Hi, name is Sean and I'm from Holyoke, MA. 30 yrs old, truck driver. Love cigars, belgian beer and single-malts. Have a strange affinity for pocket watches. Love my Boston sports teams, Sox, Pats, Celts and Bruins.... and I am a relatively new wetshaver, which is another great hobby. Love to read and write. That's it for now I think...

I just got a Waterman Phileas for christmas, which brought me here after trying some searches and threads on unrelated forums.

This is a pretty new realm for me so you may see some dumb questions coming up...

I'll get to my searches now to try to find what I seek but I;m gonna leave you with my first dumb question:

What the heck is "posting" a pen?

Welcome to FPN!! Lots of knowledgeable folks here on the forum so ask away on your questions! I can answer the first one. Posting a pen is the practice of taking the cap and pushing it on the back end of the pen. Some folks do it to keep up with the cap, some because they like the balance of the pen better posted and some do so because the pen is just to short to write with with out the additional length of the cap on the back. There are pros and cons to posting, each person ends up deciding for them selves if they will post or not. Again welcome and hope you enjoy the forum.

Hi Sean! Welcome to FPN! There is no such thing as a dumb question!

Only dumb answers!

Welcome to the FPN Sean!

Cheers
Mark

Welcome to FPN, Sean.

The Phileas is a good pen and you came to the right place. And believe me, there really is no such thing as a dumb question on this forum.

Have fun!

Phil

Welcome to FPN.

Welcome to FPN! Always great to see another Massachusetts person around here.

Greetings from the Pacific NW!!

Jim

From one forum newbie to another, greetings. Years ago, I was a paramedic in Holyoke. I can only imagine all the changes there since I left in '78. You'd be one of them, LOL.

hey Sean!!! Welcome to FPN!!!!:)

Hello Sean and welcome aboard the FPN, from the "Water-Winter Wonderland State" of Michigan. My cousins love Augustin, Dubbel, Enkel, and Stella Artois beers from Belgium. They swear that they are far better than any beer currently made in America.

Happy New Year!!