More Pepsi Center
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Da Center
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In less then 24 hours after this picture was taken the Broncos lost to the fucking Steelers... Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
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Mile High Stadium
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Alright.... the Vegas trip. I turned 30 on Dec 28th... Thom shortly after that... why not a Vegas trip. Cast included Justin, Terri, Thom, Kelly, Mom, Dad, Granny, Sparky, A preacher who looked like a pimp (above), Tara, Shauna, Costa, A dumb, dumb gate agent at Thrifty car rental, Chuck, Kyklos, Mickeys, Excalibur Hotel & Casino, Denver International Airport, McCarren International Airport, The Strip, Triangle Club, Palms, Wynn, Hart & Huntington, In-N-Out Burger,

Notable quotes:

1. "Do I need that?"
2. "......................................................................................................."

1. "I'd eat pussy for a cheeseburger"
2. "I have a cheeseburger"

"You can do it!!!!! Cut his fucking head off!!!!"

"I gotta tell ya..... I love the hat"

"Thom! Grab all the hooker cards... you can trade them with friends later"

"Fuck it's cold! You're so full of shit Mikie! Vegas is warm?!?!?!..... Bullshit"

There are a couple things I didn't get pictures of. One was me meeting Shauna over at the Triangle Club so I could see pictures of her month old Son... Levi. She looked great. Really falling into her mommy roll well. I'm designing a piece for her with the little boys name and astrological sign and flames. Should be cool. I still only have sketches.

I also finally hooked up with Tara. I hadn't seen her since I moved to Vail. She looked great. We talked a lot for a few months after the move... but just kind of fell out. I was busy trying to become a tattoo artist, and she was busy with a new boyfriend (who I didn't like and is now no more). She and I played pool over at Mickys Cues and Brews for hours. We caught up on everything from romance to new cars. It was awesome. I fell right back into the vampire lifestyle. When we left the sun was starting to come up.

I didn't call all my Vegas crew to tell them I was coming. I was already spreading myself with the Vail crew and my Family. I'm thinking of going back for a weekend in Febuary, and I'll try and make it up to them. I pissed off Manny(not really... but he found out I was in town and didn't call him) and I have to make some big amends for that one. Soon enough, Manny... I promise

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Where it all began.... dropping Thom's' Mini Cooper off at his works underground parking.... so no one would pick it up and put it in their back pack while he was gone........ Ok..... if you're scratching your head over that one.... Mini Coops are very, very small cars... I have three on my key chain right now and I think I might have one stuck in one of the treads of my new Sketchers.... I'm talking small

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Kelly thinking of a new career. It's always a good sign when the pole dancing starts before we even get to the airplane

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Tram ride to the concourse at DIA

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Kelly... expressing her feelings about not being able to watching the broncos on the in flight television. At least that's what I think she was expressing.... lord only knows with these crazy kids and their gang signs, and velcro shoes, and bell bottoms

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So what's the first thing you do when you get off an airplane and rent a car.... well.... if you're us, you make a B-line to the In-N-Out Burger..... or if you're creative with the stickers... In-N-Out Urge

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It's just so good when it hits you mouth
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Thom and Kelly after checking out the Luxor. What's weird is I remember taking a monorail over to the pyramid... and then I have flashes of walking around. Tara called me in route.... and well... I guess I can't walk and chew gum at the same time either

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Dad and Terri.... quite possibly playing the "hooker or not hooker" game

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Terri and Mom
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My folks took us to the "Tournament Of Kings". It's this dinner and a show thing that the Excalibur does. Basically you go in... eat dinner with your hands... and watch some mid-Evil production.... complete with jousting, pyrotechnics, and wenches.... hmmmm.... yeah I said that right. In the pic of me and my folks the tiger and squirrel were some little guys I won in one of the little carnival games that the hotel has set up in their arcade. I'm pretty proud that when the guy handed me my squirrel holding a rose, I told him not to touch his nuts..... god it hurts being this funny sometimes

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The crew heading in. My throat was actually soar afterwards. I suppose it could have been the many, many cigarettes I smoked. There's just something I dig about being able to smoke.... well.....anywhere.... that just makes me want to over indulge. That and we had to cheer for our country during the show....... That's right... Hungry.....Fucking Hungry Represent.... H town bitch... recognize

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Justin and Terri getting ready for the show
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Fun stuff. Guys with big swords and long hair.... but... wait.... I ate with my hands.... doesn't that restore my heterosexuality
hit points?
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Well.... he is just one big kid. I think all combined we have a mental maturity of a 15 year old
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Dad and Tommy Boy... chill'n at Excalibur
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It must be a pick pockets dream to be on Freemont Street during the show

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Terri and Justin... check'n out the Freemont Street Experience
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More to come...............
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Ok... if you don't know why this is funny... well... then you just don't hang out with Terri and me
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Finally caught up with my Granny. We grabbed some In-N-Out Burger... because... well... if I only ate it once while I was there.... I'd have let myself down
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Vegas............
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What it looks like on a windy day on top of the Stratosphere
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We went to the top of the Stratosphere, and rode the �Big Shot�. It's the worlds tallest ride. It shoots you straight up and then you do this bungie thing for a minute or two. It was my second time riding it... and it sure as hell won't be my last. To top things off we heard that another one of the rides that the Strat has on its roof malfunctioned earlier and stranded a bunch of Japanese tourist over the edge of the building for 3 hours. After hearing that.... I couldn't wait to get on the big shot. I think Kelly summed it up best...�If I die.. Fuck it.... At least I'll die in Vegas� I think I'm going to adopt that as a personal philosphy.


