Editing The Pen Addict 136/transcript (section)

== Everyday Carry ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I'm writing this down for EDC episode sometime. It's probably not going to be very soon.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because we've done stuff like this before. Sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I've never, you know, the bag dumps and carries.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you have like what you consider to be like an everyday carry kit? Like a small one for pens and stuff?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Probably not, right? Because yours is quite large, isn't it? So this is what I'm thinking. Maybe we both need to think about this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. That's why you've got my brain working on this. Because I think that is something I need to work on. Yeah, totally.

'''Myke Hurley:''' TM23 in the chat room has just asked a question that if I don't answer now, I'm going to get a quadrillion people ask me this question. Yeah, just go ahead. What am I looking for in a wallet?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, let's have this clarification now. So we'll cut down the emails.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I carry cards. I maybe carry five to six cards, right? And a few business cards. I like something that you can put notes into, mainly because I keep things in the notes pocket. Like I keep notes that are important to me, like not money, like paper notes, like, you know, little, I don't know what you'd call them, memory notes, things. And I keep my glasses cleaner in my wallet. I don't care and I don't want somewhere to put coins.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's pretty much it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Are you a front pocket or back pocket carry? That's an important question.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Back right pocket. That's where it's going to go. Back right pocket.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So we'll work on that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We will work on that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sure you guys will. This is what I love you for.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. And I'll, I need to take a better picture of my wallet because I always get comments on it. Mine's from our friend Keegan at One Star Leather. It's a front pocket wallet. It's a front pocket wallet. That fits me just perfectly. So, you know, maybe look at what Keegan offers because he makes some larger back pocket styles too. So just something to think about. All right. So I want to go to one more topic here before we wrap. and it's about a topic we've touched on several times, but the questions keep coming up about it. And that's good. I like questions about this. And that's about handwriting. So I made a post on, what day was this? Friday. And I actually did it at a random time. I usually post things at eight in the morning. And I'd already had a post for that Friday. I was doing a giveaway. Um, but this is something that I just, um, opened up a text editor and started, uh, started writing because I wanted to, to put this, put this down. And I had a change in my handwriting style last year, not in my style, but I changed from time to time how I do specific letters and numbers. Myke, um, it's just one of those weird things that I've always done. If I get tired of a letter looking sloppy, I'll practice and change it and make it a new form. So last year, um, I was writing 2014 a bunch. Um, and I got tired of the closed top four. So I converted myself to the open four. And that actually takes time to do. That's a muscle memory thing. And it takes a good, good bit of time to do that. And I finally got it. You just have to practice and, you know, just write a bunch of fours and keep doing it over and over again. And then they'll, the old style will slip in less and less. And the new style will become more prevalent until it's about a hundred percent of your muscle memory to write that new style. So I wrote this post about it and about how I've always done this for about 20 or more years. Um, making changes, practicing new letters. And then, you know, the comments and questions about this kind of blew up. So I wanted to just talk about it a little bit more. Um, there's a lot of people in the same boat that I wrote down their comments and I just wanted to kind of, uh, touch on that. If that's, uh, that's okay with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'd love to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, the main question I get is how do you make it better? And, you know, the, the easy thing right now would be to, like, really knock on you, Myke, for your handwriting, but I'm not going to do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thanks, buddy. I appreciate that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No problem. No problem. You're welcome.