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== Hobonichi Cousin ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. And I definitely thought about it for next year and trying to use the Hobonichi Cousin, which is a big notebook, trying to get the hardest thing about journaling or task list or to-do list is showing up every day. It's not what goes in it. It's the actual commitment to show up every day and put something down. So this was a good experiment to see how that goes. And it was okay if I didn't get it all done on the same day that the event took place. You know, if I could do it the next day, that was fine. Once you start to get into like two or three days, then you start to get into a really bad habit of playing catch up. You know, I don't, I wouldn't recommend that. But like next day was totally fine. That worked out well. So I, yes, it was definitely, I had ulterior motives. It was definitely something to think about while I was doing it. So we had another thing at that show, Myke. Mm-hmm. Did you, I'm making a new Panatic Retro 51.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I have to say, it's not what you would expect. No, do you think that's a fair description? Yeah, it's not orange. It is not orange. It has no orange on it. But Michael Jacobs, who you met at the show and who has an STPA coming up later, did a design.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He called it the isometric bomb pop. And I love the design. I said, I think this will make a perfect Retro 51. Let's collaborate and do a Panatic. Do one, you know, like I did for the Panatic last year. So we had the sample in time to bring it to the Field Notes event. And I think it went over very well. What do you think about the pen? Not that you're going to tell me it's terrible, but what are your thoughts?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love it. I think it's beautiful. I'm going to put a link in the show notes to the t-shirt design, which is where I'm expecting you saw this from. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. So you can kind of get an idea for what the graphic's going to look like. But I think it's fantastic. Like, I can't wait to get myself one of these. Like, it's really, really cool looking. You've chosen a good option, right? Because it's like, this is just a cool design that you like, as opposed to, this is a pen pen addict thing, right? Because there's only so many ways you can go with that, right? Like, where do you end up going with it, right? Like, there isn't that far. You can't go that far, right? Like, you just keep doing different pen addict related things. It makes more fun for you to just find things that you like and use those as jumping off points to create a cool design.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, like we learned at the field notes event, they focus, they look at each edition and say, is this field notesy enough? And I look at the retro 51 pens and think the same thing. Like, this is a perfect retro 51 style to where if I keep doing something like strictly pen addict related, I kind of get off track there. Like, I wanted the feel of this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And you limit yourself as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I wanted to do this. We'll see how it goes. And I'm really excited about it. So, I'll have more news on that next month. I think it's about four weeks away from launching. So, we'll see. We'll see. Another thing that launched on the blog this week, I got up the first article from Maibun. Yeah. The Japanese stationery web magazine. And this is, I asked for this review first because I was fascinated when I read it from their site originally. And I know I shared it. It was months and months ago when it first came up. But I said, this is the one I want to go with first because I think it's interesting. And it's called the Tagged Memo Pad. And it's, what caught my eye was the shape and design of it. And then I read about it. And I was like, okay, maybe this is not like the perfect notebook for me. But it's interesting enough, it falls in that Field Notes Expedition right in the rain category to where it's the waterproof paper. But this one is different in that it's actually washer proof. As in, they took the paper that the dry cleaners make their tags out of when you drop off your clothes at the cleaners, right? And then those tags are attached to your clothes. They go through whatever washing process that they go through and finishing process and then come out on the other end. And so this is like, it's not the plastic paper, like the Yupo paper that's in Expedition. But it does have those same features to where if you use a water-based ink, you're going to have a bad time. It's just going to smear and smudge and come off of there. So you're going to use pencils and ballpoints. But I like the style. I like the format, the curved edges so you can hold it. You know, this is meant to be used, you know, outdoors in the field. This is not a desk pad, right? This is a portable pad. And, you know, the paper's perforated. It looks interesting. I want to get my hands on some of these because they make some, when I've looked through their product pages, they make some larger ones with grommet holes through them, which I think is a really neat style. Like, it's totally not functional. Like, I would never use it other than I think it looks cool. So they even have it on, branded on the front covers. It says, from cleaning tags. This is a really interesting type of notebook that hopefully one of these days I can get my hands on. And now that I know people that can get these, maybe I can come up with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I thought this was such a good start for this content partnership because this is weird and wonderful Japanese stationery, right? Like, it is just... I've never seen anything like this before. And it just made it so perfect. And I love the way that the story started, right? Like, it was this cute little intro. The pictures are great. Like, this is exactly the type of stuff that I personally want to see from this partnership. Because it's... Exactly. ...stuff that we just wouldn't get access to otherwise. Like, that just wouldn't come by because we're not in Japan, you know? So, yeah. I think this is awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, this is very cool. Like you said, I'm really happy with this partnership. And I hope, you know, it continues on. I mean, no reason why it wouldn't. But it's just a little added bit of coolness that I want to see on the blog. Because, I mean, this is the stuff I want to read about and stuff I want to use. And stuff I want to learn about. So, you know, I'm glad this is underway. So, it's been a while in the works. And the feedback has been really great. So, keep it coming. And let us know if there's anything else you want to see in particular. I've already got, like, three other articles to choose from. I'm going to start sorting them out. And we'll do, like, one a month or so. I think it's kind of going to be the pace. It's not going to be, you know, every week or anything like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I imagine it's a relatively large production. We're getting the translation done right. Stuff like that. Yep. Just take some time. Just take some time. For sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So.

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