June 28 2008 - Kyde's dad worked on my tooth issue today. I have a tooth that has some decay issue above the gumline, apparently caused my trauma or something, who knows. Doc had to basically push my gums up to get under them to inspect what needed to be done to fix the tooth. After using a scalpel to push my gums up he drilled into the side of the tooth to inspect what was going on. That part really wasn't all that bad, but even with all the anesthesia I could still feel it a little bit, which indicated I'd be in need of a root canal we will have to do in a few weeks. He then drilled into the top of my tooth down to the root so he could put a little cotton ball on it that had a medication that would basically kill it, so when the root canal is done I won't have as much pain to go through. That part was really horrid. Kyde held my hand and I sweated out about a gallon. It totally sucked. Here is a few pictures of what went down. The first one is just getting the shot, the second one is a pic of my gums flipped up...Kyde said you could see my jaw bone. The thrid and fourth are pictures of the stitches and there is a quick video of him stitching my mouth back together. Good times!
June 16 2008 -
June 13 2008 - We went to the zoo! Nubbins!
May 21 2008 - I'm fast.
May 20 2008 - On Saturday Kyde graduated! I'm super proud of her. It was also a really fun day in general.
May 13 2008 - This is from 2005. The kid playing pocket pool is hilarious. Also after we played our set Jesse and I were over on the merry-go-round (the show was at a park) and some kids were talking about the bands that played. One kid mentioned how ArA sucked and another was like "no, they were good" and they went back and forth about it totally oblivious to the fact that a member of the band they were discussing was there on the merry-go-round with them. While this was going on a much younger kid came up to me and with an absolute look of terror in his eyes he whispers "They don't know who you are!". It was pretty much the funniest thing I have ever seen.
May 04 2008 - Jesse, Biff, Kyde and I went for biplane rides today. Kyde had the balls to make a bitchin' video of her ride!
May 6 2008 - This was really neat.
May 5 2008 - I fixed the pix page!
February 4 2008 - Jesse and I smashed a shed.
October 19 2007 - Two weeks ago I got the Mercury capsule finished up. There sure is a ton of blue ink in my arm now.
September 10 2007 - I'm internet-friends with a brother and sister band from CA. They played in Richmond. It was awesome.
August 26 2007 - Went to see Jimmy @ Salvation yesterday. Jesse was bored enough to go with, it was a magical good time. I got some more color added on the Apollo CSM/LM section, finishing up that section.
And here is what we got done on the Mercury capsule, just a lot of black shading. My next trip down should get this part finished up.
And lastly, here's a cruddy phone-video Jesse made of Jimmy working on me.
July 29 2007 - Yesterday I went to Salvation and got some more work done. Got some color put on the Gemini capsule and the Lunar Module. Was in for about three hours. Here's some pics we took this morning, the actual colors are still a little distorted from the redness/swelling/blood. The yellow areound the Gemini capsule should be a bit brighter and have a gradient glow around it when it heals.
Here is a couple of "full arm shots" of the outside that work was done on yesterday:
And here are some closer shots of the actual Gemini capsule that is basically done at this point.
July 15 2007 - Yesterday I started a new tattoo of three early-era NASA manned spacecraft. On the inside of my arm is a Mercury capsule, then a Gemini capsule on the bottom outside followed by an Apollo CSM and LM in formation during Trans-lunar coast. Here is a video of what I got done yesterday. None of the color is done yet and some stars that will be in it are missing. This is about 3 and a half hours of work:
Here are pictures of the actual spacecraft:
Mercury:
Gemini:
Apollo (there are no real photos of this formation in existance, excuse the crude photoshop):
All the work is being done by the amazing Jimmy at Salvation Tattoo in Richmond, Va