Keeping busy / new ink

Over the last month or so I've been AWOL from this site and from gaming in general. Work has been brutal the last few weeks (for good reasons though - the near future looks very promising for my career) and I also took a much-needed vacation. My family, including my wife's parents, went to Cancun for a week where I gained 10 pounds and spent many hours a day sucking down Dos Equis by the pool.

I've also been dealing with a very demanding baby. He's 9 months old now and very needy, and screams louder than I thought a baby could ever possibly scream, the moment he is not being held.

In January I started playing Star Wars: The Old Republic and really enjoyed the game. As things got crazy in my life, though, I went literally three weeks at one point without even powering up my gaming PC. Realizing I'm paying for the time I'm not using, and as much as I like the game, I had to cancel my subscription. I did manage to find an hour to play Red Dead Redemption - another game that's amazing but I just couldn't find the time to play, but at least I don't have to maintain (and pay for) a subscription.

I did manage to find a bit of time last weekend to put together a doodle. Since my first son was born i've wanted to get a tattoo. One member of the site (who has been inactive for quite some time now) is a tattoo artist, and I spoke to him about designing an ambigram with my son's name. He never came through and since then, my second son was born, so last weekend I started doodling my own ambigram design. Came up with a design I was happy with in about an hour and a half:

One angle (Tyler):

Another angle (Gavin):

A lot of credit goes to the tattoo artist for turning it from a doodle into a "real" tattoo.