I sometimes feel like vegas is just a big glittery blob that just keeps growing. It seems like it could just pop at any time.

My home computer went to shit last night. Damn it damn it damn it. If theres no fix for it.... It'll mean I lost the web site pages.. About 25 tattoos that I didn't get posted.... And i'm sure a bunch of shit that I won't miss til I need it. I can almost hear justin yelling at me saying I should make picasa albums. Damn it. I'm doing mobile posting now... Not sure how long til we get a new one for the house... With any luck.... More sooner then later.

Rita, the property manager, stopped by the shop un announced today. I'm waiting for some tenant finish money coming and she came to see if my claims matched up with the work. Fuck'n bullshit. I was working on a client so my brain wasn't really thinking that I was going to have to answer questions from a cranky, junkie looking, eyebrow raising, personality black hole. I'm just sicking dad on her now. There's a little surprise that we have up our sleeve. Can't wait to hear what happens with that. I'd write more but according to my lease i 'm not allowed to reveal the details. Guess I understand that.

I have today off. 1st time all month. Clair isn't letting me come in at all. I'm supposed to lay by the pool and work on my vampire tan. Think i'll call mom and justin.

I'd love to do more blogging. I really would. I'm on my 24th day of work. It's awesome but exhaustive. I'm back to being multiple projects behind and having between 2 to 5 tattoos to do a day.

In other news. Mom and granny came in for the weekend. It was cool having em around. We tought we we going to stay with us, but they ended up staying at one of dads companies houses

Shit! Shit! Shit! My phone is about dead.... I guess i'll try to write more later

 

Holy shit. Life is pretty awesome. Now. It was a pain in the ass sometimes... Fun other times.... And now is pretty cool and almost done....

K... Let me back track. The first thing was the pain in ass property management lady. I thought she was alright at first... Then it just turned into one damn pain after another. We had everyone take a look at the lease. My parents, grandparents, clair folks, her cousin the lawyer, our broker. It turned into a cluster fuckage of hurry up and wait. First it was the the lease.... And the multiple copies that I had to sign. Some of the emails didn't have all the pages and adendiums we missing. When everything got turned in the board of directors took forever to get a signature. All I wanted was a key so we could start the construction we needed to do. The whole thing was so fucking frustrating. I was getting 10 to 20 calls and texts a day. 'When are you opening'.... 'can I get an appointment'.. It got to the point where I didn't even respond. I'd do one or two responses and then i'd get so pissed I just couldn't think about it anymore. It sucked... Well.... Sucked is kind of light.....is fucking sucked big hair balls to light?
I finally got a key.... Two weeks after my origional desired date. We painter... We cleaned... We built walls. Randy, chris, lisa, issac, clair, me, terrance, barry, jerimiah. We all got dirty... It was so great. The shop looks awesome thanks to them.
I'll finish this up in the next day or so..... I'm watching some supernatural

Just another day in pair of dice

The new 22 foot graphitti entrance piece. Notice the signatur cloud with all the people that have made the new Evilution possiable. Also I'm rep'n the 702 (Vegas) and the 970 (Vail Valley)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The shop... coming to life

 

 

 

 

Holy shit. Friday the 13th is turning out to be pretty good day. We got keys to the new shop! Woo-hoo! Pics and other stuff to follow. I'm going to home depot to get painting supplies. Now the fun starts

Wow.... What a fucking roller coaster. I should have keys to the new shop.... Almost a week ago. But oh hell no. Every god damn time I think I got one fire put out it flares up again. I got insurance.. Yippy... Then the paper work didn't have the landlords name on it. I had email conversations... I got charged $50 for a retype... Then I find out I gotta pay the rest of the premium by the 23rd. And ya know... I haven't had the ability to make dollar one.

One the plus side.... Evilution tattoos is now Incorporated. How wild. Really didn't know that was going to be on the menu.

The bitch of the bunch is I'm so frustrated that I can't talk to people anymore. I'm sick of having to tell people that I'm still waiting. The more I hear myself say it out loud the more pissed I get. I wish that shit went as smooth as I hoped it would. But shit fucking happens. This is why there aren't tattoo shops on every corner in Vegas. You really got to want to do this.

I feel like still such an asshole for not keeping up with my friends.... I just wanna talk to them when I have some good news. Hope they forgive me.

Clair is sleeping on my lap... The cat is sleeping on her.... Piggy is curled into a lil ball... Think it's making me sleepy...hope tomorrow is key day.

Gott love a dog....

