The photos and videos on this and subsequent pages were taken on 7/30/2001, almost 6 years after I earnestly embraced serious volleyball as a desperate part of the means to regain and advance my health. Then as now, I was not ANYWHERE near to being a great player. But I was much better than before starting. I happened to be wearing red that day. And just to warn you, these were shot as I was 7 months into an experiment of not cutting any hair (so I was told I looked like "the castaway").