Here I is, Live Incognito

[Axel Slingerland]

Greetings to you! My name is not Axel Slingerland. That was my stage name in my former life. It is now my Internet Persona. I've been a computer geek (nerd if you prefer) since 1986 when I bought a Mac Plus to run lights for my band. With the exception of about eight months during and after two major hospital stays, I've used a computer every day since then. But if you count cellphones, which technically are mini computers that also make phone calls, you could drop about for or five months off of that total.

Anyway... I just wanted to say Hello.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Welcome to the forum @Axel Slingerland ! I am glad that you found us and think you will feel at home here. We discuss just about any topic, and do our best to play nice with each other, here in our Sandbox.
The slogan from our old forum was something like “try not to offend others, and try not to be too easily offended”. It was the only guideline we needed and works pretty well as long as we all remember to follow it.

 

[Smithy]

Welcome @Axel Slingerland nice to have you here, thanks for registering.

 

[Cpvr]

Hey @Axel Slingerland welcome to the community!

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Hello again,

It's nice to see some new people and some people I kinda sorta know from another forum.

I have had the most fun day. My car has a flat, I called my insurance's Emergency Assistance people, they said a tow truck would be here at 3:00p, they never showed up. Then I so skillfully burned the only hash browns I had to go with our dinner, country fried steak, hash browns and country gravy. Fortunately, it was still edible as all that is left in the fridge is a pack of Costco's big hotdogs, like the ones they sell at the deli, but no buns or bread. That sounds even less appetizing than burnt hash browns.

I finish dinner, turn my computer on, but Spectrum is down, so no Internet. So I drove from Trondheim, Norway to Catanzaro, Italy in Euro Truck Simulator 2. But I arrived late. Of well, it's just a game.

Finally after three hours, the Internet was up again. So here I am. Hi!

 

[Faye]

@Axel Slingerland Elaborate on the Blues Rocker status.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

As I said before, yesterday I called a tow truck and they never showed up. I was about to call State Farm and request one again, but it occurred to me that I had no idea where the Donut is. So off to my favorite place to waste time, YouTube, I went. I looked up where the Donut is, but in the video I watched, when the guy got the jack out, he said something about a DC Air Compressor being included with some Dodge models. I looked up my Grand Caravan SE and I was happy to see there is one included.

So I went outside and looked, and it's in there. Assuming the thing works after 10 years, I'll be good to go. I was prepared to spend $200 plus to buy another tire, but my wife bought two at Costco two years ago, and they have a 5 year warranty. I called them and they will fix or replace the tire for free. I'll drink to that!

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Ok, so after two days of intermittent rain, quite heavy at times, the rain finally dried up. (And I mean that literally, we are on the border of the Mojave Desert here...) Every time I went outside to do this it would start raining again, and not knowing whether this thing can handle that I decided to wait.

I went outside and set the Air Compressor up, plugged it in, started the car, and hit power... Nothing. I was bummed. Then I noticed another plug and tried that one and joy of joys, it worked! I couldn't find the air pressure on the tire so I pumped up with the intentions of just getting us to Costco. It pumped up slowly and at 40 PSI, it "looked" the same as the rest of the tires so I stopped.

If it's not enough to get us to Costco on Monday, I'll just pump it up again. At least we can get to the grocery store now. Them cupboards are looking kinda bare... And it's finally Mocha Time!

 

[Schwallenstutter]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Axel Slingerland]

@Axel Slingerland Elaborate on the Blues Rocker status.

I'm so sorry I missed your post, Faye. I guess I'm not so observant these days.

By now you may have seen posts that explain what I mean by that, but just in case you haven't, I love to write, even if it's done with my index fingers and thumbs only. (When my Arthritis is behaving I can do 40 wpm...) I don't know how much you want me to elaborate so I'll just start at the beginning and rattle all off a somewhat abridged version.

My Dad was a guitarist, and at age 3, like all little boys, I wanted to be like Daddy. So I learned to play guitar, with one major difference. He played Blues, and I learned to play Classical guitar. I played my guitar every day, and eventually got quite good at it.

In 1971, my Dad was a truck driver for Coast to Coast Hardware and he took me to New York City with him when he was delivering a load of dish washers and refrigerators to a NYC Coast to Coast Warehouse. While we were there we went to see The Allman Brother Band play at the Fillmore East Auditorium. The following song changed my entire way of thinking about music.

I was 100% sold. I became a Blues Rock guitarist that day. When we got home I had my Dad take me to the guitar shop where I had been getting lessons, and I bought my first Les Paul guitar. A few months later The Allman Brothers Band "At Fillmore East" album came out, and within a month I had learned every guitar solo on the album. My Classical guitar sat in it's case, collecting dust after that. Out of all the albums I bought over the years, I bought more copies of "At Fillmore East" than any other one. It was my "warm up my fingers" album.

Sometime in the early 1990s the original album was released on CD, and after that I never bought any more copies of the album. That was almost 35 years ago, and I still have that CD... It's worth a lot more than I paid for it as it is now a collectors item.