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== Morning Glory Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'd say that's probably right. Like I, like the review I did today for the morning glory, which I wanted to get out fast cause I didn't have a lot of time with it before it launched at jet pins. I probably did that one from start to finish, including photography and editing and writing, um, and probably like an hour, but that's like a dedicated hour and it might even take a little bit longer. It's, it just doesn't go that fast. And that was a short review. Um, when I did the Lamy 2000 a few weeks ago, just the written part of that one, I think probably took me at least two hours and that doesn't include any photography, any handwritten samples, any editing, any photography editing. So, I mean, I could have spent, you know, three or more hours just on one review. Um, so if you do that multiple times a week, it's, yeah, I'm looking at probably I'd say eight hours and that's probably conservative. It's probably eight to 10. It takes, it takes a lot of time to, to keep a consistent, uh, consistent blog up. So.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Mm-hmm. And that's not counting the time that you spend double checking to see if you've got Twitter questions or any of that and checking your email, reading through, like I get emails from a lot of, I mean, like if I add it all together, like it's, it's a, it's a part-time job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it is no doubt. And you know, that includes, you know, podcast prep for me and recording and, and all that stuff too. So that's, yeah, it, it's, it's not an hour or two a week. It's a, it's a, it's a good chunk. And that's after, you know, both of us, you know, work full-time and, you know, have other responsibilities too, but, um, we do it because we love it and it's fun. It's a great community, community to be a part of. And, um, it, it's thriving and, and, uh, it's such a positive place to be that I'm glad to do it and, uh, wouldn't want to do it, uh, any other way. I love doing it.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I do too. I do have days though, when it does, it's, I got a lot of commitments.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I know. I'm getting, I'm getting to the point now. I'm not going to lie to you where I've almost forgotten to make a post. I'll be like, Oh, I didn't do a post where I used to never be like that at all. I'd have them loaded out. And now I've been so busy. Like I'll get, you know, uh, the night before, you know, the next morning that I wanted to post like a few hours before I'm like, Oh my gosh, I didn't do a post for tomorrow. Do I have anything to give away? Cause that won't

'''Ana Reinert:''' take me very long. And I, I have a tendency to accumulate till the weekend and then I'll do like, I'll spend like an all day on Saturday doing nothing, but just testing like a lot of stuff. Like I have a couple products that I haven't had time to test, to figure out like, and I mean, some cases you test something and you're like, this isn't, it's not even worth reviewing. Like, I don't even want to talk about this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know I've gone through like the whole thing and gone, Oh, forget it.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. Forget it. I'm not telling anybody, I'm not going to, I'm not going to say terrible things about this product, but I've, I took an hour and a half testing and making sure it wasn't just me. It really is a crappy product, you know? And ultimately then there's other things that are good products that I want to give them their just do and give them time and not just whip something out because I'm trying to hit a deadline. So some stuff sits for a while.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. Exactly. But I do the same thing. I, on the weekends I'll spend, you know, three or four hour chunks just doing a bunch of stuff in one shot.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, good. Well, I think let's, I think let's wrap it up for today. We got, we could go on and on and on. That's why I like having you on here so much. And like I say, I always say we need to do it more frequently and we really do. So I really, really appreciate you coming on today and joining me on the show. So why don't you tell, I know you're, the blog for everyone is at wellappointeddesk.com. So tell everyone where you're at on Twitter or how they can, how you like to be reached.

'''Ana Reinert:''' You can reach me on Twitter at wellapptdesk.com. And I'm also on app.net at ANA.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. And you can find me at penaddict.com. I'm on Twitter at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. I'm on app.net at dowdy, D-O-W-D-Y. And if you need to contact me, there's a contact link at the top of my website. And it was fun as always, Ana. I really appreciate it. And you take care.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Thank you. Thanks so much for having me on the show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You got it. I'll talk to you soon.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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