Well, as promised, I’ve got a picture up of my tattoo. I know I said “pictures” but I decided to only get one because A) I don’t see the point in taking multiple pictures of the same thing and B) this isn’t MySpace and one picture of a random body part is enough for anyone thank you kindly.

At any rate, here’s the picture. It’s based off a painting of the USS Constitution. I’ll post the side-by-side so you guys can have a comparison.

All in all I don’t think it was bad work for just over an hour in the chair. This was the first tattoo shop I’d ever been into that had TVs set up in the workspaces so you could watch a movie while the artist worked, very weird.

I like it, and I’ve already found out that if I flex my bicep it looks like the ship is running with full sails, so that’s always fun to show people. I’ve never had a tattoo that did tricks before. I’ve already had it compared to Little Pete’s tattoo of “Petunia” on ‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete‘.

Okay, so it was more like 24 hours without power, but you get the idea. We were completely without power all of yesterday because of a HUGE storm that hit us. Debris is still in most of the roads and we just got power back about an hour ago, crazy stuff. Most of the surrounding areas were out of power too, except for one of our friends houses who had power because they’re on the same power supply as the gas station and commissary on base housing. It was good times had by all, thank goodness we can open the fridge again or shower with the lights on without worrying about running out of hot water.

I’m finally getting around to getting my first tattoo in over two years. I stopped by the tattoo shop today, dropped off my artwork, and I’m slated to get the new ink done on Saturday. I’m pretty excited, quite a few people have ships but not everyone has the USS Constitution on their arm. Turned out to be much cheaper than I had expected too, which is always a pleasant surprise. Pictures will follow after I get it done.

Also heading out to see the new Aliens vs. Predator on Saturday, so that should be a hoot. I’m not expecting a grand cinematic masterpiece here, but it would be nice if it were better than the first one. A lot of folks I know had waited for a long time to see an AVP flick get made, and most of them were pretty disappointed when they saw what it had become.

Anyway, pictures and my impression of the movie will be along shortly, probably Sunday. Until then, I guess you’ll have to use this post to keep you warm. No worries, it shouldn’t be too long.