Monthly Archives: January 2017

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8:53 pm

Thank you to my bestest buddy for “Sexy Rexy”! I am probably going to have way too much fun with this…

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Thank you to my bestest buddy for "Sexy Rexy"! I am probably going to have way too much fun with this…
Thank you to my bestest buddy for “Sexy Rexy”! I am probably going to have way too much fun with this…

Hi-Fi Friday: January 13, 2017

Audiophallic,

I picked the theme for this month: 80’s songs that make you cringe. And Blobby‘s correct: I did select the theme and emailed it to him while inebriated gambrinous on the streets of New Orleans. It’s what popped into my head first, so I ran with it. Unlike other things I’d like to have been popping in my head while in NOLA.

I was just going to list this person’s discography, but I guess I just need to post one song. Her voice = nails on a chalkboard. Actually, I’d rather listen to Yoko Ono on a drunk bender attempting to cover Beatles songs than listen to Kate Bush sing anything. And then this one song, which SiriusXM’s 1st Wave likes to play just makes me cringe. Her voice, and those horns.

I give you Kate Bush’s 1985 “Running Up That Hill”. *shudder*

Until next time...
Erik

Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:33 pm

Mystery bruise making an appearance. What did I run into?

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Mystery bruise making an appearance. What did I run into?
Mystery bruise making an appearance. What did I run into?

12 of 12: January 2017 edition

Meme, ,
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.

This is my 61st “12 of 12.”

This 12 was on a Thursday. Normally, I’d be tattooing. But I took off this entire week to work on a remodel that needed to be done at the studio and the salon. So today’s pictures might be a little more boring than normal.

8:17 AM: The stairs. So small. So designed for people with size 5 feet. I’m surprised I haven’t broken my neck on them yet. Plus, no handrails!
10:12 AM: Freshly showered. Again. And heading off to start day 6 of the remodel at the salon and studio.
10:21 AM: Probably a sign. Dropped my box of nails under the truck. Luckily, they’re joined for use in the nail gun. But still…
12:13 PM: Looking inside the newly removed doorway into what will be a new tattoo room, as well as a sterilization room, and the backside of a janitor closet. This room used to be the shared break room.
12:25 PM: The Husbear caught sneaking some of my eggplant parm. In the new break room. It’s smaller than before, but I’m okay with that. It keeps the salon staff from congregating in there when they should be up front waiting for and with their clients. That just annoyed the piss out of me.
12:59 PM: My first trip to Lowe’s for the day. I’d normally attempt to get all this delivered in one shot, but since both businesses are open while I’m doing this, I have to work in small chunks, and there’s no place to store all the stuffs I need.
2:12 PM: Janitor closet door installed in rough opening, and drywall mud curing covering old pass-through opening into old breakroom.
4:30 PM: Second trip to Lowe’s. Another door, and door things, as well as a few other supplies.
5:21 PM: Like putty in my hands. Come on, you know it’s funny.
6:08 PM: For the first time in the 11 years the studio has been open, we had to call 911 because a client when non-responsive. He was acting someone odd when he came in, and it just spiraled downward from there. He refused to be taken by ambulance, and there’s nothing we could do. Hopefully he didn’t end up hitting a tree or someone. Still not sure what he did or took, but this is why you don’t take substances and come get a tattoo, people!
6:34 PM: Our apprentice getting ready to do his first tattoo on someone not related to the studio.
8:57 PM: My own kill room. I wish. Just taping it off so I can spray the texture on the new walls tonight.
BONUS: 10:43 PM: Watching the texture dry. Or the worst bukkake miss ever.

Until next time...
Erik