Tattoodles

It seems to be a running joke that no matter how long I have booked for a tattoo appointment, I don't seem to walk out with more than half an hour of work (although I do walk out with a few hours of chatting). Anyway, since I don't have many sits left before I get killed in South America, we're trying to blitz through it. The bottom half is now 90% done, and I'm really happy — it totally pulls everything together and makes it coherant… The top half is a yellow to magenta to dark blue sky fade with clouds, and then capped off at the shoulder with some psychedelic building. That'll be done at the end of June, and then I'll do a final touch up at the start of August…

Oh — probably on Sunday or Monday I'll be redoing Shane's web page so you can see lots more of his work.

AYB

…saw this as I was walking through an alley in the gay ghetto today:

I sleep poorly on weekdays

People who haven't spent much time at my house: Don't underestimate just how bad it can get here. When you work long hours, cleaning the floor often becomes your lowest priority.

It will NOT look like this on Friday morning, I promise! (And yes, I'm listening to Pansy Division in these photos)

Oh, and the petition plugin has been roughed out. I'll finish coding it probably on Thursday — if not, it'll be on Sunday I hope. Either way, it's on the way to completion. And if you didn't notice, there have been some very minor aesthetic fixes in the IM system.

BMEshop stuff.

First of all, the bags are there and in stock. We only have a few though, so if you're interested, you'd better click here right now.

As far as the shirts, the printer forgot to give us some of our order, so they'll be going into stock tomorrow morning. You should probably go to the T-Shirt page and put in a notification request though — we have lots of the Maori2 design, but the other ones are extremely limited. We're talking only a few in each size/color combo. The silver foil piercing ones are amazing… Actually, they're all great. Here is a teaser:

I'm uploading that monstrous update right now. So you'll have neato stuff to look at later today. Oh, and woo woo! I have company this weekend!

Three portraits

…illustrating how my painting has evolved over the years.
Left to right: 1997/8 (?), 2000, 2001.