Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this video I chat about my recent You Tube "fast" (48 hours) and what I've been up to generally. This is basically an "open pen pal video/letter" for subscribers!
Topics include:
* Weekend You Tube fast (used Anne Lembke's Dopamine process: D = Data, O = Objective, P = Problems, A = Abstinence, M = Mindfulness, I = Insight, N = Next Steps, E = Experiment. Her book Dopamine Nation helped me so much in the past).
* Letter writing - how it's going in February
* Answering channel comments was something I did do during the fast
* Spring weather alternates with cold weather this month
* Cat Story - how Toby and Princess made the final leap to being full time indoors following a scary incident
* More thoughts about balancing getting information and staying informed with living life and not being too freaked out
My Favorite person to learn about history and politics from:
youtube.com/watch?v=gL_Trgicegs
I will be back in a few days with my Progress Report and I look forward to talking more about pens and inks and hobby things.
Thank you for watching!
For more behind the scenes pictures of the cats and Texas see my Instagram: instagram.com/snowball7470
My pen email: chris@inkswatch.com
In this video I chat about my recent You Tube "fast" (48 hours) and what I've been up to generally. This is basically an "open pen pal video/letter" for subscribers!
Topics include:
* Weekend You Tube fast (used Anne Lembke's Dopamine process: D = Data, O = Objective, P = Problems, A = Abstinence, M = Mindfulness, I = Insight, N = Next Steps, E = Experiment. Her book Dopamine Nation helped me so much in the past).
* Letter writing - how it's going in February
* Answering channel comments was something I did do during the fast
* Spring weather alternates with cold weather this month
* Cat Story - how Toby and Princess made the final leap to being full time indoors following a scary incident
* More thoughts about balancing getting information and staying informed with living life and not being too freaked out
My Favorite person to learn about history and politics from:
youtube.com/watch?v=gL_Trgicegs
I will be back in a few days with my Progress Report and I look forward to talking more about pens and inks and hobby things.
Thank you for watching!
For more behind the scenes pictures of the cats and Texas see my Instagram: instagram.com/snowball7470
My pen email: chris@inkswatch.com









![Channel Trailer - Season 6 - 2023
In this 3 minute video, I talk about plans for this year and what you can expect video wise from me! [Ha! this is a long overdue update to the channel trailer I last made 3 years ago and will give newcomers here a clear picture of what to expect content wise!] The major emphasis for the channel this year is school/student/child friendly fountain pen reports and explorations! I will also continue with my Chris Inked Pens monthly and the follow on Progress Report each month. In addition to that, I typically upload first impressions videos and/or reviews when I find something that I really think is just great within the hobby and want to share it with you!
Thank you to everyone who stops by here! I really appreciate all your support over the years! Its hard to believe this is our 6th season we celebrated the 5 year channel anniversary in September of 2022.
This channel is like a virtual pen club to me and I am so grateful to have people like you who like to stop in and talk about pens, inks, and all things related to the hobby + quite often cats + books as well!!!! I feel we are all very blessed to have this nice community of pen friends to share the best hobby ever with! Thank you for all youve contributed - comments, subscribing, emails, letters, pens, inks, samples, notebooks, cases, ... and many more things ... ! I keep it pretty simple - but hopefully still communicate helpful and/or fun things.
Check out the awesome ink comparison website (Ink Swatch) that Matt put together for everyone to enjoy and thank you to everyone who has contributed swatch tiles for this!!!!
https://inkswatch.com/
Here is a link to my Instagram where I tend to post a lot of cat pictures, South Texas, and also of course inky pictures:
https://www.instagram.com/snowball7470/
My pen email: chris@inkswatch.com Channel Trailer - Season 6 - 2023](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FUFIwVV-oqE/mqdefault.jpg)
