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Vern, (aka Cybersnotty), on the other hand, can usually be found in the State of Altered.
Actually, Vern doesn't indulge in Altered States anymore, but used to. Now he's on a little health kick and currently abstains from alcohol and those other Nasty Habits with the notable exceptions of Caffeine and Nicotine . Both of which are on the "soon to be cut-down on" list.
(Yeah, right... where have I heard THAT before...
Being somewhat average in stature, Vern stands about five foot seven and three quarters inches, on a good day. Weighing in at a fluctuation between one hundred thiry five and one hundred forty pounds, Vern could be considered pretty good kite material for people living in the windy areas of the world. If you every see him in Chicago or Iceland, please tie a string to him. (No need to mention what you're doing, he already knows.)
Although Vern now resides in Suburbia, he spent a large number of years living in SanFrancisco (SanFranPsycho to some). Readers should not confuse Vern with a cowpoke or Rural Recluse, his experience in urban areas has made him more of a city-boy than a country bumpkin.
Having already spent so much time in Metro-popolis, Vern has been spending the last few years in a more rural area, doing many more rural-area type things. (Maybe it's old age setting in... eh-hem.)
Currently, his major interests are:
Workin' on The Website, goin' down down down, Workin' on The Website... about to slip now...
-That was to the tune of an old old song, I think it was called "Workin' in a Coal Mine" or something like that.
Anyway, Vern is also currently involved in some "terra-forming" of the property upon which he resides. To call it simple 'gardening' seems somehow an understatement, though gardening is certainly a part of it.
He has, in the past, had many other interests, and still has them to some degree, though in a less fervent way.
Of those can be included...
Painting, (sold a few, had one, -count 'em- one, in a small local gallery.
Creative writing... Poetry, Prose and of course, Humor (or more properly, attempts at Humor).
Roller Skating... Not done in more years than I will admit.
Computer Programming... Some very impressive work in C+ on a functional level, but never got into Graphics. Usually re-writing Dos functions and such to improve their pathetic performance.
Playing Pool... One of my true Great Loves , second only to possibly a Really Good Jaquzzi.
Playing Gypsy... No, not Rose Lee... Travelling. In particular, overland by way of camper-van.
Camping... Mountains or the Ocean.
-Occaisonally in town with a Gay friend-Vern was born on the First Day of October in the year Nineteen Hundred and something... making him, yes, you guessed it, a Libra.
Different definition of "Camping" though.
Favorites:
Food: Fresh home-grown strawberries dipped in dark chocolate.
Color: Transparent.
FilmType: "Spookys" - SciFi, Thriller-, Fantasy and of course, Comedy.
Music: A strange combo of Soul/R&B/Light Jazz/Mo-towny
(Tracey Chapman would be a good example, "Gimme One Reason to Stay Here", kinda stuff.) And, believe it or not, shunned of all shuns... some of the old late seventies, early eighties Disco.
Enough Already! Sheez!