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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no. I was like, what did you just say? I literally go, did you just say CGP Grey? And he's like, yeah. He's like, I don't know. I was just trying to get the answer. And I was like, yeah, that wasn't what I was getting at. So, anyway, it was just funny. He was being the me he wanted to be at that time. I guess so. It was great. All right. Let's talk about getting ready for next year real quick. And let's start with our friends at Pen Chalet.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no. I was like, what did you just say? I literally go, did you just say CGP Grey? And he's like, yeah. He's like, I don't know. I was just trying to get the answer. And I was like, yeah, that wasn't what I was getting at. So, anyway, it was just funny. He was being the me he wanted to be at that time. I guess so. It was great. All right. Let's talk about getting ready for next year real quick. And let's start with our friends at Pen Chalet.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' This is a great way to get ready. Go to ~~PennChalet~~.com. P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. At the moment, I'm just going to tell you straight up. Ron said, tell everyone we're having a huge year-end inventory, as he called it, blowout sale. Yep. Now, I feel like if Pen Chalet are having a blowout sale, there's going to be some incredible deals available to you. They have the products that you are looking for from the brands that you love. They add new stuff all the time. They have sales all the time. But every now and again, you get one of these very special sales. They have, you know, and we're going to look at some of this stuff. I know Brad's digging in as we speak right now. Yep. Yep. But they have fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils. They have carrying cases and pen holders and refills and converters and everything you are looking for. Pen Chalet sell internationally with great shipping rates. They also do free shipping on orders over $75 in the US. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to ~~PennChalet~~.com. P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. A podcast link at the top of the website and use the password of ~~Penn~~ Addict. You will find some special offers there and get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. Brad, what is catching your attention right now?		'''Myke Hurley:''' This is a great way to get ready. Go to PenChalet.com. P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. At the moment, I'm just going to tell you straight up. Ron said, tell everyone we're having a huge year-end inventory, as he called it, blowout sale. Yep. Now, I feel like if Pen Chalet are having a blowout sale, there's going to be some incredible deals available to you. They have the products that you are looking for from the brands that you love. They add new stuff all the time. They have sales all the time. But every now and again, you get one of these very special sales. They have, you know, and we're going to look at some of this stuff. I know Brad's digging in as we speak right now. Yep. Yep. But they have fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils. They have carrying cases and pen holders and refills and converters and everything you are looking for. Pen Chalet sell internationally with great shipping rates. They also do free shipping on orders over $75 in the US. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PenChalet.com. P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. A podcast link at the top of the website and use the password of Pen Addict. You will find some special offers there and get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. Brad, what is catching your attention right now?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, there's actually so much going on. I'm trying to decipher everything here. So on our normal page, you have your great deals. I am eyeballing the Diplomat E-Lox Ring Rollerball pens, which are really, really inexpensively priced relative to their fountain pen compatriots here. They're super low price. The Mayora is doing some really interesting materials and designs. It's a product I really like. They have a gold nib fountain pen, the Alpha K listed here for a crazy, like it's got to be over 50% off price here for a really nice gold nib fountain pen. Then you have your classics, your classic Visconti Homo Sapiens in here, which have a nice discount. And then what I'm trying to wrap my head around is all of the year end stuff on top of this. And I'm still just kind of fascinated with everything on this list. So the inventory reduction piece of this is like 10%, an extra 10% off of a lot of already discounted items. And there's a gift with purchase, like buying Narwhal pens, getting a free Odyssey A5 Tamoe River booklet and memo notebook with that. But I'm still going, there's so much here to kind of decipher. Like, I don't know that I can get it all in like one podcast segment here, Myke, but there is a lot of great deals. A lot of things you should check out. Just scroll through the list. So I'm looking at my little scroll bar on the window as I'm scrolling down this one page. I haven't made it like a quarter of the page down and I've already seen like 20 or 30 products.