I am working for my old boss as a freelancer. I am updating the web site that I put together about 7 or 8 years ago. While going through the old files I stumbled across an old image of myself from the "old" version of the site (it is no longer online).

The photo was kind of dark... but... I looked closely.. it looked like... OH GOOD GOD WHAT IN THE NAME OF HEAVEN IS THAT! Long hair down to my shoulders. I looked ridiculous. It all came back to me. I used to wear my hair in a pony tail!!!! You can see in the photo I am wearing it loose. I suppose I wanted to "let my hair down" that day or something. This would explain why I find pony tail holders in drawers and boxes in my house every once in a while. It is like my brain blocked this out. I remember having long hair in a pony tail more than 20 years ago... I had no idea I wore one this recently.

I would have thought I learned my lesson the first time I had long hair and WHY I cut it off. Strange, dirty, nasty people on the street would approach me and ask to buy drugs, or ask me if I wanted to buy drugs, or if I knew where to buy some drugs. Basically I must have looked like an extra from NYPD Blue or Law and Order (the first half, not the court room part). I was much younger back then and had a FULL head of hair (unlike this more recent photo). Back then I was a lot thinner, had a scruffy beard and dressed very... "bohemian" (if I were a woman I probably would not have shaved my pits or wore makeup... this may explain my attraction to woman like that... but that's another story.)

It is practically a mullet... but since I didn't have enough hair on the top for a mullet... I don't think it actually qualifies.

Good lord. I just can't believe it. I was sure I only had that long hair once.

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-vern

HEY! What the---

Oh please!

If I was wanted by the FBI I would have changed my appearance more than that by now.



I am glad to see there doesn't seem to be any other Mennonites on that list.

-vern

OH NO!!! You're the reason they split-up!!!

Well, one of my side hobbies is TIME TRAVEL. I usually find any photos like this and ERASE the existence of the photographer who took them. Obviously I may have missed one or two along the way.

-vern

Face it Vern, ya just ain't the girl you used to be.

By the way. I just erased your existence and then had to put it back because one of your decedents... does something... really cool in the future.



p.s. More FYI. Sarah and John WERE destroyed by the machines. That's why they aren't real now. James Cameron IS a machine.
-vern

john that last one had me cracking up!

You know they begged me to stay and make it a "Fab Five", but I had to turn them down (they insisted I wear a wig). I warned John about Yoko but had to go back and undo it. For some reason it totally eliminated the internet. Go figure.



-vern

Hey folks ,take this act on the road, good material, (not the type to be used on A:M models....)

I actually WAS Ben Franklin. They never get my eyes right.

p.s. The whole thing with the key in the storm is how I lost my hair.

-vern

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I wish more of us wore robes like that, they are VERY comfortable. I think it would ease a lot of the tensions in the world. I look ridiculous in that outfit.

-vern

Vern , the Gandhi of Animation Master?