Anyway, last weekend I was in Amsterdam for the afternoon to do some shopping and meet up for a beer with Orde<\/a> who was in town for the Mobilism<\/a> conference. I stopped in at the House of Tattoos<\/a> on the Haarlemmerstraat, and made an appointment for this weekend. (I had done some internet research into Amsterdam tattoo shops already; it wasn’t quite a spur-of-the-moment thing. The House of Tattoos had been an open tab for a while, and when we were walking down the Haarlemmerstraat a couple of weeks ago, I mentally bookmarked its physical location as well.)<\/p>\n For my first tattoo, the experience could not have been better. Everyone I spoke to there was super nice and welcoming. It was Sjap<\/a> who did my tattoo. When he called me through from the waiting area he spotted that I was reading Edge<\/a> magazine, and we basically spent the whole time talking about video and board games. I came in with a prepared design (the Aleona<\/a> logo that Mark Grossman<\/a> made for me a few years ago), and Sjap spent a good long time getting it in exactly<\/em> the right position on my arm, wiping the template off my skin several times before settling on the final, perfect angle. I’m absolutely delighted with the result.<\/p>\n Got a tattoo yesterday. I have wanted a tattoo for ages, but for a long time I put it behind artificial barriers: “if I achieve this goal, then I’ll allow myself to get a tattoo.” I made it into a reward for myself, and I always found ways to sabotage the goal, and to ensure … <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/tattoo-1.jpg\")
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