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Number five
It's been quite a while and this past Thursday was my latest appointment. It's tough to plan the sessions out when I have to fly down to San Jose to see my tattoo artist, who is routinely booked 6 months in advance. I really like the results though so I'll keep it up for what should be 2 more sessions ( Read more... ) -
Session Four
I managed to save up enough vacation time to take a whopping 4 days off so that I could fly back to the SF Bay Area to see friends / their new babies and experience a few hours of pain with my tattoo artist Ron. The black line work and shading was all done so it was time to decide what color(s) to start with. Several times I'd thought to just leave ( Read more... ) -
Lutefisk
Last year when I was in Washington visiting my wife's family I saw signs near my in-laws' house advertising the annual Lutefisk dinner. I wanted to see what it was about as I couldn't believe that there existed an event where fish preserved with Lye was the focus. I brought it up with my wife and she said that the event was sold out! Now that I'm ( Read more... ) -
Pain the third
So it's been a little over 5 months since my last tattoo session and time for some more pain. I had an appt in May, a few days after I was scheduled to move out of CA that I had to cancel and this past Sunday was my next scheduled appt. I flew down to San Jose for the weekend to see some friends and relatives, watch my old hockey team get crushed, ( Read more... ) -
latest update
It's been a while since the last time I had anything non-tattoo related to say so here goes ( Read more... ) -
Pain - part two
Today was my second trip to see the tattoo artist. Today I had the left side of my leg outlined. Again Ron drew the design on my leg by hand with two ball-point pens and then set to work tracing it with the tattoo machine. Again it hurt quite a bit as expected especially over my ankle bone and behind my knee. Now the outline is done and the shading ( Read more... ) -
New Ink
I've been looking at a specific style of tattoos for the last 10 years or so and have been amazed by some of the designs that people have put to skin. When I find a good tattoo online or in a magazine that I like I'll show my wife and tell her what I like about it. I guess that after hearing about tattoos for a few years she got fed up with it. She ( Read more... ) -
great news
After keeping the news relatively quiet for the last 16 weeks and a day, I'm talking...
I went to Kaiser today with my wife and we've learned that the baby we're expecting will be a girl. Our baby is due in the middle of Feb of next year ( Read more... ) -
Dreamy ride
So I did it. After lusting after one for probably a year now I ordered a new bike. I ordered a Calfee Dragonfly model. When I hear/read about custom carbon fiber bikes the name Calfee always comes up. I have yet to read/hear anything derogatory about their bikes in magazines, online forums, from owners or even people that work in bike shops whether ( Read more... ) -
just checking in...
Second half of the year... what's been going on?
Went to Guatemala for a week and a half for part 2 of my honeymoon. Had a great time. Toured the country by car, saw the big sites, remembered quite a bit of spanish from high school. Climbed the pyramids at Tikal, went mountain biking in the countryside, toured an organic macadamia nut farm, ate ( Read more... )