Editing The Pen Addict 212/transcript (section)

== Sailor Four Seasons ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's part of the Four Seasons collection. And it's Haruzora, H-A-R-U-Z-O-R-A, Spring Sky. Wow. So I think probably we could shorten that to Spring Sky and be good. Yeah, I think that would be fun. It kind of looks like a Tiffany pen, you know, like Tiffany, the brand Tiffany. It's not quite as deep of a blue. It's a much lighter blue, but it looks like something that would be sold in, like, the Tiffany jewelry store or something like that. It's a really neat kind of color that they did for this. And there's four total colors in this. I forget which other one. This is the one I'm working on to review. They have, I don't know, I could have picked a different one, but I wanted to pick one that I wouldn't normally pick. So this was actually the one to see about the color. This probably would be my third choice of the four. But I wanted to see something different. But why I found this whole thing interesting is because what I've really been literally carrying every day is a Fodderstack XL, which is the NotCo memo book holder. It's the real skinny one. It has one pen pocket in the front. And I have a Fisher Space Pen in there, a brass one, just the traditional shape, brass bullet Fisher Space Pen in one of the Pen Addict notebooks. And what I found myself recently, and this is going on a couple of months, that when I'm going to knock three days a week, I end up not bringing any fountain pens with me because they're not great around the shop. I don't want to clip them to my shirt, you know, have them fall out, have them drop, you know, if I'm writing on the copy paper that we use in the printer that we're printing orders on, you know, I want to use something that's not a fountain pen because that's not the best for the situation. And I think that's what I found is like I found a kit that's better for the situation I'm in. And that's what I talk about all the time, using the right pens and paper in the right situations. It doesn't matter what's the best pen or what's your favorite pen. What's the best for the situation that you're in? And I found this little kit with the notebook, the notebook cover and the pen to be like a really, really good setup for me because I can just throw it in my pocket. It fits easily in my back pocket. It fits on a side pocket if I'm wearing a short with like a cargo pocket or something like that. It doesn't get in the way. It's light. I can use this pen on anything and anywhere in the shop with the Fisher Space Pen refill. I always switch out those refills, by the way, from the 1.0 millimeter black to the 0.7 millimeter blue. I don't like the black Fisher Space Pen refill in the 1.0 millimeter size. It's not my favorite at all. So that's kind of been like my carry. Like I'll leave the house. I just grab the fodder stack and everything's there and I throw it in my pocket. It doesn't get in the way. I don't know. That's kind of been my thing recently. And it's sticky. It's been sticking with me. I haven't been using my fountain pens near as much. Which I wrote recently. I was talking about this because Myke Dudek wrote a post about how he hadn't been using his fountain pens as much. And I got to think about it. I was like, you know, I'm kind of in the exact same boat where my fountain pen usage was like 75% of my pen usage. It's dropped down to probably under 50% of the time. I'm just using more different pens nowadays than I am using fountain pens. I definitely rotate through my fountain pens a lot less than I used to just because I'm using them less. Not using the ink as much. So not as much need to change through them. So it's an interesting transition I'm having right now. And it's just environmental. It's just like what's being called for for the job that I'm doing right now. So, yeah. So I totally hate fountain pens again, Myke. You can quote me on that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, you're back around.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You've come all the way around again. Yeah. Tony.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Tony wanted to remind me of that. I want to make a clarification on your sailor that you mentioned. Sure. Is it sky blue or spring blue? Spring blue. Okay. Because I'm finding Haruzura sky blue everywhere. Really? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Including on Nibs.com and on Pen Chalet. Okay. I was looking on gold spot and they have it as spring blue. So, yeah. Wow. So maybe we should go to the sailor site to get the official name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I went to Nibs.com and they have it as sky blue. It's all very confusing, everyone. These are the real kind of challenges that we have here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. And, you know, I'm definitely prone to screwing that up. Yeah. Gold spot says spring.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, who knows whether it's spring or sky, but I'm going to put a link to the sky blue in the chat room because it looks similar, at least.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I'm going to go with spring blue because the series is called Four Seasons. So there's spring, summer, autumn, and winter. So...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, then it doesn't make any sense, does it, really? Nope. So as Kathy would say, suck it. Well, it's not my fault, is it, really? I mean, I feel like you've unfairly asked me to do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You asked me. You asked me the color. No, I feel like...

'''Myke Hurley:''' I had the color right the first time. Look, I'm just saying, all right? All I'm doing is looking these things up because you're going to provide me with the links and I want to give the links to our listeners. Fair enough. Fair enough. What do you want me to do? I love the patina in the photo of your Fisher Space Pen because it just looks green now. It looks like you just bought a green one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I keep photographing it because it's kind of blowing my mind. So it came out, obviously, when you get it, it's just the brightest, clearest, most perfect brass. That patina took all of about two days of me carrying it in my pocket. It was like zero to a hundred in two days. It's just like crazy, crazy patina. So now you have it at me, me making those noises that you don't like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's interesting, right? The patina thing because you buy a pen for a specific look and then within days, it doesn't look like that anymore. Yeah. You know? It's weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have a few... Like, I still have my pen type B that I carry and it patinaed like gradually and it's nowhere near as dark as this is. And it's a huge hunk of brass. This is... I think people were actually saying because this one is so thin, it causes that to be a quicker transition, I guess. And the pen type B, you know, just has a more stable, you know, looking effect on it than this one does. This one is really kind of crazy, especially with the time they took.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting. Interesting. So you mentioned your buddy to me again today. Yeah. That was in the pregame. Yeah. So you were brought up by Kevin Rose on the Tim Ferriss podcast, which is very popular.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have nothing to say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I didn't really have anything to say either. I just... You just want to rub it in my face.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I just want to rub it in. I know what you're doing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Actually, I didn't know about it. Like I was sitting around... It was either Sunday or Monday. It was on a super quiet day. And I started getting a few tweets saying, hey, you got to mention in the Tim Ferriss podcast, Kevin Rose was talking about... They were talking about what's a purchase under $100 that, you know, has kind of changed how you do things. And Kevin mentioned the podcast.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And just how you changed his life, basically.