Editing The Pen Addict 67/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Notebooks ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' My last two. Go hand in hand. As if some sort of magic has occurred. They were. Use more notebooks. And subscribe to Field Notes Colors. So. I subscribed to Field Notes Color Edition. And started using more notebooks. Basically.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's the way that happened. That one's a resounding yes. I'm going with. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. Most definitely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've. I. Since subscribing to the Field Notes. I've become even more involved in them. Than before. I'm really happy that I did. And because I've now got them. Appearing all the time. I've actually started using them more. As you know. From listening to previous episodes. And I'm flying through. And I love having this notebook. In my pocket all the time. I take a lot more notes. Than I did before. Um. I'm mixing them all up. And you know. It's. It's working out really well for me. I'm. I'm really. Really happy that I did it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good. That's awesome. I like to hear that. And. You know. I like. Even. I may not be. As prolific. As some people going through their Field Notes notebooks. Using them. I love to see. The notebooks being used. Um. I think they. I mean. They look even better. After they've been used. Than when they look new. You know. I love them. People take. Take the shot. Take the pictures of.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I love them getting all beaten up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean. That's. That's part of the deal. Right. I mean. That's. That's what they're for. I mean. I know we talk about the collecting aspect. And how expensive. You know. Some of these old issues of getting people are collecting them. And. And. Believe me. I'm right there. You know. From a completionist standpoint. You know. Wanted to get. You know. Something from each edition. But. The. Actual use. Of them. And. Completion. And. The wear. And the. The fullness of the notebook. That's what I enjoy the most. That's. I enjoy seeing those. More than anything. More than seeing. You know. The rare colors editions coming up for sale on eBay. Which. They all of a sudden are. Now that this field group. Field notes group is active. The eBay market has gone berserk again. But. That's. We'll save that for another episode. Um. But yeah. That's. That's awesome. I think that's. It sounds like we did pretty good. On our resolutions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. We do actually. I mean. I. Maybe didn't succeed on one of them. But. In full. Maybe as much as I thought that I would. But. Um. I'm not. I'm not unhappy with that actually.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Really. I mean. You. You figured out what works for you. Right. I mean. That's. That's part of the deal. You know. You. You looked at it. And you decided. You made a decision. And. It's working. I mean. No one can argue with that. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think so. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And. I was. I couldn't remember what I had said in this episode. And when I remembered the whole notebook diatribe that I went into. You know. I was. I think I have improved in that aspect. I'm pretty happy with that. And. I think it's only going to get better. I'm getting more and more organized. You know. Forcibly. So. I'm just. You know. Busy. Busy. Busy. And. You know. That's why I had to reach out and get some help with the blog. And. And things like that. There's lots going on. So. Getting that notebook consolidation helped. And. Even just. You know. My. My day to day life. And. And things like that. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Very happy with how our resolutions. Ended up. So. Thank you. Tony. I hope it was you who sent that. Myke's going to get mad at me if it's not. But I'm pretty certain it is. So. If you are actually. The actual owner of this topic. Who sent it to me. You can. You can. How can they get in touch with this mic. And. And yell at me saying. Hey. That was my idea.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can get in touch with us. Over Twitter. And app. Dot. Net. I am. I Myke. I am. Y. K. E. Brad is. At Dowdy. D. O. W. D. Y. On. App. Net. And Dowdy. Ism. D. O. W. D. Y. I. S. M. On. Twitter. Also. You can get Brad. At. The pen addict. At. Gmail. Dot. Com. And he also writes. At. Pen addict. Dot. Com. And you found your. Apprentice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did. I did. So that. Boy. That was. That was not. An easy. Task. By. Any stretch. Of the imagination. It was so. So hard. I got. I got lots of emails. Thank you. Everyone. Who sent in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Your emails. To. To my help. Wanted post. The. The quality. Of emails. That I. I got. Was astounding. I. I don't. I. I want to say. I got probably close to 75. People. 75 emails.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't. I don't think. There was a single. Email. That I could dismiss. Immediately. That's how quality. Everyone was. So that makes my decision. Really hard. Because you know. I could only pick one person. And. I had to figure out a way to. You know. Will it. Will it down to that one person. I got it down. It took me. Several days. To get it down to maybe like. Eight or ten. I felt pretty good with. And then. You know. I had some. Conversations. With those people. And narrowed it down to one. And. It was a near impossible. Task. Because there were so many good. So many good responses. But yes. I have it narrowed down. So hopefully. We will. Get everything. Finalized. And we'll see. See a new name. Posting on the. On the pen act. Here in the coming weeks. Alongside myself. Nothing's going to change for me. I should be able to keep my same schedule. The same. Kind of the same. Path that I'm going down right now. Where I do about two reviews. A week. The podcast. And the ink links. So I'm hoping to add in. I'm not. I don't think I'm going to replace. The one. The second review that I do. With this new person's review. I think it'll be in addition to. Which I think will be great.