This is what you've been waiting for.  Pictures of my newest tattoo.  It looks amazing, I assure you.  I will show it to you at several different stages...

First day...

After a few days of healing (when the redness was gone, but my skin was still real leathery)...

And this is after it finished healing...

That's my grandfather in World War II.  He was a gunner in the Naval Air Force.  Sorry about the lighting situation in the third photo.  My flash doesn't always work on my camera.  But you can tell that the redness is gone, my skin is smooth again, and this tattoo looks absolutely amazing.  Thanks to Deuce from Fine Line Tattoos in Dallas Texas.

Tell me what you think guys.

tim

It's on my left calf by the way.  And it took three and a half hours.

Got a new tat yesterday.  It looks unbelievably amazing.  Pics are coming soon.

Merry Christmas all!!!

tim

I know I haven't posted in a long time.  But this happened tonight, and I thought it was hilarious. Phil, I think you especially will get a kick out of this.

So I had a rather interesting and hilarious happening at work tonight.  It had been a long day after 5 and a half hours or screaming kids.  I decided to stay after and have some fun playing video games.  (I work at an arcade for any that don't know.)  Capcom vs. SNK, one of my all time favorite games just got brought back into the arcade and I was dying to play it.  While playing, I was being observed by a young man and his sister.  No big deal, or so I thought.  I beat the game twice and decided it was time for some DDR.  After DDR I go to collect my stuff from behind the counter, and the young man approaches me and asks me if I would talk to his sister for a minute outside before I left.  I thought, "oh great, some little 15 year old girl has a crush on me."  And I was right.  Sometimes, you don't want to be right.  I go outside and she's standing right outside the door.  She's looking nervous and has her hands on her mouth. She finally gets the courage to tell me she "really likes me" which I had a hard time believing since she didn't even know my name.  Anyway, I informed her that I'm engaged, a senior in college, and 22 years old.  I don't know how old she was, but could not have been older than 15.  She didn't know what to say after I told her that.  I just told her not to worry about it, and have a good night.  I got a good laugh later.  It was pretty funny.  I thought it was funny anyway.

THREE YEARS TODAY!!!!!!!!

It's true.  Amanda, my beatiful fiancee and I celebrated 3 years of a wonderful relationship together this evening.  Yes, we've been dating for 3 years!  I can hardly belive that much time has passed.  It's been a good three years.

Tonight, I bought her flowers.  Then I took her all over Winona Lake to different spots that had meant something special to us, and reminded her of those moments.  We then went to Bennigan's for dinner, which is where we had our first date originally.  Finally, I took her to the DQ on 15, where she and I and another friend had hung out even before Amanda and I started dating.  So it was a great night. 

Now you know.  Love is amazing.  If you find it hold on to it.  Trust me, it's worth every minute, both good and bad.