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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Two quick things. They release a lot of new features, especially on the commerce platform recently. We just integrated two of the latest updates at Nock. One, they allow customer accounts now. You can actually log in and have a record. That's great. Your purchases and things like that. That's really great. That's really great. It's nothing necessarily for us. It's just something for you to make your checkout process easier for the future.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I guess people can check their orders and stuff like that a lot easier than going to the original email.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, exactly. So they instituted that and I implemented that like two weekends ago. If you all saw me messing around with the site one Saturday or Sunday morning, I had to do a bunch of DNS updates because to get the security certificates corrected on the site. But that was all easy stuff and it worked seamlessly. And then just yesterday, I implemented the gift card feature, which they also recently launched in here in the past couple of weeks. So you can now order NotCo gift cards. So all that's by Squarespace. I just go click a couple of buttons. All that stuff's implemented for me. So that's why I like them so much. Easy stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How do people get to the gift cards? Oh, it's on Cases right there on the Cases page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I figured that's the most appropriate page for that. So yeah. So it might move around. We might adjust that a little bit. So we'll see how that goes. But yeah, that's where it's at for now. We'll just throw that out there. It's great for the holidays. Good for the holiday season. Yeah. Perfect. Good idea. All right. So let's wrap this up as we always do on some Ask TPA. And I got all of these out of the Slack room yesterday. So I get a lot of invites and requests for the Pen Addict Slack. Just shoot me an email. Hello at PenAddict.com. I'll send you over the invite link to join the Slack. It's a great, fun conversation place where you can spend time during your work day and not do work and talk about pens. So we all know that that's what its perfect use case is. So let's not fool ourselves. It's the best place to avoid work on the internet. So Oscar was avoiding work and asked, Out of all the scripts, Copperplate, Spenserian, Gothic, Unical, and Grocer's Architect print, Myke's Awesome Handwriting, Chicken Scratch, etc. Which is your favorite? Which is your least favorite? So I asked this question. I wanted to ask this question, not knowing what all of these things were. And I don't have a favorite because it's really Chicken Scratch or Myke's Awesome Handwriting or whatever you use. I'm never going to learn to do this as just like the flourishes. That hasn't really been my style. So if I had to pick one, it would be the most traditional of the bunch, not something Gothic. I print sort of like an architect. I worked on that a little bit this weekend. But it's definitely whatever you have. And if you want to learn something, I think probably the most materials out there are for Copperplate and Spenserian. I've just never been a real script kind of person because I want to use it in my regular writing. And my regular writing is print. So I tend to lean towards the architect stuff. But if you wanted to learn one, I would certainly choose Copperplate or Spenserian just because they seem to be the most regularly taught or materials available. So, and least favorite, anything that leans towards like the super calligraphic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Expialidocious. Yeah. Gothic style. Come on, that was great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Super calligraphic, expialidocious. Give it to me. Come on. Come on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like it. I like it. And I didn't even think of that. So that was all you. So good, good, good job there. So, you know, and I'm asking this second question from our good friend Jim, who was not working in the Slack the other day because he had time to ask, what are some good things to write about in the opening salvo of a mail correspondence chain?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. See, that's why I asked both of these questions. I don't write letters. It's like, you know, I wanted to bring this in there because I thought it was funny. It was like, I don't know, four score and seven years ago. I think that's what I'd write or like, hey, how's it going?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, I am not. What you're asking for, Jim, is like icebreakers. I'm not a very thoughtful person. Like, you want some icebreakers from us? Like, some small talk. How's the weather?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, well, isn't this fancy?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Toodaloo to you, dear sir. How doth you? Like, I don't know. I have no idea what you would write. Like, outside of just like, hope you're well, right? Like, you know, like, I don't really, I don't really have any good suggestions for it. Like, honestly, I would suggest that you look for icebreakers, right?