this is me, then | 2004

One of the few pictures of your friendly neighborhood blogger you'll see with a cap on my head. I didn't wear hats after I became a teenager because I couldn't find one to fit my enormous head. In 2003, thanks to the internet and a trend where guys started wearing giant MLB caps with the brims flat as boards (thanks, Shyne) I found some fitted baseball caps came in sizes big enough to fit me and bought several, along with other adjustable baseball caps that are made for bigger people. The one I'm wearing is a Virginia Tech fitted, in honor of my alma matter.

I'm in my bedroom in this picture taken just last year. Dig the groovy paneling! My arm is on my Sony flat-screen TV, now three years old. I love that TV. I also love the swag-and-jabot window treatments, which I picked out and my mom made when I was in high school. It was part of my 'motel motif:' the name I gave to the redecoration of my room back then. I should also mention the Burberry shirt I finally found in a tall size in New York. It's a great shirt and I'm glad places like Rochester Big & Tall exist where people taller and bigger than averege can dress as well as the rest of the world.