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Don't feel too secure, DBD. I witnessed four good blue collars laid off this week because of how an upper manager screwed up our business. 30 years and a pension may be guaranteed still in some countries, but not in the USA! Thru the ether from my LP2

Welcome. Spend some time, get to know folks and different tastes. Stay away from Pinterest!

Every person that we meet, communicate with, etc. becomes part of us whether intentional or not. Those that we spend time with and care for become large parts, and loosing them is a big personal loss. It is easier to say goodbye to a Christian, because I know that to them, their belief is that they are gaining and it is only painful to them to miss us for a time. I am sure that others have similar ways to cope with death. I have seen those that do not have such firmly held beliefs also. I feel so sorry for them as it is very terrifying and final to them. Mark, I do hope that you and your aunt have such beliefs that give comfort. Friends and those on the forum can help a little with words.

Stood by while a dear friend breathed her last today. Surrounded by family and friends, gone to be with her husband. Still not a fun time. I'll be a pall bearer and have had to reschedule my appointment from Saturday to next Friday. Anything for her. She was very dear to me and a reason that I kept going to that church was to be able to take her when she felt like it. Set her husband Preston (in the dictionary under "commitment" it says - see Preston Hampton) on me the first Sunday I went there, fresh out of the Navy. I sat with them until the pew would no longer hold our combined family. Our youngest daughter sat with her most nights for the last month or two. Also, four fine folks were "downsized" here today, plus one kind of forced-retirement.

Or, you could go the Disney route and not have any nipples at all on them. Thru the ether from my LP2

There are always new roads, and new air to move through. You can't ride too much.

Really sorry about that, Mark Bee. My daughter has been job hunting for a year now. Many are hiring for 90 days only so they don't have to pay benefits. Keep at it and treat the search like a job is what I've always heard. There is word that there will be some major not-good changes where I work over the next few years. Our group has been told we are safe, but still...

Yours is bound to be smoother than mine with all of my blown-up veins and scars. I guess it depends on the individual's shin and the portrait subject (a joker or devil might go real well on an angular shinbone). Get the artist to check it out!

61+ here for the first. Second booked in a couple weeks. No regrets. There WILL be flaws (it's ART, reflecting LIFE), but a lot fewer than the guy that it is on!

I've thought that if I ever get a back piece or anything not at least mirror viewable, I'd get a good web cam and admire it. I even prefer photos of my small breast piece to looking in the mirror, to avoid the reverse prospective. I'm sure with yours so easily seen for you that it is proving to be a distraction for you.

Very nice! Is the blush on her cheek your skin tone or his work? It adds another dimension for me.

Don't worry, the ones that don't think you friendly/approachable are the ones you probably don't want to be friends with/approached by, anyway.

Just keep her off of Pinterest!

Check my intro. It includes my first (only, for a few more weeks!) tattoo photos and critiques of it both + and -. I welcome and understand this. I still love the tattoo, and in fact have an appointment with the same artist for another. Yes, I see the flaws, and it faded too rapidly which was corrected. Maybe at my age, I'm a bit more pragmatic about it all. Expect not just art, but life to have flaws - and learn to enjoy the difference that reality brings!

If you tolerate it well, Benadryl (diphenhydramine) does knock down the histimes, which drive the itch. Beware that it knocks some folks out, though (active ingredient in Sominex). Don't take it with alcohol! Me, it doesn't even make drowsy. Dries up the nose, though.

Oh, how I really, really wish I could show them. Don't know how they would take it and don't care. Dad died in '78, mom in '93. I actually think they would approve, and perhaps be proud as it represents my Naval submarine service in the 70's.

Nice to hear something good said about America. It is a big country and many don't see how diverse we really are. Thanks! As far as areas you can't see - you could have a great photographer do a nice portfolio (probably free if you let them use it) and admire the work or buy a web cam and set it up to view yourself (you don't HAVE to put it on the web, you know). Actually, Germany is one of the places that I have enjoyed the most, what little I have had time to see (Erlangen and Kiel). I have found a general good will toward Americans there and in Italy that I did not see in Scotland, England, or France.

Hogg, that is just too, too... I don't know what to say. Breathtaking at the least.

So, Marko - are you apprentice training in a good shop? Seems needle use would be covered there. As well as not killing the people you practice on.

Pleasing.

You are! And, so am I, it appears.

I thought SUP was done in calm water? I couldn't balance one on dry land!

Of course, the GL1800 is a lot heavier (~1100 lbs with me aboard). But, these are stock numbers for an '04 - my Black Pearl is an '06.

....Along with having tattoos, I have long, thick, curly red hair .... Thanks for the fantasy.

The big bike is a GoldWing - hardly a chick magnet. And, I bought it when I was 56, married for 25 years. I appreciate the young lovely's, but have no reason to chase them. I already have my hottie (she does like to ride the 'wing with me). I was a geek in HS - physics and math major in college but dropped out and did 8 years in the Navy. Learned that the hot chicks just don't get invited out as much as you think, and if you behave as a gentleman you can scare yourself with their willingness to go out. My friend had a whole book of date ideas. I tried one - a dollar each in a dime store to buy what will occupy you that night, then go back to house or apartment, bake brownies or such and enjoy the fun. You learn if she can think and if she expects you to blow $$$$ on her each date. It ended VERY interesting!