Some of my favourite tattoos

I love tattoo art. There’s nothing better than great ink adorning a body and showing one’s personality in ink. Whether it’s memorialising a loved one or your kids. Ink that bears meaning about life experiances or interests that you feel strongly about.

My own tattoos reflect a few things. I have a St. Andrew’s flag on my right forearm to reflect my Scottish heritage. That is the begining of my sleeve of Scottish artwork. On my left forearm I have a Norwegian flag in the shape of Norway to reflect my Nordic heritage that will be a sleeve of Nordic art work.

On my left calf I have a tattoo that I designed to reflect a small group of friends that I’m involved with locally. I actually hand drew that one and inked it myself. I have inked a varied version of the same base design on two other friends.

On my right wrist I have a small scorpion to reflect my astrological sign. I’m very much a Scorpio in nature. It keeps me in check sometimes and always reminds me of who I am and also the hazzards of being me. On my left wrist I have a symbol for “burning pain” as a reminder of things that have affected my past and to keep me on track for the future.

On my knuckles I have lettering across all my fingers to spell out SCOTLAND. I’m also planning on getting “PROMISE” tattooed on one of my pinky fingers and “SWEAR” on the other. I am also working on a back piece that has very special meaning to me. No details at this time, but one person reading this knows.

Script work is my favourite kind of ink work. People have all some interesting and deep scripting put on them. I like to ask people the meaning behind their lettering when I see them. It’s great to hear the stories that people have for why they have a specific word or phrase.

I wanted to post some photos of some script work that I find very cool because they express relationships. Those are some of the best stories. How a couple met. What’s behind their specific tattoos. To see their commitment.

 

This is my favourite. I love the idea that two people can just know and trust each other on this level. Those two words say it all.

 

I like this one. To the point.

 

You just know when you can. It’s a gut feeling and you don’t have to question it ever.

 

Again with the pinky ink. This one is great with the two hands together like that.

I like this for the Celtic knot work, although I’m not certain that this would be for me.

More Celtic ink. “Soul Mate”.

 

Next look will be at ink scripting that has phrases for life meanings.

Enjoy!

42 Years in Review

Today is my 42nd birthday.

So here I am writing and watching some Soprano’s. I’ve had a good day so far.

This has been a pretty significant year for me. Some major life changes have been made. For those that don’t know, I’m in the process of a divorce. That’s all I will say on that for now except that I have learned who my real friends are in the process.

In the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to reconnect with friends that  I have not seen in years that really were key in my life growing up that were every bit as close as family. How is it that when we have friends like that and we lose touch that we can find each other again? I’ll probably never figure that one out, but I’m glad we all found each other again.

I’ve met new friends that have become like family. One in particular has really had some good advice for me and I value the bond we’ve formed and I’m  glad to consider this one family.

I’ve made better friendships with people at work that I’ve seen and spoken to for years. I’ve got some cool, twisted coworkers.

I’ve become involved with a woman that I met 26 years ago that captured my eye and my heart. She is an amazing lady and more beautiful now than ever and in more that just the physical sense. She has a great commitment to family and doesn’t take any shit from anyone. Some values that I have lost sight of over the years and don’t mind being reminded of. Especially by her.

Speaking of family, I’ve had a reforging of my relationship with my kids this year. I will say that a big part of my decision to end my marriage was that the future former Mrs. was controlling and alienating of my kids. When it comes down to it, she may have been my wife, but my kids are my kids and no one gets in the way of that. Things had finally come to a head last year that made me realize just how dysfunctional things had become. Things have really turned around with us. I actually have a better relationship with them now than I ever have. The three of us have become healthier people because of my decision to make this change.

A couple things that I have looming on the horizon is career and school.

I have been with the same company for 10 years now. I like what I do, but it’s become stale. In an abbreviated nutshell I am part of a team that handles ADA (American Disability Act) accessibility for a cruise line. I guess that I have always been kind of a caregiver in that sense. As a night manager for a local grocier I assisted residents of a local group home for the disabled do their weekly shopping. At the dealerships I’ve worked in, I assisted with getting new/used vans that disabled customers purchased to a local company that outfits them with lifts and hand controls.