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, there's actually so much going on. I'm trying to decipher everything here. So on our normal page, you have your great deals. I am eyeballing the Diplomat E-Lox Ring Rollerball pens, which are really, really inexpensively priced relative to their fountain pen compatriots here. They're super low price. The Mayora is doing some really interesting materials and designs. It's a product I really like. They have a gold nib fountain pen, the Alpha K listed here for a crazy, like it's got to be over 50% off price here for a really nice gold nib fountain pen. Then you have your classics, your classic Visconti Homo Sapiens in here, which have a nice discount. And then what I'm trying to wrap my head around is all of the year end stuff on top of this. And I'm still just kind of fascinated with everything on this list. So the inventory reduction piece of this is like 10%, an extra 10% off of a lot of already discounted items. And there's a gift with purchase, like buying Narwhal pens, getting a free Odyssey A5 Tamoe River booklet and memo notebook with that. But I'm still going, there's so much here to kind of decipher. Like, I don't know that I can get it all in like one podcast segment here, Myke, but there is a lot of great deals. A lot of things you should check out. Just scroll through the list. So I'm looking at my little scroll bar on the window as I'm scrolling down this one page. I haven't made it like a quarter of the page down and I've already seen like 20 or 30 products.
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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I'm not going to be able to refine this much more for y'all right now. Other than to say, you really need to go look at all of the great deals that are happening right now at Pen Chalet for the year end. It looks like you have till Sunday to get, uh, to get in on, on most of this stuff. So yeah, go check it out. Yeah. There's my, my, uh, my homo sapiens lava that I like the white one that I have. That's, that's cheaper than I paid for mine. So yeah, that's, that's a good, there's some good deals in here. So I'm just scrolling down and kind of oohing and aahing at what's a good deal. Ooh, the Y studio resin fountain pen. One of my favorites cheaper than I paid for mine. So yeah, there's some good stuff here. Go check it out.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I'm not going to be able to refine this much more for y'all right now. Other than to say, you really need to go look at all of the great deals that are happening right now at Pen Chalet for the year end. It looks like you have till Sunday to get, uh, to get in on, on most of this stuff. So yeah, go check it out. Yeah. There's my, my, uh, my homo sapiens lava that I like the white one that I have. That's, that's cheaper than I paid for mine. So yeah, that's, that's a good, there's some good deals in here. So I'm just scrolling down and kind of oohing and aahing at what's a good deal. Ooh, the Y studio resin fountain pen. One of my favorites cheaper than I paid for mine. So yeah, there's some good stuff here. Go check it out.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' ~~Pennchalet~~.com. P E N C H A L E T.com. Our thanks to Pen Chalet for the continued support of this show. And Relay FM.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Penchalet.com. P E N C H A L E T.com. Our thanks to Pen Chalet for the continued support of this show. And Relay FM.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I did kind of want to hit a mini topic here this week because what I've found myself doing starting Monday was taking this opportunity the last week of the year to get ready for the first of 2023. So this is normally a down week for a lot of people, you know, they're either on vacation or taking off work. You know, the gap between say like the Christmas holiday and the new year that week is usually pretty quiet on the business front, on the personal front. It's a lot of rest, recuperation. But some people, you know, obviously are working, working like normal. And this is a normal week for me. This is a full work week for me because I've been off essentially like the week and a half leading up to Monday, right? Like between vacation and podcast schedules and blog schedules, we took the lead up into the Christmas weekend as my downtime. So now I'm on starting Monday, right? So full schedule. So one of the things I started to do was to get ready for 2023. And from a stationary perspective, what all does that entail? So number one, I'm kind of looking around at what I am actively using. What, you know, fountain pens do I have inked up that need to be cleaned, right? What notebooks on my desk need to be stored and put away? What old planners from previous years need to be audited? What