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	'''Brad:''' You're going to buy a lot of stuff.		'''Brad:''' You're going to buy a lot of stuff.

	'''Myke:''' I mean, that's part of it. That's kind of like the end. I'm just going to buy it all there. But no, it's like I could bring a lot of stuff. But what I found, the more shows I go to, which is, you know, this is back, you know, pre-COVID. The more shows I go to, the more stuff I see that's accessible to more people. So I don't need to necessarily travel across country with like 50 pins, right, for like show and tell. Because it's covered. Like a lot of people have a lot of things covered, right? So a lot of my goal in bringing things to ~~Penn~~ Show was to share things with people that they've never seen before or wanted to try out for the first time. Maybe it could be just like a Lamy 2000 or something. I've never tried one. And I was like, you know, now we have these opportunities. Like the whole community and business effort to get products in people's hands has really kind of escalated to where there is a lot more like freedom of product movement around the show to where you're able to try something before you buy it and test things out. So, yeah, I do like doing that. But there's been less benefit for me to worry about packing all of those things. Like especially if I'm like doing plane travel and having to ink up a bunch of pens or even just taking a bunch of pens and not inking them and inking them when I get there. So what I'm doing is I'm not going to bring any inked fountain pens, I don't think. Maybe one if I'm feeling frisky and want something just, you know, while I'm waiting around at the airport or something like that to use. I'm bringing three fountain pens that I'm going to get worked on, which we'll talk about in a minute. But like that's it. Like I'm not going to bring a whole bunch of inked up fountain pens unless someone reaches out. Like a bunch of people have reached out to me, say, hey, can you bring this? Can you bring that? But it just so happens I am bringing a bunch of the things to get worked on already and I'll just ink them up while I'm there. So my plans for the show, since I'm not bringing much, is the first thing on Friday morning when I'm there is I'm going to get a new plotter. So I have an appointment. Plotter is doing like custom builds of their notebooks. So I have an appointment like 10, 12 in the morning on Friday. So like right out the gate. And that's going to be my notebook to carry around the show and use. Right. I do like to have a notebook, especially if I'm spending a long time at a show, a fountain pen friendly notebook to test things in, whether it's inks or pens or nibs, things like that. Just something to jot things down. And plotter has some smaller sizes that I'm interested in, like the Bible size or the forget what they call the even smaller one. Mini, I think. So I'm going to check out, see which smaller size plotter I want. And I'm going to buy that right out the jump. Then I'm going straight over to Misubi and straight over to Cornell to check out their new notebooks. So I'm going to be like flush with notebooks from from the jump at the show. So I'm not going to pack my own notebooks outside. Maybe a pocket notebook. Normally, like in Atlanta, I brought my William Hanna Plana where I have like eight or ten different paper types in there to test. Like, I think we're going to be covered. Like, I don't necessarily need to overpack my own stationery to travel across the country with. But coming home, Myke, we will be overloaded with goods. So, yes, you were right in the beginning. It's because I'm going to be buying it there. But this paper, like, I just want to get this, you know, right out the gate. A lot of times on a Friday morning or a Saturday morning or even sometimes Sunday morning, companies will put out their limited edition stuff. So I will grab a couple of things that I don't want to miss out on on those early hours when I get to the show. Also on Friday, I'm going to hang out at Rickshaw for a little bit. Talk about the Sinclair. You know, I don't have anything scheduled or anything like that. But, you know, the Sinclair launch is happening at the San Francisco ~~Penn~~ Show. So I'm excited about that. I have a bunch of Sinclairs that I'm bringing. I'm very, very much going to be excited about that. So I look forward to that. And then probably by like noon on Friday, we take a breath. Like I'm already like super, super anxious just talking about it. So by lunchtime on Friday, we're going to chill. We're going to eat lunch and then we're just going to browse the show. Right. So that's the hardest thing for first or second time ~~Penn~~ Show attendees is to not get overwhelmed. And just listening to myself talk, I can tell I'm just already overwhelming myself. But like that's OK in moderation. Let's just do the things I want to right out the gate Friday and then rest of Friday is just kind of free to browse around. Hang out. See all my friends. You know, go go to all the tables. Go do all that stuff and just chill and then have a nice calmer rest of the day because I know I have Saturday and Sunday to handle anything that I really need to do. So Saturday, I'm taking my first class like my first. I really have to think about it. I've taken like some free classes at shows, but this is the first time I've done like the paid class thing. So I'll be doing the paper class and I'm sure we will talk about Tomoe River a lot in this paper class that I'm taking on Saturday. I look forward to that. And then Saturday at the show, I will be in and out of the show floor a lot because it'll be super crowded. Right. Like I would make since I'll have Friday, you know, to explore Saturday, I'll make some more direct, you know, things like if I want to see something at a certain table will make us point to see that. But we'll probably hop in and out of the show a lot on Saturday and probably just do a lot of sitting and hanging out, you know, especially as the day gets on and it gets more crowded and you get a little bit tireder. And, you know, so it'll just be a lot of just hanging out and not doing anything in particular. Then Myke kind of came up out of the blue Saturday night. We're going to have a get together with myself, CY from Tokyo Inklings, April and Kelly from Stationery Cafe, Drew from the Goulet Pencast. We're going to have a little Q&A session in one of the ballrooms there. And then we're just going to have like a journaling hangout, just like, you know, fun, you know, get out your journals. And and mess around and just kind of mix and mingle. So Saturday night. So that came up, came up here in the past week. I put some details in the on my Instagram page, but we'll have a link to that in the show notes. And you could just show up to that. Right. It's like nothing official. I don't know that it's going to be recorded or video. Maybe someone will. Maybe I will. But it'll just be a fun little hangout. Sunday is actually when I do most of my heavy lifting. Right. So when you're there for a full weekend, Friday, when you get there, you kind of get the things that aren't going to be around all weekend. Right. The stuff you really, really don't want to miss out on. And then it'll probably be Sunday before I start picking up things like for review, for the blog, for giveaways. Like I'll do a lot of buying on Sunday and I'll also get my nib work done on Sunday. Mostly like I have an appointment with JC at the nib tailor. Like I think that's the first time I've signed up online for an appointment. Like I'm doing all these things that are different for me at pen shows. So, you know, with the different pens that I brought to get nib work done. So Sunday, like I feel like by then I've gotten, you know, I know what's going on on the show floor. So I can just finalize anything that needs to come home with me, either personal related like nib work or work related like review items. We do all that on Sunday. We make lots of trips to the room on Sunday to offload offload products so we don't have to carry them around. So that's kind of like what my show just in a big picture way kind of looks like. And then by Sunday night, I will just be chilling out in my hotel room and writing up the show recap, hopefully by that night for Panatic members. But that's kind of the overview. I don't have a big shopping list. I rarely do have a big shopping list for shows, but there are a couple of things. I want to check out one Toyocacraft is going to be there, Myke. So that that could be problematic. I'm going to look at the smaller stuff like some trays that, you know, I can travel home with. Right. I obviously can't get any of the big bulky stuff of and fly home with it, nor do I want to ship it home.		