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So i figure while I'm still live I might as well post. Many changes since I've been on the other side of the world for a few weeks. Can't say I'm happy to be back, other than to sleep in my own bed and walk butt ass naked around my house. I did miss my drumset...alot. And I really was starting to miss my art projects as well...as I'm super close to finishing a huge piece up. So, back to gray, boring, sickly Ohio. While I was out and about in Micronesia I had what could be called the best trip of my life. Smoked some local herb on a ship in the ocean watching the sharks circle and the stars overhead. Did some wreck dives on sunken Japanese ships, swam with giant manta rays, sharks, sea turtles, jellyfish...a whole clusterfuck of aquatic adventure. And it wouldn't have been complete without a trip to the hyperbaric chamber for six hours, thanks to my disregard of personal safety and choice of diving to depths of 130+ feet. I've been somewhat fucked up physically since, suspecting I have a pocket of air squeezed from my left lung trapped below my ribcage and my skin. Awesome stuff really. Doctors didn't do shit about it. Until it heals, I'm sucking down pain meds. But whatever...I want to go back as soon as I possibly can afford to. And then, continue on to Japan. I feel like I'm over the U.S. after seeing how sick and depraved everyone looked in comparison to everyone in Asia. Really, it was reverse culture-shock upon arriving back stateside. Its no wonder we're a joke to the rest of the world. We can't get off our fat-asses and out of our sweat pants.

But enough of the bitching. I was inspired enough by my experience to realize I want to finish up my chest-piece with a manta ray backfilling the remainder of the open space. Should be cool. Gonna draw it up and superimpose it over a pic of my chest first to see how it will look.

As for the near future, I should be sorting through the 2600 photos I took and posting some when I get the chance (its been nice to be unplugged for a while). Thinking this weekend I might get to it.

Other than that, my birthday is next week. All my awesome plans that I made for it before my departure fell through, so now I'm feeling like I have no clue whats gonna go down. Suppose I'll have to think of something...I'm turning 30 for fucks sake!I want to burn down my 20's in style! Lemme know of any swell ideas you might have...