Even with bad traffic on 90, its hard to be in a bad mood on such a beautiful day.

A late night text message from Crista and I soon find myself up the road at Idols getting drunk with Crista, Josh, and Mike and blaine keeps feeding us drinks.

5 days into the healing process and the bruising is starting to fade into that gross yellow color. So far everything is healing well, although the skin is really dried out. Only some minor redness around the exit points, and no signs of rejection!

When I went to grab some lunch it was gorgeous outside. Now that it's getting close to time to go home the ominous clouds have rolled in.

Hell City closed down and we decided since we were still in town we'd do some piercing. Carly got a unnamed ear piercing and Tony did a surface piercing on my forearm. Probably the most complex body mod since my dermal punches. It involved first shaving my arm, and then jumping two veins in my arm with the needle and then threading the tygon across my arm, but not before taking the bar and lifting up the skin a bit, and then finally screwing on the ball. The pain wasn't all that much, but the combination of that and only 3 hours of sleep and about 40 hours of working Hell City got me a little light headed. Luckily, thanks to Carly, a little fruit juice and I was all set. Now it's just a matter of healing and the hair growing back so I don't look like a freak!

Note the fine Hell City merchandise I scored for working the weekend. :)

Some more pictures from around Hell City this weekend. My vendor pass, working the merchandise booth on about 3 hours of sleep, the mercandise booth with some of my cohorts in retail, the laser projection things set up around the Hyatt, the entrance to the Ohio girls roller derby match, the admissions girls, mullet man, Hell City banner, Stained Skin's booth front and center on the main floor, Art Fusion (6 artists collaborating on multiple pieces), the main stage, new friends getting tattooed, and two girls who have been walking around the free area of the convention for at least 2 hours but won't drop the $ to go in, and finally the man in charge, Durb, getting interviewed.

Didn't get photos of the Suicide Girls, Kat Von D, or the incredible artwork of Nick Baxter or Joe Capobianco.

All in all a great deal of work, a very small amount of sleep, but a fun weekend, would love to make it out to the Phoenix show in August of next year.

Hell City Tattoo Festival Brought to you by: Stained Skin "Columbus' finest tattooing and piercing 13 years strong." 1255 N High St Columbus, OH 43201

Even after the long drive and getting in after 2am, we still got up and made it to the Hyatt before 8am. Spent the morning helping things get setup and now I'm hanging out in the Fine Art Gallery & Tattoo Museum to make sure nothing walks off. Some great artwork in here. One that stands out more is Nick Baxter. I want this piece.

Officially I don't think things kick off for another 20 minutes, but there's already people milling about all over the hotel. It's going to be a good day. :)

My bag is packed, snacks are on hand, and the carputer is loaded with new music. To Hell City!

I think they should pass out aviator helmets to every senior that gets a scooter. It would be much more entertaining.

With a dying harddrive in my desktop, I finally busted out the best buy gift cards from christmas and my birthday and scored a nice fat 400GB harddrive and a gig of ram for my laptop. Four hundred gigs takes for-freaking-ever to format. :P