Busy Busy

It's been a busy month:

Two weekends ago, we took a weekend trip down to B'ton to visit friends Steve and Lisa, up from Chile (which would have made it Chile sin Lisa), and friend Heidi. Heidi is much better at taking pictures than we are. Check it out.

Two Fridays ago, we left for our biennial Spring Break (w00t!) road trip to NY. A l'il ol' snow storm came up from Tennessee and kept us company between Cleveland and Rochester. We stopped for the night in Batavia and had an awesome dinner at this place called Alex's. Just a few blocks from the NY Thruway exit. I had a great chicken & ribs BBQ. Lily got to spend the weekend with her upstate cousins. On the way downstate, we stopped in New Paltz to have lunch with my kid sister and check out her current art show. Once in O'town, we relaxed for the rest of the week, caught up with lots of my local HS friends, met baby Kyle, met an unnamed monkey-in-utero, swung by the wine shop to catch up with Drew, spent a day in the City (babysitting courtesy of Nana), got more work done on my back (which I realized I've been working on for damn near ten years now), among other things. Aside from the fact that I took in more Fox News in one week than I have in the past several years, I actually had a relaxing trip.

I've been working on my damned back for close to ten years now. After this week, I'm pretty sure I only need one more session with JK5, currently working at Saved Tattoo. Yeah, I know, traveling between NW IN and Williamsburg, Brooklyn probably isn't the most expedient way of getting a tattoo finished, but I had wanted Joey to do it, so...

During the 2&1/2-hour session, Joey filled in the purple Saturn feather. All that's left now is the last row of wing feathers, seen in the top image. Hopefully 2008 will see the end of this tattoo. Then I can start thinking on the next one(s). The original design actually had cherry tree branches coming up over my shoulders and onto my arms. Who knows...

Lots more went on this past week, obviously. Maybe I'll even write about it as it occurs to me.

Posted at 04:08 PM