Mission Statement

A.LtERNativE tRek: Life, my final frontier. These are my life voyages as A. Lerner. My continuing mission, to explore my strange new world, seek out new relationships, to finally boldly experience where I've always dreamed before. Below, to the left of this mission statement, is my autobiography, Then click the links. Scrolling below, you will SIGHT my daily postings, frequently updated in red. Use upper-left search-box for finding specific topics. Empowered by ASpie Operating System. On 2/21/08, this statement was replaced. The current one is on the top of this page.

Charlie Brown is an Aspie

Charlie Brown was widely introduced by Charles Shultz around 1958, when I was born. I always identified with them. It was with good reason. They are Aspies! When I was a child, my sister gave me a tan sweatshirt that I treasured. It had C.B.'s picture on it with the phrase "How can we loose when we are so sincere" This demonstrated the honesty, naivete, and Perseverance of Aspies. Charles Shultz died recently. I now have the same bald head as Charlie. My newest T-shirt incorporates his image, and the Aspie words listed. It is a very clever shirt that I am proud of. I gave it to Leslie. She loves it as well. She plans to wear it on Fridays at work.

Woo Hoo

Click Woo Hoo above for Woo Hoo - Blur, and play the video!

1968 TV = 40 years ago.

In 1968 or 1967, I remember a TV commercial for Chevrolet automobiles. This is what I remember of a jingle: "Chevy is first, leading the way... Our savings explosion is happening today... 1968 savings... Explo Explo Explo! (fireworks exploding in the background)." I believe "Explo" was the name of an automobile. CHEVROLET '68 SAVINGS: good color―Frankie Randall and Jenny Smith sing together to advertise the "Chevy Explo" of savings―they both sing on a Ferris wheel.

516-770-3766 and 321-214-9855

I have had excellent home telephone service with Vonage for more than three years. I have unlimited usage in Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States @ $14.99/month for one year. I also have 750 anytime anywhere minutes with my mobile phone @ $14.95/month. However, since I only use less then about 250 minutes/month, and my tenants only use their mobile phones, I changed my plan for 321-214-9855 today. My plan is now $4.99/month for unlimited incoming or calls to Vonage accounts. Each outgoing call is 3.9 cents per minute. 250 minutes x .039 = $10. $10+4.99 = 14.99. Click here for more postings on this subject.

Longest Employment

#1) Convergys, Lake Mary FL
.....11/21/05 - Today!
.....2 years, 7 months, 4 days

#2) Bed Bath & Beyond, L.I.
.....02/26/96 -10/01/98
.....2 years, 7 months, 3 days

#3) M.H.T. / Chemical Bank, L.I.
.....09/14/90 -04/13/93
.....2 years, 7 months .................................click for next page

I was on ABC TV News

Click here for a frozen still including my picture.
Click here for the full video shown on ABC TV.

Controversial New Movement: Autistic and Proud
Activists Say Stop Looking for a Cure and Accept Autistic People as They Are
By DEBORAH ROBERTS, MICHELLE MAJOR and JONANN BRADY
June 10, 2008: ABC NEWS
I was on "Good Morning America", accross the USA.
I am an Aspie.

Edith Miriam, Flag Day, 6/14/1918

1918 is the year my mother was born. Her father, and my my maternal grandfather, Bernard is shown below. I guess he obtained this souvenir in France in 1918, and it is one of the few of her cherished possessions that my mother was able to protect from being discarded. I wish I knew of my mother's family.

Today is my mother's birthday of 90 years ago. This is Flag day. I was born in 1958, 40 years later. I believe I am the first one to be born in Long Island. I believe my Mother was born, and grew up in The Bronx . Her father died when she was 11 or 12. He was born in Lithuania. Her mother was born in Hungary, and died before I was born. Consequently, I am named Andrew after her name of Ana.

Sheet Metal #2

Jennifer Lerner

I am very happy for my neice Jennifer, and her partner Darcy Galane. Click on title for more information

&rew Lerner design

Change, Hope, Inclusion & Pride. &rew Lerner design

3 Years Lake Mary Home

3 years ago today, I purchased my first own home, and did so in cash.
It is the longest I have lived alone in my own home.
This is the largest and nicest home I have ever lived in.
I have lived in Lake Mary Florida for three years.
My life has never been so comprehensively good as it is here, for 3 years.
I have had my longest and best tenant and roommate here.
There is no place or time I would rather be than here and now.
I have never saved as much on my car insurance since I moved to Florida.

Lake Mary Orlando Roommate wanted to share 6 luxury room rent $350.