'''Myke:''' I mean, that's part of it. That's kind of like the end. I'm just going to buy it all there. But no, it's like I could bring a lot of stuff. But what I found, the more shows I go to, which is, you know, this is back, you know, pre-COVID. The more shows I go to, the more stuff I see that's accessible to more people. So I don't need to necessarily travel across country with like 50 pins, right, for like show and tell. Because it's covered. Like a lot of people have a lot of things covered, right? So a lot of my goal in bringing things to Pen Show was to share things with people that they've never seen before or wanted to try out for the first time. Maybe it could be just like a Lamy 2000 or something. I've never tried one. And I was like, you know, now we have these opportunities. Like the whole community and business effort to get products in people's hands has really kind of escalated to where there is a lot more like freedom of product movement around the show to where you're able to try something before you buy it and test things out. So, yeah, I do like doing that. But there's been less benefit for me to worry about packing all of those things. Like especially if I'm like doing plane travel and having to ink up a bunch of pens or even just taking a bunch of pens and not inking them and inking them when I get there. So what I'm doing is I'm not going to bring any inked fountain pens, I don't think. Maybe one if I'm feeling frisky and want something just, you know, while I'm waiting around at the airport or something like that to use. I'm bringing three fountain pens that I'm going to get worked on, which we'll talk about in a minute. But like that's it. Like I'm not going to bring a whole bunch of inked up fountain pens unless someone reaches out. Like a bunch of people have reached out to me, say, hey, can you bring this? Can you bring that? But it just so happens I am bringing a bunch of the things to get worked on already and I'll just ink them up while I'm there. So my plans for the show, since I'm not bringing much, is the first thing on Friday morning when I'm there is I'm going to get a new plotter. So I have an appointment. Plotter is doing like custom builds of their notebooks. So I have an appointment like 10, 12 in the morning on Friday. So like right out the gate. And that's going to be my notebook to carry around the show and use. Right. I do like to have a notebook, especially if I'm spending a long time at a show, a fountain pen friendly notebook to test things in, whether it's inks or pens or nibs, things like that. Just something to jot things down. And plotter has some smaller sizes that I'm interested in, like the Bible size or the forget what they call the even smaller one. Mini, I think. So I'm going to check out, see which smaller size plotter I want. And I'm going to buy that right out the jump. Then I'm going straight over to Misubi and straight over to Cornell to check out their new notebooks. So I'm going to be like flush with notebooks from from the jump at the show. So I'm not going to pack my own notebooks outside. Maybe a pocket notebook. Normally, like in Atlanta, I brought my William Hanna Plana where I have like eight or ten different paper types in there to test. Like, I think we're going to be covered. Like, I don't necessarily need to overpack my own stationery to travel across the country with. But coming home, Myke, we will be overloaded with goods. So, yes, you were right in the beginning. It's because I'm going to be buying it there. But this paper, like, I just want to get this, you know, right out the gate. A lot of times on a Friday morning or a Saturday morning or even sometimes Sunday morning, companies will put out their limited edition stuff. So I will grab a couple of things that I don't want to miss out on on those early hours when I get to the show. Also on Friday, I'm going to hang out at Rickshaw for a little bit. Talk about the Sinclair. You know, I don't have anything scheduled or anything like that. But, you know, the Sinclair launch is happening at the San Francisco Pen Show. So I'm excited about that. I have a bunch of Sinclairs that I'm bringing. I'm very, very much going to be excited about that. So I look forward to that. And then probably by like noon on Friday, we take a breath. Like I'm already like super, super anxious just talking about it. So by lunchtime on Friday, we're going to chill. We're going to eat lunch and then we're just going to browse the show. Right. So that's the hardest thing for first or second time Pen Show attendees is to not get overwhelmed. And just listening to myself talk, I can tell I'm just already overwhelming myself. But like that's OK in moderation. Let's just do the things I want to right out the gate Friday and then rest of Friday is just kind of free to browse around. Hang out. See all my friends. You know, go go to all the tables. Go do all that stuff and just chill and then have a nice calmer rest of the day because I know I have Saturday and Sunday to handle anything that I really need to do. So Saturday, I'm taking my first class like my first. I really have to think about it. I've taken like some free classes at shows, but this is the first time I've done like the paid class thing. So I'll be doing the paper class and I'm sure we will talk about Tomoe River a lot in this paper class that I'm taking on Saturday. I look forward to that. And then Saturday at the show, I will be in and out of the show floor a lot because it'll be super crowded. Right. Like I would make since I'll have Friday, you know, to explore Saturday, I'll make some more direct, you know, things like if I want to see something at a certain table will make us point to see that. But we'll probably hop in and out of the show a lot on Saturday and probably just do a lot of sitting and hanging out, you know, especially as the day gets on and it gets more crowded and you get a little bit tireder. And, you know, so it'll just be a lot of just hanging out and not doing anything in particular. Then Myke kind of came up out of the blue Saturday night. We're going to have a get together with myself, CY from Tokyo Inklings, April and Kelly from Stationery Cafe, Drew from the Goulet Pencast. We're going to have a little Q&A session in one of the ballrooms there. And then we're just going to have like a journaling hangout, just like, you know, fun, you know, get out your journals. And and mess around and just kind of mix and mingle. So Saturday night. So that came up, came up here in the past week. I put some details in the on my Instagram page, but we'll have a link to that in the show notes. And you could just show up to that. Right. It's like nothing official. I don't know that it's going to be recorded or video. Maybe someone will. Maybe I will. But it'll just be a fun little hangout. Sunday is actually when I do most of my heavy lifting. Right. So when you're there for a full weekend, Friday, when you get there, you kind of get the things that aren't going to be around all weekend. Right. The stuff you really, really don't want to miss out on. And then it'll probably be Sunday before I start picking up things like for review, for the blog, for giveaways. Like I'll do a lot of buying on Sunday and I'll also get my nib work done on Sunday. Mostly like I have an appointment with JC at the nib tailor. Like I think that's the first time I've signed up online for an appointment. Like I'm doing all these things that are different for me at pen shows. So, you know, with the different pens that I brought to get nib work done. So Sunday, like I feel like by then I've gotten, you know, I know what's going on on the show floor. So I can just finalize anything that needs to come home with me, either personal related like nib work or work related like review items. We do all that on Sunday. We make lots of trips to the room on Sunday to offload offload products so we don't have to carry them around. So that's kind of like what my show just in a big picture way kind of looks like. And then by Sunday night, I will just be chilling out in my hotel room and writing up the show recap, hopefully by that night for Panatic members. But that's kind of the overview. I don't have a big shopping list. I rarely do have a big shopping list for shows, but there are a couple of things. I want to check out one Toyocacraft is going to be there, Myke. So that that could be problematic. I'm going to look at the smaller stuff like some trays that, you know, I can travel home with. Right. I obviously can't get any of the big bulky stuff of and fly home with it, nor do I want to ship it home.

