the following is a hastily written confessional (a beginning), which i hope to build on and reconstruct later. its really done as a form of therapy.

I decided I was going to tattoo back in late eighties, and so I did. I taught myself. which was the wrong way to go about it. but I didn't want to have some old tattooer yelling at me. and so I created and perpetuated a lot of bad habits in my tattooing, habits that made me slower. Now I wish I had entered tattooing the right way. but I've never done anything the normal way. I always have to try to reinvent normal ways of doing stuff. which means it takes me forever to get anything done. If i just went through normal channels I would save myself a lot of work.