ALtERNativE Reasoning is A. Lerner

During my entire life, I have tried to fit in to rigidity, intolerance, and inflexibility. My aim was to become apart of my world, and to become a learner. This is illustrated with my clever logo (top left), using my name, "A. Lerner."

My world and I did not know about an Aspie until recently. However, I have always known that I used reasoning that was alternative to most of my world. I have been proud of, and worked hard to express my independent thinking. This is illustrated in my other very clever logo, also using my name. My first name is listed three times! Aspies must use alternative reasoning to become a learner.

LeArner

Kijiji

Kijiji (Swahili for village) is a centralized network of online urban communities for posting local classified advertisements. It is a subsidiary of eBay and was launched in March 2005.[1] Kijiji websites are currently available for more than 300 cities in Germany. Further Kijiji countries are France, Italy, Canada, China, India, Taiwan and Japan. Kijiji was made available to selected cities in the United States on June 29, 2007. Picture of my room for rent

Generation Jones

Seventies America, exhausted by the intensity of the 60s and burnt out from the impact of the Boomers, just wasn't ready for yet another generation. By decade's end, with the 1-2 punch (in late '80) of Ronald Reagan's election and John Lennon's assasination, authentic youth culture was driven deep underground. In fact, with the exception of hip-hop, there were no significant youth movements in 80s America. By the time the 90s rolled around, the nation was finally open again to the idea of a new generation and attention was paid to the teens and twenties (Generation X) who were proclaiming their collective identity.

Stereo Stereo TV 1975

In December, 1975, I designed the advertisement and direct-mail letter. At that time, Panasonic "was slightly ahead of its time." I used "ditto" technology to produce the documents shown here. The picture was inspired by Sony. "DP-3" was alluding to 3D & Digital projection. The following did not exist for TVs & consumers in 1977: Stereo sound, digital or automatic fine tuning, Digital transmission, 3-D, video & audio inputs & outputs, and projection.

The following technology did not exist: Personal or home computers, desktop publishing, the Internet, and digital TV. Today we have all of the above, including HDTV in 5.1 surround sound home theater! There are "3-D" TVs that use the traditional double picture out of phase, that gives the illusion of 3-D when you wear special eye-wear. This is similar to an I-Max presentation.

The address mentioned for my "Circuit City" type store was a vacant lot. Today, there is an office building for "David Lerner & Associates!" At the time, Lafayette Radio Electronics was headquartered in Syosset, where my mother worked there. In 1991, Circuit City entered the New York City market by acquiring the remnants of the failed Lafayette Radio chain. Lafayette-Circuit City fell due to competition from other New York area electronic retailers such as Newmark and Lewis, Trader Horn, The Wiz, Crazy Eddie and PC Richard. Today, on Lafayette Street in Syosset, is a Home Depot. I was offered a job by Lafayette in Syosset, and employed at the future nearby Circuit City in Hicksville 10/98 - 6/00. I also worked at The Wiz.

In 2003, Circuit City converted to a single hourly pay structure in all stores, eliminating commissioned sales. Many previously commissioned sales associates were offered new positions as hourly "product specialists", while 3900 salespeople were laid off, saving the company about $130 million a year.[5] Associates in both the domestic and international segment receive frequent training through interactive E-learning courses hosted on the company intranet known as ccity.com. In the beginning, the E-learning courses were developed in conjunction with Circuit City's training department and DigitalThink. As of 2007, all coursework is developed internally and the deployed and hosted on an LMS system by Convergys, my employer since 11/05. In a press release on March 28, 2007, Circuit City announced that it had laid off approximately 3400 of their associates who were paid above the salary range for their position in order to cut costs. In April 2008, video rental firm Blockbuster launched a takeover bid worth over $1 billion.[3]

FL tag

JJ Art

Lake Mary FL: $400 private furnished June

Click the above title. I am renting out a private furnished room with a private full bathroom. $400 will include A/C, electricity, high-speed Internet access, CATV, and purified water. Lake Mary is the #1 rated place to live in the southern United States By Money Magazine, and CNN.
LATE MAY
LAKE MARY

Identification

Relativity Day

Theory of Relativity Day – Commemorating the day in 1906 when Albert Einstein, an Aspie, introduced his Theory of Relativity, the process of converting matter into energy.
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relativity = The quality or state of being relative. A state of dependence in which the existence or significance of one entity is solely dependent on that of another. Physics: Special & General relativity. This originally posted 4/5/08. I wore a T-shirt today, and to work, like the picture shown left. Learn about Einstein