	'''Brad:''' Hey, if they got it there, Brad, you can get it back. You know, they got it there.		'''Brad:''' Hey, if they got it there, Brad, you can get it back. You know, they got it there.
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	'''Myke:''' They're just sitting there. They're just sitting there.		'''Myke:''' They're just sitting there. They're just sitting there.

	'''Brad:''' Well, I hope you have fun at the San Francisco ~~Penn~~ Show. Yep. I look forward to it. I look forward to a full report on next week's episode. And then we will not talk about the San Francisco ~~Penn~~ Show for 11 and a half more months.		'''Brad:''' Well, I hope you have fun at the San Francisco Pen Show. Yep. I look forward to it. I look forward to a full report on next week's episode. And then we will not talk about the San Francisco Pen Show for 11 and a half more months.

	'''Myke:''' Allegedly.		'''Myke:''' Allegedly.

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{{Infobox podcast transcript
| name = The Pen Addict
| number = 527
| title = 1-800-FIX-NIBS
| date = August 24th, 2022
| hosts = [[Brad Dowdy]]<br>
[[Myke Hurley]]
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| link = [https://www.relay.fm/penaddict/527 Episode 527]
| audiolink = [https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thepenaddict/The_Pen_Addict_527.mp3 Audio Episode 527]
| length = 56
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