Editing The Pen Addict 322/transcript (section)

== Hobonichi Festival Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' You need to explain to me what this Hobonichi festival is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we'll do that. We'll save that for next week. Okay. Because it's a whole thing. Okay. Hobonichi, every year they step it up. And this year they've like gone, gone crazy with like all kinds of release dates and fun and madness about to happen. So, you know, look at Hobonichi. If you are okay with writing in your own dates, I love the Traveler's Weekly Planner. You know, it has their seven days per page, but you can start it whenever you want to start it. Like you could buy it, start it tomorrow and be, you know, the first day of the first week that you want to capture. And you will run out of that individual journal before 18 months. I think it lasts about six months. But that's something if you actually find a paper you like, there's a lot of companies that will just make a fill in your own date type of planner. So I wish I had like something super specific to tell you, but the 18 month is kind of hard to nail down. So the inky side says, I've been using my field notes more and more in my EDC. What covers have you found to be your favorite for field notes? Preferably one that keeps the dimensions within back pocket size. So just a little bit bigger, just enough to hold the notebook itself with not too much extraneous stuff going on is kind of how I read that. And the everyday inspiration has still been one of the best ones. That's field notes collaboration with Bellroy. Bellroy makes amazing quality goods.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a killer collab, right? Like, well, they just kind of nailed it. I hate myself that I just said that word, but it's the it's it's the two fantastic companies that know how to make their thing. And then they work together to make a thing. It's just like, right. They nailed it. It's wonderful. I've seen a few of those and they're really nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And they're both kind of have that philosophy of not extraneous stuff anyway. Right. So putting them together, you're going to get a nice slim line notebook cover that works well. I also like anything that Keegan does at one star leather. The park sloper was, I think, maybe his first thing that he made. And it's still been one of the most popular items he's made over the years. So it's slim line with a pin loop, which you'll see it when you look at the picture. We'll have this in the show notes. You can take a look at that. So it's just as slim and sized as the notebook is. But it also has a pin slot for many pins like Fisher Space pins, things like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Side Rose wants to know, are there alternative refill options for the Zebra 301A? I love the body, but find the ballpoint refill it comes with to be too dry and scratchy. This is a tough one because it's a really popular pin. The 301A is the more recent counterpart to the historically extremely popular Zebra F301. If you see the F301, you'll know exactly what they're talking about. They're one of the most popular pins you can get at the store, like at the office supply store. You can walk into a store and buy these pins or a grocery store shelf. They look cool. They can take a beating. But they don't write amazingly well. The bad news is I don't think there's a compatible refill. Not that I've seen. Like I looked on JetPens compatibility thing and they only sell the refill that's made to fit it. And it looks kind of not like any other refill that I've seen. There might be something. So we'll put a call out to the listeners if they have any 301 refills that they use. I caveat that with saying let's not hack too many things up at first. Like I appreciate a good hack, but that's generally not the answer people want. They want to just pop a refill in and go or maybe, you know, trim the end of the refill a little bit. But once we start getting to like tape and glue and huge modifications, that's generally not going to fly for most people. So if you have anything that fits in the Zebra F301, let me know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'd love to hear it. All right. So I'm going to read this next one. This wasn't really an ask TPA, but it was sent to us. So I wanted to see if we could provide any help to our good friend at HeyMatthew. I lost a Lamy 2000 Rollerball today that I had a pretty sentimental attachment to. The saddest part is that someone will probably find it and not know what they have and it will end up in a drunk drawer when it runs out of ink. I will just sleep over this thought. Brad, do you have any advice? Is there anything we can do to make Matthew feel better?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, he should keep his pens in an area where he shouldn't lose them. Shame on you, Matthew. Rip. Oh my God.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Was that not what you were expecting? No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So let me see. I just wanted to offer my apologies to Matthew for losing this pen, which has sentimental attachment to Brad, which means it's probably pretty important to him. All I can say is there will be more pens in your life that will have other sentimental value to them. Maybe you could buy a pen in honor of that pen and try and transfer some of the sentimentality over to it. I don't know. Yeah. I'm very sorry for Brad. Just in general and especially in this instance.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I will say the sentimental value is obviously not replaceable. If I was in Matthew's shoes, I would replace the pen with the same pen. Like if I have a very sentimental value to a pen, even though I'm not going to get the pure sentimentality that the original was, I would probably go ahead and get a replacement. So I continued to have that pen and could, you know, project and import those wonderful sentimental thoughts onto the new pen and, you know, hopefully not lose as much sleep. So I would be in the replacement camp, but that stinks. I hate that for Matthew.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There you go. You did a better job on the second try.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I love Matthew. I got to give him hell.