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== Pilot Inks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. So BreezeJunk wants to know, what's the difference between Pilot Namiki inks and regular Pilot inks? Nothing but an awesome bottle. So if you want regular Pilot, blue or black, the Namiki is the same, and it comes in a way more awesomer bottle. Although the larger Pilot ink bottles are pretty cool in their own right, but the small regular Pilot bottles are not. But it's basic blue and black. I don't even know if Namiki has the blue-black. It might just be blue and black. But they're great bottles. Ben Crumback. So after all this time, do the two of you still have Grail pens? If so, what are they and why? So this comes into play related to my LA pen show trip. There was nothing I was necessarily looking for. I was browsing. I didn't have like a must-have on my list. If there's anything, I would probably sell some of my pens and get a next level Nakaya. You know, like an Ascending Dragon or some of these other pens that I really, really love. But it's not like I'm not on a quest to end up with one of those, right? It's if I cleared out enough space and sold enough pens to afford something like that, I might do that, but it's not on the must-have list. What about you, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that my current Grail is what I keep talking about, right? It is the King of Pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's it. That's the only thing on my list. I mean, okay, so the Pink Love doesn't count. It's not like a Grail pen. It's just like a design that I cover. Right. But like the pen that I hold in the highest esteem right now is the ProGear King of Pen. So that's what I'm covering. That's my Grail pen, and that will be mine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But Ben, I'm finding I'm really happy with all the stuff I have right now, and I'll actually be selling off some of it because I'm so happy with such a smaller group of pens overall than the amount of pens I own. So I'll be consolidating hopefully later this year. And that might turn into like a singular purchase by the time I get done. So we'll see. We will certainly explore this more. All right, last question. And this goes back to Toffer's question from last week about saving notebooks in a more permanent fashion. So before I get into this email from Lynn, and I got another email, and I forget the writer because I didn't put it in the show notes. But he said, you know, I like it when you ask questions to get listener feedback, but please make sure you follow up because, you know, sometimes you may not in the past or sometimes it might take multiple weeks. And it's hard if people aren't, you know, don't follow every episode. It's hard to get the follow-up to the question. I thought that was a very fair thing to say. And he specifically said, because I want to know about the notebooks. So we didn't get much feedback on this, to be perfectly honest. Perfectly honest. I got one Twitter conversation about Ziplocs, and I still have some questions about using those with air tightness and chemical, plastic chemicals.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what Lynn did was email me, and I'm just going to read this, and this really kind of struck home with me. So she says, hello, Brad. I have an answer to your question about storing old journals and notebooks, but it's from a contrarian perspective. Don't save them. I realize there may be some small amount that we each write that would truly be of value to someone else years from now, but it's probably a lot less than we might think. And I always wonder, who will have that task of going through all those bins decades from now? Will it be me, and is that what I'm going to want to do at that point in my life? Probably not. Will it be one of my siblings or children when I'm no longer here? And how much will they want this chore? Not only is there the burden of their time and energy to do this, but also the emotional toll of throwing out something that I decided to save. I don't want to inflict that on someone I love. So my advice is to take great enjoyment from using that journal, and then when it's filled up, throw it out. I thought that was amazing because I've had two family members in the past two years where my parents have had to go, and I'll just get weeks' worth of emails saying, oh my God, all this stuff. And at that point, when you're overwhelmed already with loss, having to deal with extra burdens of deciding what to do with stuff, maybe you don't need it. Maybe think about it from that perspective. So I thought this was a great perspective. You know, it may not be for everybody. You may want to save everything and make sure these things are handed down from generation from generation. That's awesome. But I think considering the other side where you might be unknowingly burdening someone at a time where they really don't need a burden, that's something to consider as well. So great response, Len.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or scan them. Yeah. Like if you think that the content is like super important, then scan them and save them. And so then nobody has to like physically take them to the dump, right? Like in 60 years time or whatever. And then also, then you don't even have to worry if you want to keep them still. You can still keep them and you've got digital copies. It doesn't matter if they get ruined. And then also, you will realize at that point if it really is worth going for the effort, right? Because scanning takes a long time so that maybe you'll be a bit more like picky about what it is exactly you're going to keep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Absolutely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah, I thought that was a very good perspective. I like that. There's definitely, there's definitely, you know, there's two sides to it. And it's something that, that both should be very, very considered because we don't always think about those things. I know I certainly didn't until I started getting phone calls and texts constantly with lots of OMGs in it from, you know, unfortunate, you know, people passing away in my life and watching my parents have to deal with that going, wow, maybe I should rethink a couple of things. So this came in at a good time. Thank you, Lynn. It's time for a spring clean,

'''Myke Hurley:''' right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's time for us to wrap up this show, Michael Hurley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. If you want to catch our show notes this week, you want to go over to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 296. I want to take a moment again to thank our sponsors, Harry's Blue Apron and Zola for helping make this show possible. Brad is at penaddict.com and knock.co. He is at dowdyism on Twitter, penaddict on Instagram. I am imike, I-M-Y-K-E. If you want a new show to listen to, I will recommend the show that I have just started with a friend of the show, Tiffany Arment. It's called Playing for Fun. It is a show ostensibly about video games, but like this show is two people that love a thing and just love to talk about that thing, that's what Playing for Fun is but for video games with the caveat that we only talk about the good stuff. So there is no bad stuff. We don't talk about any bad stuff on Playing for Fun. We pick a video game and then we just talk about all of the things that we love about it. So that's at relay.fm slash playing for fun. It also has the greatest artwork and music. It does. It's awesome. I think of any Relay FM show. It's wonderful. It's wonderful, wonderful. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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