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BIG SHOT
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Lucky number 4???? Guess it could be worse... It could've been 13..... then I'd be dead now........ HA... bitter
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The crew did a little Benihana action for our last night in Vegas.
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Tommy Boy and Kelly... wondering why all beer doesn't come in 56 Oz bottles like Sapporo.... a Japanese beer

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That poor bastard never knew what hit him. I think he was protesting the Vietnam war or something. After that we hit up the Wynn and then back to the rooms. Justin, Terri and I watched "Waiting". Such a great movie. Then I went to my room and checked out "Saw 2"... which... correct me if I'm wrong... should be called "Seen"... Just a thought

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The following morning it was travel time. I returned my car and met the gang at the Galleria Mall for one last taste of Vegas.... a hero from Kyklos. Love those Greeks. Unfortunately Sophocles was off for the day, but I did say hey to Costa. After our bellies were stuffed, we headed to the airport

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Justin... doing what he does best... whatever that is
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One more road to cross.... the rental car... then the drive home in a snow storm
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Later Las Vegas
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One last stand on Nevada soil.... I gotta get back there
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Can't believe we were still able to smile after a day of traveling

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Tommy Boy... longing to sit in front of his computer and play some Worlds of Warcraft
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All and all... it was a great trip. Gotta love Elvis sunglasses. The rest of the night took a real... well... dark twist... but more on that Sunday. Stay tuned

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New pics coming later tonight
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This is the sign that's hanging on the door of our shop. Thank God for Vegas. We're taking off tomorrow afternoon and getting back on Tues night. I can't wait. I need to get the hell out of here for awhile. Pics will come sometime next week..... My brain is so fuck'n fried
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Do Not Panic.....Life is good
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Nothing like a little Shakespeare to help out a burning ring of fire............'Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;
I have not art to reckon my groans: but that
I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
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HAMLET
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd


MERCUTIO
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no
bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an
alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over
men's noses as they lie asleep; Her chariot is an
empty hazel-nut Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
And in this state she gallops night by night Through
lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; O'er
lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then
dreams he of cutting foreign throats, And being thus
frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, That
presses them and learns them first to bear, Making
them women of good carriage: This is she--This is
she!
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BENVOLIO
Art thou hurt?

MERCUTIO
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Ay, a scratch, a
scratch. HA HA HA.

ROMEO
Courage man, the hurt can not be much.

MERCUTIO
'Twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find
me a grave man. A plague o' both your houses. They
have made worms meat of me. A plague on both your
Houses! Why the devil did you come between us? I was
hurt under your arm.

ROMEO
I thought all for the best.

MERCUTIO
A Plague o' both your houses.

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Well....well.... kids. Let's see. Things just keep getting more and more puzzling up on this mountain. 13 and I had a little falling out..... at least I think that's what's happening. The last time I talked to her was three days ago.... I guess falling out is the only thing I can call it, but only for lack of a better term. We always had this kind of shaky, weird, stand off, thing going. She was never ready for a relationship.... and I guess I was... am. I guess I started getting to close, and I guess it's something she had no interest in. Fuck. This sucks. I tried my best to not apply pressure, but I know now I failed. Miserably. At least that's what it feeling like tonight. I fell in love with her...... and I have a big problem trying to keep that kind of thing... well... hidden. I never told her. Not because I didn't want to, but because I know she didn't want to hear it. People who have been hurt..... have a lot of fear and suspicion to deal with. I know of what I speak. Once again. This fucking sucks. I guess she needs time. I have no problem with that. But I can't keep setting myself up like this. It hurts too much. When you lose trust in someone.... it gets very, very difficult to get any kind of a relationship growing. I think we've both violated the shit out of each others trust. I've walked these paths before. It wasn't too cool back then, and it sure as hell is a bitch today.

You know what the worst part is. All this mental bullshit... it all goes away the second I hear her voice. (big sigh.... head slumped in my hands) Fuck. I'm sick. Run ladies. Stay away. Danger. This one is off the deep end. Emotional nightmare coming thru. I've had women flirt with me over the last couple days, and I just do the whole smile... laugh... make a joke thing, but in the back of my mind I just think... are you crazy? You have no idea how fucked this guy is. I had a pair ask me to come out and hit the bars with them on Saturday... another trio was eye fucking me , including the whole blowing kisses at me thing. And I wasn't even trying. I was upset. Lonely. Sad. And they loved it. I was an unapproachable dick... and they fucking ate it up like candy. I'll never figure this shit out. If I'm a dick, they love me. If I fall in love with them, they hate me. You know, I never give a shit about lines, so I don't care when I cross them... I just hate never knowing the name of the game.

Well... enough of this morose shit. I'm going to Vegas on Saturday for a four day trip. Me, Justin, Terri, Tommy boy, Kelly. My birthday was on the 28th of Dec, and Tommy boys was last Friday, so were going to celebrate turning 30. Ughhhggg. That still sticks in the back of my throat. But It's going to be fun. My folks are going to get a place on four corners, so we can all be in the same place. Lot less herding that way. I'm planning on hooking up with some friends I haven't seen in awhile. Amazing how things tend to come up... when you least expect them.

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Nothing like a neck tattoo at 2 in the morning
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My latest Hyatt gurl..... thanks 13
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Rasta girl.... Between her and her friends.... I haven't seen that much estrogen in the shop at one time.... in... well.... awhile
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So this was my New Years. My car conked out at eleven thirty, while I was driving over to Tommy Boys house. He hauled ass to come and pick me up and rushed back to his house.... and with good reason too. His girl would have killed him if he missed to stroke of midnight.... And then she would've come after me. Thank god we made it back to his place with eight min to spare. I called AAA and had my car towed back to my house. As I write this I'm waiting for another hour to call them again and have it towed to a mechanic up in Wildridge. I guess if you start out a year like this.... then there's no where to go but up.... right?
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