Scarred For Life

About a month ago Vince asked me, since I would be in Fort Collins, if I wanted to go to Boulder with him to get his annual birthday tattoo. I said sure. Then he asked me if I wanted to get one as well. I said sure. Since then I have been thinking, drawing, looking, and trying to decide what would I get as my first tattoo. Being a Creative my first tattoo had to be couched in some criteria or I would come back with a Taz Manian Devil or the Metallica logo.

My criteria was:
A. It had to have personal meaning.
B. It has to be timeless. It had to be something that I would still want to look at in 80 plus years. (Yeah, I plan on living to be about 120)
C. That I had to either design it or be involved in the process.
D. That it had to be in a place that if I needed to I could cover it up.
E. And that it wouldnt go on a part of me that will get fat.

Well, I only broke one of those criteria. I came up with the concept but I had major help designing it. I never knew that getting a tattoo could be so much fun. It didnt hurt at all. The artist, Billy The Kid at Scarred For Life, was a great artist and good guy to get to know. I would go back for more tattoos from him. Here is a pict of him working on my first tattoo.