Editing The Pen Addict 280/transcript (section)

== Ocean Swirl Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because I can always get it cheaper than ordering it online. Now, with something like the Ocean Swirl that's coming out, which really has my interest peaked, I might just order it online because I know now, well, that price is going to be good. Right? I'm not going to, you know, lose, you know, whatever, hundreds of dollars just, you know, from being impatient. You know, where before my buying decision is like, I want that pen. I'll wait and buy it secondhand. Now, I might be more inclined to just jump right at the chance to purchase it. So, we'll see how this plays out. I hope this is all coming to fruition. And I hope we see it affect the market in a very positive manner. And I don't see any reason why it wouldn't. I mean, from a consumer perspective, it's all win. So, yep. All right. We have a couple of Ask TPAs. These first two live from the Field Notes HQ. I said, give me the questions or email them to me. You know, they'd be good-ass TPAs. So, I did. And the first one's from Michael, the designer of the upcoming Panatic Retro 51.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, this is one I'm posing to the listeners out there. I think I have an answer, but it's such a unique question. And this is the perfect place to ask it. So, he says, this year, the ice rink where I coach my son's hockey team put rink layouts on the glass above the boards next to each team bench. While every other coach I know just uses whatever dry erase marker they found at work or at the store, I'm different. I listen to the pen addict. So, what dry erase markers do you recommend for use on glass in colder environments that are bold enough for kids to see from a few feet away? In case it matters for your recommendation, I will wipe the glass clean with my sleeve due to time and space constraints. I'm not going to carry an eraser with me while I'm running practice. I love this question, right? This is like the nerd out stationary question. And these are actually really hard to answer because how do you get experience with this, right? Unless you're doing it yourself. But I know the products that they use, I call them bistro markers. And you'll see that in the name of some of the products that I recommend. That's what you see all the fancy handwriting at restaurants and cafes and coffee shops and things like that. All the bright colors. A lot of those are what they call chalk markers. And that's kind of a weird term. But basically, it's a bright colored marker that is erasable. But it's not like a dry erase ink. I would think the dry erase inks, the standard whiteboard pens, would be very faint and hard to read. And would actually have some temperature issues. And like humidity type moisture in the air issues riding on glass in a hockey rink. But these chalk markers, I don't think will. They're made to write on glass and metallic chalkboards. Other things like that. They're bright colors and they're solid lines. Like with a dry erase marker on glass, it's going to have some transparency. I think these solid lines would be better for that. The only issue is wiping it off with your sleeve. You're just going to have to carry a rag. Because I think they will probably wash right out of your sleeve. But that's not really what you want where the dry erase marker stuff just kind of vanishes. These won't. It's going to leave a color. But it does wash off cleanly. You might even need a wet rag, you know, that you can just keep handy. That's kind of the only caveat. But I think there's going to be markers that work good. And I put a couple in the show notes. The Ray May board markers and the Marvy Bistro chalk markers both work on glass. And they look like they're going to be easy to get off. I just wouldn't use your coat sleeve. But if any listeners have any recommendations from actually doing something like this, I'd love to hear them. And I'll pass them on to Michael.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What a fun thing to look for, right? Yeah. That's amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't have any ideas on specific brands. But just kind of relatively generic, I guess, dry erase markers will come off really easily, which is good. And it's not going to stain you up to high heaven. So that's kind of what I would look for. Dry erase, for sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see what the listeners come up with and if this is something that will work well for Michael. Also, I had several members of a brand new Chicago pen club called the Windy City Inkwell. They told me about their new club. They're making a kind of city slash downtown-based Chicago pen club. There's another pen club out there that's mostly out in the suburbs. So I told them to send me the link to their page if you're a Chicago resident and want to reach out to them and join their club. There are a bunch of great guys and girls that I met at the Field Notes event. We will have the link in the show notes to their Facebook page, Windy City Inkwell. And they're trying to meet once a month. And actually, I know one of the members in there is Nathaniel Surf, who helps run the Chicago pen show. So I actually knew one of the members before I knew their club existed. So I told them I'd give them a shout out. So all you Chicago peeps, hit up our show notes. You can find out how to join the Windy City Inkwell.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This next one you might have seen, Myke.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And if you didn't, you will enjoy seeing it. But I got an email from a gentleman named James. And his intro was this. He says, Hey there, Brad and Myke. I recently started a personal writing project where I wanted to write about the things that I'm thankful for. That said, this show is one of the things on the top of that list. I'll link the Medium post here. But below, I'll paste the message directed to you too. So it's a long message. But there's a Medium post. We'll link to the show notes. The Medium post is actually, Myke, thank you, Relay FM. And James goes through this whole gratitude project on this page where he talks about podcasts. He gives you and Casey a wonderful story from Analog. He has a full email about coming into the pen addict for us. And I asked him, could I share this? Because sometimes, you know, you don't know. When it's good, like personal type stuff like this, right? You know, I want to be sure. And he said, absolutely, please do. And the reason I wanted to share it is just from the project base as a whole.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love it. Like, a thank you project is fantastic. Like, we do this thing at our house where every night at dinner, you know, we can't always sit down to dinner together every night. But on the nights that we do, which is, obviously, it's most nights of the week, we go around the table and each of us says, the one thing that made us happy today. Or one thing that made us happy today. So we just call it our happies. What's your happy today? And this is kind of on that in a bigger, more public sense where he's doing this project where he's going out and saying thank you to someone that or something that meant something to him in his life. And there's a lot of ways you can do this. He's chosen medium. A lot of you might do it in your journal. Like, I think it's really cool. And I wanted to share that. And I wanted to thank James for doing this and reaching out for all the kind words he said.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think James goes by Jax online. Jax, yes. Sorry. Yes. Just to change that. But yeah, we were sent this for analog. I don't think I was included on the Pan Addict one, but Jax sent this direct to me and Casey. And Casey replied to it and it warmed my heart. And I love, obviously, like any human being would, I love to see things like this. And it means a lot to me when people have nice things to say. Sometimes to the point where I don't know what to say.