My tat is finally in the nearly healed stage.
(For the red inked areas. The black inked areas healed weeks ago.)
It appears that I am one of those unfortunate souls who heal v...e...r...y slowly with colored inks.
All future tattoos will be strictly black inks. 
So what do I get next?
A giant scrimshaw sailing ship across my back? A pin-up girl on my bicep? (she'd have to be a thin and anorexic one to fit on my wimpy bicep!) A tramp-stamp globe showing the Pacific ocean? An electron microscope picture of a diatom? Big 'ol anchor on my shoulder? Old Norse runes spelling my name?
Hmmm....
"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson