Editing The Pen Addict 221/transcript (section)

== Pen Addict Podcast ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 221. My name is Myke Hurley. I'm joined by Brad Dowdy as always. This episode is brought to you by Harry's and Squarespace. Mr. Dowdy, how are you today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm good, sir. How are you? That was a very lively introduction by you. I mean, they're all pretty lively, but you're on it. I'm pumping up the jam. Yeah. Well, you have a big afternoon. I mean, this is the most important part of your day on Wednesday is The Pen Addict podcast, number one. The number two is the Apple event this afternoon, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's why I'm so excited right now. This is my peak of the day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. So we'll get you started off on the right foot. Although my show notes are filled with a little bit of angst.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Anger. Pure vitriol in our show notes today. Lots of curse words, which we cannot repeat, but I just want you to know there are F-bombs all over our show notes. So you have that to look forward to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. A certain person put me in a bad mood, which we'll talk about in a little bit. But the first thing I wanted to talk about, though, is your moving conundrum from last week. And it didn't get me motivated to get my house in order, if you will, because it's something I've been meaning to do for a long time. But I finally had the time and effort to be able to get in and try to organize some of my stationery, you know, like some of the stuff we talked about with you moving last week and getting new shelving and all that kind of stuff and how you should store things. And I still don't necessarily have great answers for you, but I tried to at least fix what I have because it was pretty much a mess. So you saw some of my pictures I posted on Instagram.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I was also watching your story, your Instagram story. Oh, yeah. Those are fun.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, yeah, those are fun. Then I forgot to end it. And then it vanishes after like 24 hours. Yeah, it does. So that's okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Femoral content, Brad. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I've got to say, like, looking at this, man, there's you've got a lot of stuff here. But in a way, like, it doesn't feel like as much as I would have expected at the same time. Like, you should have, and I expect you do have way more stuff than this. Yeah, I do. You've got a lot of ink there, man. Like, I think that's your key problem. I know that you're calling out notebooks as your issue. And you were really upset about notebooks. But looking at that, like, basically one and a half shells of ink, like, that stuff is just difficult to do anything with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it is. And, you know, not a lot of it, not all of it has boxes. So they're always hard to arrange properly. But, you know, I mean, I took some before and during and after pictures. And I didn't get to finish it all the way because I got sidetracked during the middle of the day. I was gone for a while. So my project got put on hold until I got back. So I didn't have as much time. But I spent a few hours working on it. And so I have, like, this six-shelf thing in a closet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the shelves don't have any, you know, stores with it. That looks like a pretty big closet. It is a big closet. It's got two sides. Like, the whole left side is full of more shelves. That's all, like, books and DVDs and then, like, pen boxes. So I did rearrange some of that. And I'm going to rearrange more of that for some of these notebooks. Because what I found out as I was doing this, like you said a minute ago, notebooks are the real problem here. Like, I'm fine with the pens. I'm fine with the inks. But the notebooks are everywhere. And I don't know what to do. Like, my first...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I see that. I guess, like, where I'm saying, like, ink is a problem because it's hard to do anything with. At least you can have, like, way more bottles of ink and it takes up less space.