Thank you for the welcome, gents. 

@pedant - I did change looks fairly drastically there, but it's good to mix things up occasionally.  It was passing strange to feel air on my cheeks again after a couple of decades of being furry, and not having hair in my face is different too.  I'll dig up a pic or two of the beard.

If/when I grow back the beard, I'll keep it trimmed short, as I (and the wife) both agree that the grey at my chin, but (mostly) dark everywhere else, looks better short. She tells me I have to grow it out long when it all goes grey.  I'm looking forward to it.

The HBC does, in a good-natured way, push for the solo moustache, but the club is, after all, all about the moustache.  I have no issue with that.

@oldtimer - Thank you.  I wish for some more density, but it is what it is, and I'm enjoying it.  I'm glad it doesn't cost much.  A little time, and some spare change for styling aids, and you're good to go. 

Kind of strange, really, you'd think more folks would be growing the face out.  Shaving supplies can be pretty expensive, especially if you use cartridge razors.  I'm looking at going to a DE razor, but I tend to use my cartridges much longer than most folks.  I find the only time I cut myself is when I have a new cartridge.  I've always used soap/cup/brush, never liked the canned stuff, a good brush lasts forever, and soap is cheap.

@smedstad - Hey!  I reconginze you, too!  And a couple of other folks that are here and there.  Yah, seems to be a little more activity here.