Each time I sit down to write an entry here, I spend a minute collecting all the things I will need for the post. I’ll pull up my spreadsheet, make sure all my photos are ready to go, and then I typically check my previous blog post. I knew that I was a post or two behind, but I felt confident that I had been keeping good photo records of the process even if I was a couple weeks late. Imagine my shock when I realized my last post was in September. September? SEPTEMBER. How could this be? It’s about to be December! All reasonable explanations of a busy work schedule, homeownership, and toddler wranglin’ are being rejected in favor of a much more comprehensible explanation: There is a tear in the fabric of space in North Jersey. I’m too dumb to prove it, but it’s the only way I can imagine blinking two months out of existence. Once I recovered from my Physics-induced nosebleed, I discovered that the only appoinment I didn’t take photos after was 130 (more on that later). In light of this catastrophic failure, I think it would be best for me to attempt to take this appoitment by appointment.

Session 129

This appointment was two hours of tebori on my right forearm. This was a very easy appointment for me.

Session 130

This is where we go a little “off book.” I typically never have my phone on me during appointments and if I do, I don’t take it out. Well during this appointment I just so happened to snap a quick picture during the appointment so we are in luck. This was taken about an hour and a half into our two hour tebori session. It gives a good enough idea of where we were at by the end of this appointment.

Session 131

This session reminded me why I likely forgot to take pictures after my 130th appointment. I usually wait as long as possible after an appointment so the tattoo has a little bit of time to heal before I take pictures. Well on the day before this appointment, I pulled a muscle in my neck so badly that I was basically bed-ridden for a day. The next morning, I wasn’t certain I would even be able to drive a car safely, so I went for a drive to a local store as a test. I felt that I was able to do everything I needed to, so I resolved to drive myself to my appontment that day (much to my wife’s chagrin). The distraction is certainly what caused me to forget to take update photos before this appointment. It’s worth noting that I just took these pictures in late November of this appointment from late October so the tattoo is pretty much totally healed. We cancelled an appointment mid-Novemeber because Horizakura was travelling.