I know that school for me needs to be something that continues in that direction. There are social services, health care services, community services to name a few. Medical seems to be the direction that my life may be headed though. At one point I did hold a state massage license. One direction from there could be PT services. I think it would be very cool to work with persons that have a disability and actually be able to make a difference in someones life. I recently thought about something else as well: EMT/EMS. Those folks make a real difference as well.

Of course I will be continuing to move forward with tattooing. I have recently gotten back to working on my art again and will be ordering more supplies to move ahead and get back to slinging ink on more regular basis.

So many things to consider and act on in the next year before 43 rolls around.

I look forward to the what the next year brings and conquering it.

Where I’ve been

I haven’t exactly been doing my duty lately in keeping up with my page. All I will say for now is that I have had a life change and those of you that know and have asked me about it, I thank you for asking and listening objectively. The rest that know and have not asked me, but speculated and talked behind my back, y’all can get a spoon and eat my ass.

Back from dramatics, I’ve been spending sometime enjoying Washington’s beaches this past month. I also took an afternoon at the Pike Place Market and Seattle waterfront. I’ve taken a ferry ride across the sound to Bremerton and spent an afternoon in Snohomish having lunch and drooling on Harley’s.

Here a few of my choice pics.

Well as you can see, I’ve been staying occupied in the great outdoors instead of pounding the keyboard………or in the case of this post, gently tapping iPhone’s touch screen on the WordPress mobile app.

More to come in the future. Next week be on the watch for hot rods, Bavarian themed towns and Roger Water’s The Wall.

Foto Friday

Since today was actually a good day with almost 60 degree weather and sun I thought today should have photos of some of my favourite cars from last years Kirkland Concourse d’Elegance.

Porsche 550 Spyder

968 Cabriolet

BMW 327/28 Cabriolet

356 C

911

Any of these would certainly be a candidate for a top down or sun roof open day. As always when I’m out in mine or the FIL”s the roof is off as long as it’s not raining regardless of the temperature. It just seems wrong to not have the top down as a long as there is nothing falling from the sky.

Kilted Ink Works Boxster S

Have a great weekend and stay topless!

Word Wednesday

Here it  is. Use it and enjoy it.

PORTER

noun

1.

a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.

2.

a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc.

3.

an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car.

4.

a person who has charge of a door or gate; doorkeeper.

 

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English, variant of portour  < Middle French porteour  < Late Latin portātōr-  (stem of portātor ).

 

noun

a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.

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Origin:
1720–30; short for porter’s ale,  apparently orig. brewed for porters

 

 

 

Foto Friday: The birthday edition

Happy Birthday Nick Mason!!!

 

Pink Floyd drummer, authour and classic sports car enthusiast.

 

Then..........

 

and now

 

Nick with his favourite car in his collection, the Ferrari 250 GTO. He has raced this at the 24 Hours of LeMans.

 

 

Happy birthday Nick. Keep drumming, keep writing and keep racing.

Word Wednesday: The really late edition

So I meant to get this posted up earlier today, but the real job and an unintended 4 hour nap after kind of took over my time.

So after looking at length to find something unusual to share with everyone, I bring you the word of the day:

Satiate:

[v. sey-shee-eyt; adj. sey-shee-it, -eyt] Show IPA verb, -at·ed, -at·ing, adjective

verb (used with object)

1.

to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust orweary; surfeit.

2.

to satisfy to the full; sate.

adjective

3.

satiated.

From L. satiatus, pp. ofsatiare ”fill full, satisfy,” from satis ”enough,” from PIE base*sa- ”to satisfy” (cf. Goth. saþs ”satiated,” O.E. sæd ”satisfied;”see sad). Related: Satiation.

So there you have it. Satiate. Go out and use it in everyday conversation or make it part of a daily activity.