don't see us doing a backpack next year, but Jeff and I definitely want to do a backpack. That's on the radar. I doubt it's going to happen next year. Just looking at what we have coming up, y'all have seen us do a bunch of teases about our folio. I'm going to get my first folio prototype this weekend. I'm going to pick that up. So, hopefully we can get that going in the spring. That's kind of the next big thing on our radar. We'll probably also introduce the Fodderstack XL, which people have been clamoring for. That's going to be the Fodderstack that fits the memo books, the memo book standard, like the 3.5x5.5, because ours fit a 3x5 note card is what we made them for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you've been putting field notes inside of there. Yep. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yeah, I like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so a bunch of people have been clamoring for that. And in the lead up to that, we're introducing something new tomorrow. It might be something that can go into that Fodderstack XL that is our own creation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you'll have to check this site out tomorrow. The chat room got a good tease on it. Yeah, JTower42. He pings me on Twitter all the time. Where's my Fodderstack XL? So, it's not imminent, the Fodderstack XL. But, you know, I think in the first part of next year, we're going to try to get that done because we're introducing a paper product tomorrow that will fit in it. So, you know, I'll...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are you going to give any more information than that?