Howdy strangers, it's been a while! What's going on? A lot's been happening over on my end. I am fully entrenched into the iPhone and Twitter worlds of nerd-dom (things which were new to me in my last post). Eventually I'm sure I'll have some goofy thing on the site here where you can see my latest tweet, in case there's not enough useless stuff for you to look at on here.

You might have noticed a slight change in my header/navigation area—I decided it needed of slight touch of spiffing to make the nav a little clearer. Unfortunately though, I've been starting to get that 8-month-itch to redesign the whole damn site. I've been thinking of some ideas but if this site serves as any example, it will take years to pan out.

So you're probably wanting to hear the juicy goodness referenced in this post's title, so let's get down to it. I just recently turned the big 2-5 on August 16th and I've been wanting to get a tattoo for a while now so my lovely wife decided to make that her gift to me. The tattoo I decided to get is sort of a tribute to San Francisco and my love for the city. It's an awesome illustration done by my favorite San Francisco artist, Jeremy Fish.

Jeremy Fish's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" piece. Photo borrowed from Fecal Face and taken from his Once Upon A Time book

I did a lot of searching to find the perfect artist to take care of it for me and, after some looking, found George Campise who works out of 7th Son Tattoo, which happens to be located within a couple blocks of the Cuban Council office. I found his portfolio online somehow and was really impressed with his work—especially his awesome coloring—so I made an appointment and I dropped off my copy of Jeremy Fish's 'Once Upon a Time' book with the piece in it, he traced it and added some sweet waves and turned it into a half sleeve. George turned out to be a very nice and super talented guy and he finished the black outline last Wednesday, August 20th, and I'll be dropping back in to start on the color in mid-September. Here's a peek just after getting it finished up:

Taken by guess who...

I'm totally stoked about it and can't wait to get it finished up!

The wife and I just had our 1 year anniversary on Monday (woo! high five wife!) and to celebrate, we've planned a trip to Mexico for a week starting September 7th. It should be really nice and relaxing and we're both looking forward to it.

I've been learning and experimenting a lot more than usual lately so I should have some more nerd-o code blogs coming up soon. Until then, let me know what you think of my tat and let me know if you might be getting any ink done soon. Bye!