I shaved my head :-)

I have always had a desire to see myself with my head shaved. When I was 23 and went to army basic training I sort of saw it, but that was as a kid really and with no facial hair and not really what I meant. I had this idea that most women did not like bald heads, and that if I ever actually went through with it I would end up looking silly and all my friends would make fun of me. So about a week ago when I was joking about it with my girlfriend, I did not expect her to encourage me to actually do it. She mentioned it several times after, and I thought, "well, if she wants me to do it, why not give it a try? I don't really care what anybody else thinks about how I look other than her anyway." So I did it, and I am actually pretty happy with it. I think I may buy my own clippers and keep it this way a while :-)

Outlaws on my back

I grew up listening to Willie and Waylon and Johnny Cash in my dad's truck. I loved it when I was little, went through a teenage phase where I hated it because it was my dad's music, and then rediscovered it as my "roots" as an adult. So, I had this idea that I wanted the Highwaymen tattooed on my back.



Anyway, I was all ready to do it, but I thought, "Do I really want all four (don't forget Kris Kristofferson) of their faces on me? So I wound up getting a Johnny Cash silhouette on my lower back and decided to think about the rest.



I was really pleased with the result, but I immediately started wishing that I also had Willie somewhere. After all, he is my favorite. So I began looking through photographs and one in particular grabbed my eye. I knew I had to have it.



So, after a week to let the redness cool down, this is what it looks like on my right shoulder. I love it.



Happy for the moment and with two tats not even fully healed, I was laying on the couch with my head in my girlfriend's lap watching YouTube clips. She played a Waylon song and there it was, the big Waylon Eagle lit up behind him. I knew I had to have it to complete my set. Here it is on my left shoulder:



Now I have three of my favorite outlaws on my back, but still a lot of blank space. I wonder what will hit me next? :-)

New laptop

Aight, so I finally bought a new computer after months of only having the one issued for work (that is supposed to be only for work). I wanted a netbook, but I was afraid of regretting it at some point because they really are underpowered for most anything beyond web surfing (hence the name netbook). I started looking at the in-betweens; more powerful than netbooks but certainly not desktop replacements. I settled last night on the Toshiba Satellite T115, and so far I am happy with my decision, but we shall see:

Not a poem

OK, this is not a poem. I am contemplating writing more stuff here and maybe even renaming the blog to be more inclusive. Here is my conundrum: I NEED a creative outlet, for therapeutic if no other reasons. I feel like stuff is bottled up inside of me, but I am not focused on how to funnel it. So, maybe for now I will ramble. Anyway, I have that egocentric longing to be read, as if that would somehow make me matter more in the great scheme of things, but I am so undisciplined that if I did have consistent readers I would then be inconsistent and they would tire of it and leave me lol. Oh well, maybe I am not destined for recognition and instead this is all just for me, in which case maybe it will still be worthwhile :-)