planners for the new year need to be set up? You know, things like that. So like the main things I got done just on Monday, and I've been doing a little bit every day this week. So on Monday, I have essentially two desks I work from in my house. Where I'm sitting at right now is my streaming and podcasting desk, right? So I have a lot of accessories, a lot of things right at hand, and a lot of electronical equipment on here. So this is one desk. And then I have kind of like a separate writing and work desk in my bedroom. That is near my photo setup for taking photos. And that desk tends to get a lot of storage because I'm usually in here on the stream desk, you know, podcasting desk. I will just work here a lot of the days because I'm already spending hours of here on most days anyway. So my other desk ends up being storage. So I started cleaning it up. I literally got everything off of that desk that has been building up over the past several months, right? And this is the week to do that, right? To give you that fresh start into 2023. Hey, get all the stuff off the desk that you don't need. So in relation to that, I cleaned a bunch of fountain pens last week in preparation for wanting to ink up a bunch of new pens to start the year. That's just kind of something I want to do. Just gives me this fountain pen refresh. There's a bunch of pens I haven't been using, a bunch of inks I haven't been using that I'm really desperate to use. It's like my fancy Namiki that I haven't been using for a while. That's going to be the first thing that you can get inked up. My Elbowood Pocket Master, my celebration pen from earlier this year. I got a nib grind on it in San Francisco and I haven't really used it that much, right? So because I've had so many other pens and inks and everything rolling through. So I'm thinking about what pens I'm going to ink for 2023. In order to do that, I need to clean up a bunch of ink pens. I have two pens inked up right now. So, or two pens that I'm actively using inked up. My 823 Fujiyama Blue, you know, the Bunga Box 823 and the Pen Addict Bennu anniversary pen. So those I kept inked up. Everything else got cleaned out because I'm about to ink up probably six pens like this weekend or next week sometime. Then I really wanted to get my planner set up for 2023. I think we'll dig into that a little bit further next week. So next week I want you and I to talk about like our 2023 plans, ideas, goals, planners, specifically stationary things we're using, things I'm anxious to like get underway for next year. So we'll talk about that. But I was setting that up for 2023. So it's really been a productive week on the organizing, cleaning, separating out, storing, deciding on plans for all of my stationary to, you know, you can do it for any day. But, you know, obviously the first of the year is a really good break, breaking point to just kind of start something new. And what I want to do is start with a clean desk and a clean pen case and a clean notebook. So I've been doing all of those things this week to give me kind of a head start next week. And this goes for like digital cleanup too, right? Like I organize my notes in Ulysses to better utilize, you know, the different topics I'm covering, the type of content I want to create. So I spent some time digitally cleaning too, Myke. So like that's important. And this is a good time of week to get all of that stuff organized and get ready for 2023. So I'll be doing more of that this week. You know, I'm, I have to clean up this desk that I'm sitting at right now. It's got too many notebooks and too many pens sitting here from things that I've used and things that I've shown on stream or on the podcast. And it just kind of builds up like all the cruft builds up and like I'm looking at two ink bottles and some, you know, some pens that need to be stored away and just stuff that doesn't normally live on this desk needs to go. And now's the time to do it. So I just wanted to bring that up. So hopefully everyone can get ready for a great 2023 in the stationary world, get, get writing, get planning, get motivated to use the things that you have. And yeah, I am getting myself ready and getting excited for the new year.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I did kind of want to hit a mini topic here this week because what I've found myself doing starting Monday was taking this opportunity the last week of the year to get ready for the first of 2023. So this is normally a down week for a lot of people, you know, they're either on vacation or taking off work. You know, the gap between say like the Christmas holiday and the new year that week is usually pretty quiet on the business front, on the personal front. It's a lot of rest, recuperation. But some people, you know, obviously are working, working like normal. And this is a normal week for me. This is a full work week for me because I've been off essentially like the week and a half leading up to Monday, right? Like between vacation and podcast schedules and blog schedules, we took the lead up into the Christmas weekend as my