And just for variety, while the art business waned in Florida, he spent that time at a series of interesting jobs, some of which were Technical support for Dell Computer, SNET and FUSE Internet, Palm VII Handhelds, Mattel Computer Games and others, Circuit City in the Computer Department, A "Boo" Portrait at Universal's Haunted Halloween Nights, Night Auditor at A Ramada Inn and even a US Postal Service Carrier. Its not been boring...

Working on Trek Comics lead to Arne’s becoming a regular guest at Star Trek and media conventions. His Hollywood connections with major studios provide him with “teasers,” trailers, and behind-the-scenes pieces to present at conventions to delight the fans, as well as bringing all those wonderful giveaways the studios provide. Arne also became an actor due to his association with Star Trek - performing in stage radio plays with Bill Campbell and John De Lancie at various conventions, which grew into full-blown radio plays on the bi-annual SeaTrek cruises. The late Mark Lenard (“Sarek,” Spock’s father) noticed Arne and brought him into his Masters Acting Class in New York. Arne won parts in six different plays during the first year he began auditioning - the lead in Sunshine Boys, stand-in lead Anatoly in the musical Chess, the bellhop in Lend Me a Tenor, other roles in Arsenic in Old Lace and Singing in the Rain and various parts in Showcases from Mark’s studio. In Florida he played leads in the Neil Simon play, I Ought to be in Pictures, then the male lead in the play “Social Security,” and most recently, he played “Speed” in The Odd Couple and has also been in about a half dozen films out of the Full Sail film school in Winter Park, FL. Now an LA area resident, he has done a couple of independent films and also did some background work in the shows Curb Your Enthusiasm and Six Feet Under, and also got to be a survivor in Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. (And if you read the front page you saw that I've done a few more things since this was written).

Arne has three sons that he's proud of, Jordan, who is in high scool now in CT , Matthew, who is doing well in school, also in CT and seems to be doing OK with the ladies so he tells me, and Devin, who has become a Marine and is stationed in Yuma, Arizona and is about to get out, which I'm very happy about. Proud of my boys.