It's been another crazy month. Usually I check the previous posts to where I left off.... But tonight i'm skipping it. I'm sitting n my couch under clairs sleeping legs... Watching some family guy. Here's the low down on life. Evilution has closed at the verona salon. The new shop is really close to becoming a reality. I've gotten thru most of the hoops. The first step of the health board is done. I had to take the plans in and have a meeting where I showdd how the shop will be set up. It went great... The best thing I did was print out pics of the pre-existing stations. Pretty smooth sailing like that.

The lease has been signed.... Soon to be twice. Aparently the first copy didn't have a one of the signature sheets. Now we have to go back over the entire thing to make sure i'm signing the same lease I originally sign. That is pretty much how this process has been going... From the start really. I got insurance yesterday... Thank you loyds of london. I have to incorprate the business tomorrow ...plus a couple more things just to get the keys. I'm losing business every day that I can't get up and going... I'm getting between 5 and 10 calls a day from people wanting ink and wanting to help to get the shop ready. Kinda cool having those kinda people behind me.

Clair put in her two weeks notice from home depot. Honestly it was a long time coming. One of the smartest women i've ever met doesn't need to get yelled at for improper watering. Bunch of horse shit. I think it was good for what it was... But i'm going to be happier having her run the tattoo shop.

My house is currently a disaster area. One of my neighbrs had to leave town in a hurry... Lost his job... No place to stay.... Only friend was in kansas. He didn't have a moving van so basicaly all he could take was the stuff that fit in a 4 door sedan. After I helped him load what he could fit he handed my his keys and said to turn them into the office when I took what I wanted. I ended up with computer desks, a tv, clocks, chairs, tv cables, ipod, tables, trash cans, glasses, dinnerware, entertainment center... So much electronic it's crazy. I basically got enough to furnish the shop. I've been havesome fun with stencils and spray paint ver the last couple days. I'll have to post some pics when everythings done.

So this was a little crazy. My grandfather has really been helping me on the whole project. It's been awesome. So anyways... I went down to palm springs last weekend. Papa said he wanted to let me borrow his mercedes. I thought it would be great to have 4 wheels again. That and I love the car. It always reminded me of my grandparents... Especially my grandmother Gyda. I was shocked when papa handed me the title and took me to get it washed... While of course showing me evrything there is to know about it. It's so fucking cool. It's a 1983 mercedes benz. Grandma green.. Tan interior... Turbo desil. It's amazing. I'm going to limo tint the windows and put some evilution stickers.... Can't wait. Pics coming soon. Been raining all day... But soon.

I'm gonna hit the sack... I think.... Or maybe update some other web stuff.
I've been holding off on blogging because everytime I think I knw what's going on in life it changes in the blink of an eye. Can't wait to get things done so we can get a regular schedual.

working

 

 

 

 

Have'n some fun with photoshop

 

 

 

 

Greetings world. Here's some vegas snow.

I'm coming to you from cail tonight. I came down for a couple days to see the family since christmas was spent with clairs mom, her boy friend scott, and her dad. Christmas was good. Nothing really to report. We hung out at the house... Opened presents.. Ate way to much food. We all went to the titanic exhibit at luxor after. That was cool. Really neat to see some of the stuff up close and personal.

I write this now in another state of confusion. My first spot i was looking at for the new shop went south. Landlord wanted to see $45000 in my account before he would agree to my request. And what happens. I get that info at 10am... Justin sent me a text offering me an opportunity to go in as a partner in his new shop back in colorado... Edwards to be spacific... At noon. Then I get a message from the vegas broker telling me there's another space open that is one block further down the road that used to be a tattoo shop. I had the proposal sent to that landlord just to see what I could do with it. Now things are crazy. I've literally gone thru every way of thinking almost every 24 hours. And it hasn't seemed to stop. What I want keeps going frm one thing to another in a swirl... I have pros and cons for both choices. Clair would be happier back in the vail valley. That's a hell of a thing since she hasn't seemed happy since we moved. I'm still feeling the sting whenever I think of the wrk that i've done to get evilution up and running. Then just to walk away.... It hurts. I miss justin thom craig kaufman and all the vail friends. The time I was working with justin was the best time i've ever had and I know it would be great to get back to that. The vegas shop has tons of potential... At least that's what I think. And I believe I can make it successful. But ... Vail... Friends... Justin.... Damnit. This is the way my head has been going for the last two weeks. I'm still trying to find a way to have my cake and eat it too. Stupid I know just don't want to feel like a failure. And I especially don't want to hurt my friend randy. This is so damn confusing. Everyone deserves t have an answer.... I just need a little time

Oh yeah.... I turned 33 two hours ago. Happy birthday to me