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== Announcement of Inkvent 2025 plans ==

* I literally wrote a note, uh, about ink vent 2025. That's all I'm going to say. Yeah. And, uh, and I'll, I'll commit, uh, publicly to this for the first time we've been doing ink vent for a few years. In fact, ink vent 2025 for enigma is going to be the first time that everybody who buys the set is going to get the exact same set of inks. Um, and we've, we've had to kind of piece together somewhere around a dozen different sets. We've, we've had inks that everybody gets out of 25 inks. We've had probably a dozen of those where everybody gets the same ones on a certain day. Um, but then for the rest of the month, it's been, um, just however many samples we can get out of the handful of bottles of a particular ink we've got, but I'm sourcing them further in advance this year. That one's kind of more my project than, uh, um, than, than Pen and Michelle. And so, uh, I'm, I'm getting enough of everything we're going to feature to, uh, to make sure that all 50 sets can have the same 25 inks. So that's, I'm excited about that. Cause I think it'll enable people to, you know, share more about what they're seeing as they open and sample and all that kind of stuff. I'm smiling along with you right now because, you know, we're at the first second of March and like, you have to lock in your ink pen like right now, like you need to know what you're doing. And it's like, I feel that in my bones. It was like, yes, we are planning for December right now. Oh yeah. I've got, I think I've got eight or 10 slots pretty much figured out. Yeah. And, uh, and it'll, it'll get harder as we go because it'll be, we like to have a mix of colors and brands and all that. For sure. So for sure. I can only imagine what the spreadsheet looks for that or the notebook or, or however you're tracking that that's gotta be. Well, let me tell you with the sets labeled a through K, uh, in last year, the year before, um, it was an ugly spreadsheet.
* All right. Well, Dan, I really, really appreciate you. Uh, this has been an awesome episode. Best of luck to you, Michelle and Pen with Enigma. Where, where are we going to see you on the road next? Is it San Francisco, the, the next show for y'all? Yeah, it is. Uh, you know, as, as Pen requested a couple of years ago, Hey, can we not spend every vacation doing, uh, uh, work? Yes. Fair. Um, and I said, you know what, that's excellent feedback and, uh, you know, life, uh, work-life balance advice from a, at that time, a 10 or 11 year old. So, so yeah, we've, we've kind of scaled back the in-person, uh, plans and, uh, yeah, we'll be at SF in August. That'll be, and it's a Labor Day weekend this year, which every, every so many years, you know, that last weekend of August is also a Labor Day weekend. So, so hope to see maybe more people this year who can, who can make that work with it being a, being a long holiday weekend. Yeah. Well, it'll, it'll be amazing as always. San Francisco is a great show. I'm probably not going to be there this year. I'm not going to say definitively, but, uh, it's looking like my schedule is not going to work out for it this year, but I know I will see you soon. See the rest of the family soon. Um, and that's it for this week's episode of the pen addict podcast. Thank you to all our sponsors, Squarespace, Enigma, stationery, express VPN. Thanks to all of our listeners. And thanks to Dan, especially for joining me this week until next week. Say goodbye, Dan. Goodbye, Dan.

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