![and another face shot](davehs1.jpg")
For fun, another
SMALLER picture of me (head/torso shot) is here, closer to the bottom of
this page and to the right. To the right there's a full body shot. I'm
46 years old, I'm 5'5" and have dark brown hair (graying), a mustache
(also graying) and a beard (which is graying, too). My left eye is brown
and my right eye is kind of misty darkish blue (thanks to internal lens
implants). I weigh in at around 150 pounds, wear glasses and carry a white cane.
The cane helps me travel. Why do I carry a white cane in my pictures? CAUSE I'M BLIND! *gryn*
What's behind the pictures, though? What makes me tick? One window onto this is my profile as collated through the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. It rates me as an INFJ, and those who know me tend to agree with this assessment.
Since November of 1996 I have heightened the self-study of personal computers and the Internet which began in 1984. I have kept current through such activities as the successful completion of a number of private and public computer consulting jobs. These have included one in August of 1997 for the Riverside Campus of Austin Community College (see Letter of Recommendation).
Currently I'm an IT consultant but I have worked telephone Internet tech support. If
you'd like to know what IT support is like (or if you've ever done Internet tech support
over the phone) listen to this song. If you know what it's
like to do what I do already it's BOUND to bring a smile to your face. I found the tune on my friend,
Ruth's Website. We don't know who performed this little number, but it seems
*almost* an anthem for our occupation.
Experienced in PC's, starting a small business, marketing and PR, I am fully willing and able to work for the firm that is intelligent enough to hire me. If anyone reading this page is hiring, please take a moment to view my resume page.
I have a desire to leave some small corner of this world in a
better state than I originally found it. To that end I have been involved
for over a decade now, in advocacy work with my fellow blind persons and
their sighted friends. 
I
am an enthusiastic supporter of the National Federation
of the Blind. Members and friends of the NFB have a strong commitment
to the betterment of life for the blind now, and in the future.
Recently I've become involved with Operation Just Cause, which helps to remind the United States government that there are still men and women missing in Southeast Asia from the Viet Nam war. I encourage everyone to adopt a POW or MIA and help with the work to finally bring them home.
When I'm not working or on computers I enjoy hobbies such as amateur radio (Callsign N 5 R U L), science fiction books/movies, anime (Japanese animation) and discussing the political happennings of the day and history.
I can do lots of things outside like walking/hiking, swimming and photographing nature these days. Visitors to my site can see a few examples of my earlier photographic efforts here and there.
Living in Texas where I'm originally from it was usually too hot to do much outdoors for about seven months out of the year. That all changed when I moved to Burlington, Vermont in August of 2002. Here in Burlington the summers are shorter and cooler. Autumn comes with the sort of spectacular display of Fall leaves that draws tourists known as 'leafers'
or 'peepers' from around the world. Then there's Winter. In Texas I used
to dream of living in places that looked like the Christmas cards I'd see
and now I'm doing just that. The other locals complain a bit about the
snow but personally I still find its beauty magical.
To the left is a picture of Burlington's idea of downtown. It's a great example of why I love this city. It's the largest one in Vermont but its compactness makes it easy to get around in. City bus service in Burlington is superior to some larger cities I've lived in, partially because there are several college and university campuses here. We have all of the malls, shops, clubs and restaurants that a modern city dweller could wish for and yet when our high school puts on a play it still makes the local nightly news.
I'm still a Texan, born and bred with a pride in my home state and its people that will never fade. That being said though I'm VERY glad I made the move to New England's cooler climes.
We found that we both like cats, have some of the same political persuasions
and agree on certain moral issues that too many people today (we feel) don't
really care about anymore--like honor and personal integrity. Online talk
soon moved to telephone talk and we began to meet for conversation online
regularly usually with a long phone call later.
It wasn't long before I decided to make the move up to Burlington to live
with Paula, her kids and their cats. We've made a home for ourselves,
weathered the inevitable teething troubles of relationships and are forging
ahead to make a good life for ourselves.
When I first began doing my bio page years ago it was only 'me' and 'I'.
Now that's become 'we' and I couldn't be happier.
On IRC I'm known as Aggedor. If you see me about, say hi!
I'm a cat man from way back and so is my fiance`, Paula pictured on the right.
We met on Internet Relay Chat in the late summer of 2001. Ironically enough
I caught her attention because I was talking about how much I'd like a
change of scenery and a move to a cooler climate. Vermont had been on my
short list of places to move to for around twenty years and when I mentioned
Vermont Paula first sent me a private message.
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