Gratuitous beefcake shot*

This pic is about six years old, taken back when I was 10 pounds meatier, pierced in three places and slightly astigmatic. And going through my pouty buzz-cut phase.

*Posted solely to generate comments about the wood paneling in my old basement—in the interest of testing my new Haloscan comment system, of course. This picture was in no way dug up and trotted out to solicit lewd, unseemly propositions or to relive the memories of my younger, beefier days in the saggy, wrinkly weeks after my 37th birthday.