Editing The Pen Addict 208/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Adam Blaine:''' Well, I always have a pencil with whatever I'm using, like with the phantom pens, I don't get to use them a lot during the day just because I'm either taking really quick notes or jotting things down on paper. That's not phantom pen friendly. Um, so every day I'll also carry like, um, I always still have my Fisher space pen every day, but I'll also carry a pencil just because they, they work great during the day. Um, and they've always been woodcase pencils like the Blackwing. Uh, but when I got the, the Rotring to try out, that's definitely taken the Blackwing's pace quite a lot recently. Um, it's just great. It's just built really well. It just feels really nice to, to use. Um, it's like all the great features of a well-built pen, but works as a pencil. I just have fun with that one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I think there's a short list of products and I could probably come up with that list that are kind of like the all time greats, hall of fame, must own categories. Um, this would be one of them. Like if I had to say, Oh, you should own five stationary products. The Rotring 600 mechanical pencil has to be one of them. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree completely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's just, even for someone who's not into these things, you pick that up and you understand that's one of those kind of, Oh, this is how it should be moments when you've been using, you know, whatever big disposable, one of those yellow plastic pencil. You look at mechanical pencils. It's like, Oh, this is what it's supposed to be like. So whenever anyone reviews that, I like love to bring it up. Cause I want to hear like, you know, their thoughts about it. Cause I, it's, it's something everyone should own. Honestly, anyone who listens to this podcast probably should own a Rotring 600 just to understand what super high quality is. And it's honestly not that expensive. It's like a 30 to $35 mechanical pencil. So, and for, you know, someone who's not into these things, that sounds like a ton of money, but for what you get for the Rotring 600, it's cheap.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So the last thing I want to touch on, Adam, I want to know what's next. Like where, where you're, you're an award-winning blogger. You're a YouTube superstar. Where does it go from here? Like what's next at the desk?

'''Adam Blaine:''' That's a question I'm trying to ask myself as well. I don't know. I've still got a lot of things, like a lot of reviews and stuff for the blog and just carry on what I've been doing.

'''Adam Blaine:''' But expanding on it, I, I'm really not sure. I'm still trying to figure out after all these years, creating regular content for stuff. Um, that's a huge thing that I've been struggling with. Like actually making the time every other week or so to create content and make sure it goes up regularly. Um, so that's definitely something that I want to get a grasp of. Um, but I don't know. There's so many things that it can, it can lead onto. Um, I mean, like Tessa said, launching her store. I don't know if I'd go down the same route as that, but I definitely can't wait for hers. Um, we definitely need to make that happen and make sure that's 100% going to happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I want to, before I forget, I didn't write this down. Um, I want to allow you to brag on what you did for your sister because I watched that in your, your video. Um, you know, your sister has a website up that you developed. And so why don't you, why don't you talk about that real quick?

'''Adam Blaine:''' Yeah, well, she has quite a big following on YouTube and her blog for crafts. She does a lot of tutorials for crochet. Um, and we decided last year to build a store for that. That was kind of like the natural progression for her. Um, so I don't really class myself as a web developer. Um, but I used what little knowledge I had to build a store, uh, which we're now running together, uh, which has taken up a lot of the time this year, which is why there hasn't been so much content. Um, but it's, it's been a fun thing. We always work well together. Um, and I'm really proud of how it turned out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I, I was browsing around it, you know, I'm not into it. But there's a, there's a ton of crossover in, you know, like knitting, crocheting and like the pen and stationary where there's a ton of crossover. You see a ton of similarities in the people that are into those types of things. So I thought that was really cool. How y'all, how y'all teamed up to do something like that. And it looks fantastic. I can tell you put a ton of work into it. So great job there. Um, I, I think that's about a wrap unless you have anything else, Myke, we want to make sure, uh, you know, Adam, you, you tell everyone where everyone can find you so they can come read all your stuff, watch all your videos, tell everyone where you're at online.

'''Adam Blaine:''' Yeah. I'm on all social media. It's at desk of Adam on Twitter, Instagram, uh, Facebook, YouTube is the same as well. Just search desk of Adam, um, or the blog is desk of Adam.com and everything can be found on there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Myke loves you for making that easy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's the best. Try. Yeah. So you can also find a list of all of the links for this episode, including everything Adam mentioned over at relay.fm slash pen addict slash two zero eight. Um, if you want to find Brad online, he is at pen addict.com and knock.co. Uh, he's on Twitter. He's at dowdyism, D O W D Y I S M. And also on Instagram at pen addict. I am. I Myke, I M Y K E on both. Uh, thanks again to Pen Chalet and Squarespace for supporting this week's show. And we'll be back next time. Thank you so much to Adam for joining us. Thank you for listening until then say goodbye guys. Goodbye guys. Oh, perfectly in sync.

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