jayd, I'm just getting caught up now on your thread after a couple weeks away traveling. I can't really add anything new but can't resist mentioning again how awesome those waves look--and that's in addition to your superlative mustache and all-around wonderful shape/coloring.

Tom E and I are going to meet up in Portland to go to his barber; perhaps we should also go to the whisky place you mentioned. If so we'll most definitely raise a glass to your beard. In the meantime here's a toast from a glass of Woodford Reserve that I brought with me from a recent flight (apparently "Economy Comfort" does not describe your seat but the fact that you get two bottles of hooch--one for then, one to take with you--which is sort of brilliant).