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right, so wordpress ate the 2nd half of that last post, and i’ll be damned if i can remember what i was trying to say. i’m sure is was profound though.

so it’s saturday of the week off i took, and well it was a mixture of relaxing and frustrating. it was relaxing in that i had no set agenda (except to vacuum and see the tattoo guy) and frustrating in that i vacuumed only half the house and well i saw the guy and i’m about half way done there. i’ve been rocking the mr. mom angle all week, and truth be told, it’s been great. the capt is changing before m’eyes and it’s a crazy. he’s not putting together sentences, in all 3 tenses (i’m sure there are more tenses than i’m aware of–is the infinitive a tense or a conjugation? oh man, too complicated for a guy that hates capital letters. it’s just funny to have him say things like “this hot dog is TASTY!!” and shit like that. the grow so fast.

so i’m sure you’re all uppity up’d about the tattoo. i don’t tread into these waters lightly, going from a 1 tattoo done when one’s 19 to, two–the 2nd done when one is thirty-um ahem, something, is either a cry for help, or pathetic, or ballsy or something. but hear me out–i’m finally embracing my inner hipster. no i’m kidding. well half kidding. on a more cheesy note. that whole road to a better jefke bullshit (it’s not bullshit, actually) has been changing the way i think, the way i perceive shit, and really the way i’m interacting with the world. as bad as it is for the blog/bidness, i’m actually becoming emotionally invested in my life, and not in a bitter way. i know i know you hard core readers will scream i’ve sold out, and perhaps so, but man, you can only ride the bitter train so long before you either have to off yourself, or really really really get in to the booze i’m a loner gig. it seems unconsciously i structured my life so the latter is not very realistic (damn kids!) (though i’m working the booze thing, damn wives!). and well neither is the former (damn kids–damn wives) so i might as well as make the best of it. and i’m doing that, and i’m not gonna feel guilty about not being pissy and making you all laugh. <sniff> assholes. think about me once and a while.

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anyway. i’m not saying i’ve had an it’s a wonderful life moment or anything “meeery fucking xmas savings and loan!!” but shit is moving in a good direction and i’m trying not to undermine it with typical “oh man, it’s just a matter of time until i say something stupid in front of the COO and loose our contract” or “sure the capt’s smart, smart like a meth dealer”. where am i going with this?

so in a combination move worthy of blanka in street fighter 2, i have simultaneously gotten out of my “man i’m old and getting older and that young man i was, the one that people liked was an asshole and a deviant” mold AND actually come around a corner and decided that I might not actually hate my life. how’d i do that. i got a big ass tattoo which, symbolically captures this time in my life. so of course, it has don’s name in the center, i martini glass full of cat piss, and a rendering of the girls gone wild guy, with the caption “i was just trying to educate and entertain” under his portrait. jesus, i’m boring myself with this shit. ok to get this over with, i have commissioned and received a piece done in celtic style ( yes, i’ve got some mc/scottish blood in me, on me mum’s side) which captures my life right now, 3 cats, 1 dog and one cherubic err, cherub. for your tat’s snobs out there, it’s a quarter sleeve with out a band, meaning that it does not reach over to my tender sharkbelly skinned inner bicep…yet my first session was yesterday and the outline and about 1/3rd of the fill is done. it took about 2.5 hours of actually ink time. it hurt. it wasn’t awful, but it hurt. it hurts today too. i suspect it will hurt tomorrow as well.

i have about 2 hrs left on this piece. then i think i will do the inner arm part some time in the fall, perhaps winter. at that point i expect natty to say something about how much this is all costing. but, for now she’s just psyched that i’m saying things like “things are pretty good. i’d like to remember that”

so the real question is: what’s the new tag line for the site?