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== Horror Stories Intro ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Spooky July! Oh man, that would be perfect. We have to get on that. And if you're not familiar with Horror Stories, we'll link to previous episodes where we've talked about the Horror Stories. And we've started a Horror Stories Hall of Fame, which we have two entrants so far, Emil and David. And I have to apologise to them, they haven't gotten their t-shirts yet. I'd send t-shirts to everyone, Emil, you need to send me your address. And David, guess what, Myke? He sent me his address, but it got caught in my Horror Stories filter, because he was already a Horror Story. So I didn't look at it till yesterday, when I was going through the existing Horror Stories, that we still needed to discuss, and found his address. And it got looped in there. So my apologies. So we will get those out to everyone sooner rather than later. And we'll see if we induct any new entrants into the Horror Story Hall of Fame.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And yeah, we actually, there is a Hall of Fame entry on the stationery.wiki, which is put together by Alexander, which details actually all of the, like a brief description of all of the Horror Story entrants on episode 329, 336, which has spent a great effort. Including the honorary people, but we also, like, sorry, who was honoured, like who won, so that's all in there. And so if you remember, David, David spilled the ink onto his mother's carpet and stained his foot blue, which was fantastic. And Emil was the person who injected themselves in their palm by accident with a platinum, thinking they were going to inject themselves with a platinum violet ink, but just narrowly missed. But still injected themselves, which is just fantastic and terrible and super dangerous. So therefore, an entrant into the Hall of Fame. So we're going to, this is the level we're working at, right? Also, David's, David's, I have not done justice to David's story. It is incredible and full of twists and turns, which was why we ended up awarding David with the first ever Horror Story, because it just gets worse and worse and worse. So that is what I'm looking at.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, and some of these are old entries that I've been sent, like some of these dates on these emails were like 2018. So this is only something we pick up every, you know, couple times a year. We'll read off some Horror Stories. So if you ever have any, send them my way, hello at penaddict.com. Put Horror Stories in the title. I do, like I said, I do filter those off so I make sure they get saved in the right place so we can read them on the show later. But before we get there, Myke, I did want to hit a topic I've been struggling with recently, if that's okay with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's your own personal horror story.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is my own personal horror story, but not really. This is not a bad, bad story. But we talk about agendas and planners and all of those things a lot on this show and how I generally don't do well with them. And I found one that really works for me. I've never made it through this far of a year in a planner before until this one. It's the Sumkin A5 agenda that I talk about all the time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the reason why it works for me is because of the weekly layout. You know, the seven days on the left side of the page and the right page empty for notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's very beautiful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and it's, you know, it's soft covered. It comes in two, six months sections.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I'm having a problem, though. And I've always had this problem, and I've never chosen to solve it. You know, I've kind of ignored it and just kind of floundered. And, like, I can't afford to really flounder my time anymore. And the problem I have is I need a monthly view. And no matter what I find to use digitally for calendars, that does not work for me at all.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, what is the monthly view? Like, what are you looking to see on a monthly view?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I need to schedule things out further, like production schedules and...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So you want a big calendar, basically.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Right. But I have to keep my weeks layout. And then I want, at a minimum, like a two-page per month layout.