Monthly Archives: February 2012

You’re Lookin’ At Country

Ponderings

Tonight I took the Husbear down to Fayetteville to see the 76 year old Loretta Lynn perform in concert.

It was… okay. Meaning, it wasn’t a horrible experience.

Loretta was apparently under the weather with some sort of illness but still chose to perform anyway. Lucky (for us?) one of her daughters was there to fill in the bits where she couldn’t sing. It was slightly distracting, but it worked. And the audience didn’t seem to care. Actually, everyone seemed… empathetic to her not feeling well.

But I know the Husbear enjoyed the concert. Which is what was important.

It’s hard to imagine that she’s been singing and performing for over 50 years. I guess I hope I’m still able to do what I love when I’ve been doing it for 50 years.

Until next time...
Erik

Missing (L)ink… New ink!

Ponderings,

I’m finally this much closer to finishing my right sleeve!

I got a chance to have about 4.5 hours of ink done today, by the tattoo artist who created my chest/back/deltoid piece about 8 years ago. (He had moved far away, then back somewhat closer, and now back fairly close!) A big thank you to Rob Austin of Rise or Die Tattoo down in Fayetteville, AR for the awesome ink today.

All the blue and green water work from around my elbow up to my armpit, as well as some line work for the next session was done today.

And I was trying to take pictures myself and with my iPhone, but that didn’t work out so well. Aside from this one picture that I give you… 😉

Until next time...
Erik

12 of 12, February 2012

Ponderings, ,

I’m doing my second “12 of 12”.

All pictures were taken with my iPhone. Click the images to enlarge, if you dare!

Created by Chad Darnell and picked up from a number of random bloggers who then link back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 links in December of 2011, so I linked to Blobby’s Blog as Blobby is the one who inspired me to do it.


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10:29 AM: Awake and out of bed. That’s a start, right? And I really need to trim my talons.


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10:45 AM: The Husbear’s backside. That’s what he gets for coming into the bathroom before I’m done.


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10:59 AM: I really need to start working on that stack of paperwork. I think we’ll go shopping instead.


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11:42 AM: The Husbear modeling some furniture at Pier 1.


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11:47 AM: I think this shark is high. Actually, I’m fairly certain of it.


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1:34 PM: Pondering a new remote system for the entertainment system. Because I don’t have a sonic screwdriver yet.


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2:39 PM: I want one. Not because I cook. But because it looks like a Dalek! SPICE-IN-NATE!!!


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3:26 PM: Camera sitting on a shelf at a flea market. I really like the look of it.


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4:28 PM: m wants some attention.


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10:18 PM: Incoming weather. And the Doctor. One usually precedes the other.


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11:13 PM: Do you ever feel like you’re being… watched?


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11:17 PM: Bedtime for the Husbear.

Until next time...
Erik

We’ll Make Great Pets!

Ponderings, , ,

I tend to wonder what has caused humanity to go COLLECTIVELY FUCKING STUPID these days. In the last few years, I’ve firmly come to believe the axiom: “The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.”

I choose not to expound on what made me write that previous paragraph. Just know that I did.

That said, I leave you with this lovely little ditty from 1993:


(YouTube link if you do not see the above embedded video.)

Children are innocent;
A teenager’s fucked up in the head;
Adults are even more fucked up;
And elderlies are like children.

Will there be another race to come along and take over for us?
Maybe martians could do better than we’ve done?

We’ll make great pets!

My friend says we’re like the dinosaurs.
Only we are doing ourselves in much faster than they ever did.

We’ll make great pets!

Until next time...
Erik