I am a father for the second time as of tue. she is a lively healthy baby named Fern. everyone is getting along swimmingly
I am still trying to get resources together to open a new, smaller, tattoo studio and am going to avoid the nutty partners this time. I might try a more private studio model rather than a full on street shop. wish me luck

well the tattoo shop is no more. three business partners is never a good idea it turns out. i just picked bad, and upon reflection i don't know how i could have thought it could have turned out any other way. looking for a private studio situation in the mean time to generate some funds to open a street shop by myself at some point in the future. eeeesh

So I finally did it. I opened a tattoo shop. I never thought I would do it, and never really wanted to, but it was time to have more control over my destiny. The shop is Pincushion tattoo in Eureka CA. My two business partners and I have been putting a lot of work in the past couple of weeks, so we are looking forward to the pay off. wish us luck!