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== Letter Writing ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Eric Govro says it's February. Inco, Rhimo and correspondence in general. So he's asking, are we letter writers, Myke? Are you a letter writer?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm about to start writing letters.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Now, are you doing it because of the letter writing month? No. Or are you just trying to do, just trying to do something a little bit different?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I want to just try that out a little bit, play around a little bit more with that sort of stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm totally on board with the, uh, Inco, Rhimo. I just haven't had the time to commit to that. So maybe next year I might get into that. It's where you write a letter a day in February and, you know, there's a whole, whole group of people, you know, you can get all kinds of addresses and send out these letters and you'll get letters back and things like that. It's a cool idea. It's good ways to use your, um, pens and stationery, um, for, for letter writing. Um, so I haven't, I've, I've been on the receiving end of some letters. Um, some people wanted to send me some letters and, and Myke some letters. So, um, but, uh, maybe next year I might actually participate. So this was a good, this is a good question. And, and we got, we have a lot more questions. I'm going to, I'll work on some of these for another podcast, but this one I wanted to get to because I think it's important. Since you've gotten into fountain pens, have any of your previous favorite micro gel pens been completely dropped from rotation? So the short answer is no. Um, my favorite micro gel pens are the Pilot Hi-Tech C and the Uniball Sino DX. I always have those with me at all times and I use them frequently. Um, so they don't get dropped at all. Um, that said, I, I obviously use them less. I mean, I only, I only write with one hand. I don't know about you, Myke. Do you write two handed?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sometimes four.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Four handed? Okay. So I can only use one pen at a time. So yeah, they've gone down the list of usage, but dropped completely. Not at all because I like them too much. They provide something different that a fountain pen can't, um, can't provide. And I get, I get huge enjoyment from writing with these pens. Um, that's what, you know, got me into this pen blogging thing to, to begin with was these micro gel ink pens. And, um, I, they will never not be in my rotation. Do they get used less? Yeah, they do because I've only got so many hours at a day, but they are always with me. Um, those are the two primary ones. Um, far and away my favorite. Um, how about you, Myke? Have you seen like your, you were never a micro gel guy to begin with, but just in general, have you noticed, you know, pens you've used in the past getting put to the wayside if using fountain pens?

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you're playing bingo, I've given you multiple opportunities this week, but I mean, I don't use the retro 51 anymore. Like I have, I used to use that every single day. Like I don't, I don't really use those anymore. Right. Um, I tend to just use fountain pens unless I'm grabbing something in a pinch, you know? So I'll grab something out of like the, out of the groove or whatever and use that. So that might be like, uh, the autographic liner or the secure a big more micron or something like that. I've been thinking recently that maybe I should try some gel pens again. Okay. But I don't know what to go for really. So micro is not, I still don't think I'm going to be a micro gel person.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure. No, that's understandable. But I mean, if I, if I went in my backpack right now, I have a retro 51. I have an auto graphic liner. I have a Uniball Sino DX. I have a high tech C. I have a secure pigment micron. Did I say that already?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. No, no, I did. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So those are, I mean, those are stalwarts. I mean, those are not going anywhere for me. Yeah. They get used less, but I couldn't live without them. I use them for different things and I get complete enjoyment out of writing with, you know, a $2 micron as much as I get with a $200 sailor. So it just, it just depends. So there's a bunch of questions that I didn't get to today. I'm going to save all these off and maybe we'll cover them next week or I'll mix them in or I'll get back to everyone on Twitter because there's some good questions. There's actually some questions I want to expand on and, you know, I'm definitely going to do a, I got some questions about pen shows and we're going to do a full pen show episode as I get closer to going to the Atlanta pen show this year. So maybe in a few weeks we'll do a pen show episode, you know, with my wish list. And there were some questions we got, I got about vintage pens and things like that. So we'll cover all that when I do a pen show episode here in a few weeks. So that will be, that will be good. But everyone else whose questions aren't here, thank y'all so much for sending these and I will definitely answer all of these other questions. Just, we could keep going for another hour probably with all the questions I got, which is what's so amazing about our listeners. But I wanted to wrap it up on one final question, Myke. You ready?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What pen would you use to sign a birth certificate?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Visionaire.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. I mean, that's... That's what it was made for. This is from our friend, informal scribble, Mr. Stuart Haisley. I mean, there's no doubt we would use the Visionaire, Stuart. I can't believe you would even ask that question.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, that's what it's made for. This is the whole purpose. Yeah. How is that even a question? So, all right, Myke. I think that's a wrap.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We've mentioned show notes a few times in this week's episode. If you want to find them, go to 5x5.tv slash penaddict slash 93.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In all honesty, I'll buy something for the occasion.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a good move. And I'll answer that. I'll answer this, honestly, because I've actually had two kids. My wife's had two kids. Yeah, what did you use? I've had to sign birth certificates. Didn't even cross my mind. I was a little preoccupied.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Even you, I still would have... Even in that instance, I still would have expected you to pick something. Like weeks in advance, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know, I know. Didn't even cross my mind either time. You used like a biro or something. Yeah. I mean, whatever the nurse handed me or whatever. So, yeah. Hopefully she had good taste. Probably not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to catch us online, there's a couple of ways to do that. You can read Brad's stuff over at penaddict.com. And he's at dowdyism on Twitter. That's D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. And I am iMike. I-M-Y-K-E. That's it for this week's episode of The Pen Addict. Thank you so much for listening. Until next time, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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