I did my first Open Mic on Sunday, November 6, 2005. It was my first time on stage, as well as the first time I’d ever voluntarily stood up in front a group of people. It was not a pleasant feeling. Yet somehow it went all right. People seem to like me. I rarely understand why. Perhaps it’s my manly scent. I’ve been told it’s pleasant -- just not a smell you would want to mate with.