[Greco]

From the Goulet Pens blog, and inspired by Medusa's new thread about fountain pens, paper...
it's all about expressing my thoughts, feelings, desires in writing...
my family loves receiving my letters and I love writing to each of them.

Greco

italics mine:

"The Goulet Pen

Simplicity- shutting off the computer and picking up a pen.
So I'm checking out Google Buzz trying to figure out how yet
another application is going to make my life easier. I have a
website, video blog, youtube channel, personal facebook, facebook
fanpage for my business, facebook page for my vlog, twitter
account, tweetdeck AND hootsuite (to manage my many update
channels), and multiple emails, which just increased when I
signed up for gmail to create my Google buzz account.

I'm just thinking how ridiculous it all is that I now am trying
to learn ANOTHER social media program to manage the multiple
programs that I use to manage my multiple social media outlets!!
And people wonder why I like writing with pens!!! They're just so
damn simple, unlike life online. On top of all that, I'm trying to now
figure out the best way to backup my personal and vlog video
footage...looking at a multi-drive RAID NAS, which apparently
DOESN'T work with Time Machine....and my Macbook doesn't
have eSata or Firewire so I need gigabit ethernet, which will
require a switch so I can share both computers since I still have
a PC desktop that I have to use but only for my printer which I
just refilled the black ink cartridge AGAIN, but it's not recognizing
it because Lexmark is the devil and programs their cartridges to
fail unless you pay for them with your firstborn child, and since I
just switched Quickbooks to my Mac and I'm no longer using my
desktop for anything but printing....and even though I'll have to
drop $400, I can't use the NAS for intermittent updates unless
I figure out some other program that will do it besides Time Machine
which will cost more money if it even works, and if I transfer large
amounts of data like video then I'll have to plug in directly to the NAS
to get a faster transfer speed..........
:headsmack: :unsure: :gaah: :hmm1: :bonk: :bawl: :huh: :wacko:

And people wonder why I think pens, paper, and ink are so simple?

Bottom line here people is that there comes a point when you can
overcomplicate simplicity. People ask me all the time how I'm able to
run an entire business selling nothing but pens, ink, and paper, which
is so passe to most people. But in an age where you have devices
like the iPhone with tens of thousands of applications that are all
designed to make life simpler or more convenient, we become
overwhelmed by all of the 'simplicity' being programmed for our
ever increasing number of electronic devices.

But writing is constant. Since cavepeople wrote in the sand with
sticks, the fundamentals of the art of writing has never changed.
You are still holding something in your hand and making squiggly
lines to get a feeling or idea across from yourself to another person.
When I write a letter to someone, I care about who they are, what
their name is, and what their world is all about. In the online world
there's just something lost in the translation that no number of
emoticons can fill. As we become more integrated online and more
detached from the physical world, the art of manuscript and
the physical correspondence of letters will become ever
more meaningful."