downtime. So now I'm on starting Monday, right? So full schedule. So one of the things I started to do was to get ready for 2023. And from a stationary perspective, what all does that entail? So number one, I'm kind of looking around at what I am actively using. What, you know, fountain pens do I have inked up that need to be cleaned, right? What notebooks on my desk need to be stored and put away? What old planners from previous years need to be audited? What planners for the new year need to be set up? You know, things like that. So like the main things I got done just on Monday, and I've been doing a little bit every day this week. So on Monday, I have essentially two desks I work from in my house. Where I'm sitting at right now is my streaming and podcasting desk, right? So I have a lot of accessories, a lot of things right at hand, and a lot of electronical equipment on here. So this is one desk. And then I have kind of like a separate writing and work desk in my bedroom. That is near my photo setup for taking photos. And that desk tends to get a lot of storage because I'm usually in here on the stream desk, you know, podcasting desk. I will just work here a lot of the days because I'm already spending hours of here on most days anyway. So my other desk ends up being storage. So I started cleaning it up. I literally got everything off of that desk that has been building up over the past several months, right? And this is the week to do that, right? To give you that fresh start into 2023. Hey, get all the stuff off the desk that you don't need. So in relation to that, I cleaned a bunch of fountain pens last week in preparation for wanting to ink up a bunch of new pens to start the year. That's just kind of something I want to do. Just gives me this fountain pen refresh. There's a bunch of pens I haven't been using, a bunch of inks I haven't been using that I'm really desperate to use. It's like my fancy Namiki that I haven't been using for a while. That's going to be the first thing that you can get inked up. My Elbowood Pocket Master, my celebration pen from earlier this year. I got a nib grind on it in San Francisco and I haven't really used it that much, right? So because I've had so many other pens and inks and everything rolling through. So I'm thinking about what pens I'm going to ink for 2023. In order to do that, I need to clean up a bunch of ink pens. I have two pens inked up right now. So, or two pens that I'm actively using inked up. My 823 Fujiyama Blue, you know, the Bunga Box 823 and the Pen Addict Bennu anniversary pen. So those I kept inked up. Everything else got cleaned out because I'm about to ink up probably six pens like this weekend or next week sometime. Then I really wanted to get my planner set up for 2023. I think we'll dig into that a little bit further next week. So next week I want you and I to talk about like our 2023 plans, ideas, goals, planners, specifically stationary things we're using, things I'm anxious to like get underway for next year. So we'll talk about that. But I was setting that up for 2023. So it's really been a productive week on the organizing, cleaning, separating out, storing, deciding on plans for all of my stationary to, you know, you can do it for any day. But, you know, obviously the first of the year is a really good break, breaking point to just kind of start something new. And what I want to do is start with a clean desk and a clean pen case and a clean notebook. So I've been doing all of those things this week to give me kind of a head start next week. And this goes for like digital cleanup too, right? Like I organize my notes in Ulysses to better utilize, you know, the different topics I'm covering, the type of content I want to create. So I spent some time digitally cleaning too, Myke. So like that's important. And this is a good time of week to get all of that stuff organized and get ready for 2023. So I'll be doing more of that this week. You know, I'm, I have to clean up this desk that I'm sitting at right now. It's got too many notebooks and too many pens sitting here from things that I've used and things that I've shown on stream or on the podcast. And it just kind of builds up like all the cruft builds up and like I'm looking at two ink bottles and some, you know, some pens that need to be stored away and just stuff that doesn't normally live on this desk needs to go. And now's the time to do it. So I just wanted to bring that up. So hopefully everyone can get ready for a great 2023 in the stationary world, get, get writing, get planning, get motivated to use the things that you have. And yeah, I am getting myself ready and getting excited for the new year.

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| name = The Pen Addict
| number = 544
| title = Things Run Smoother On WNYC
| date = December 28th, 2022
| hosts = [[Brad Dowdy]]<br>
[[Myke Hurley]]
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| link = [https://www.relay.fm/penaddict/544 Episode 544]
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| length = 56
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