A.J.Fedor
Hey! Thanx for stopping by!
My name is A.J.Fedor and the picture is actually pretty recent. I'm actually north of my mid sixties and live just east of Cleveland, Ohio - USA. Went to Harvey Rice elementary, Audubon Jr. High, John Adams Sr. High and finally, Crestwood High School in Mantua. So, if you think you know me, I'd love to hear from you, unless you think you're gunna sign me up as an Amway distributor. As of now, I'm already in a few, but only because I actually like the products, but I'm also the world's worst networker , so don't ask. ;o)
I recently closed my Facebook and Twitter accounts; cuz besides not having time for "social networking," I'm beginning to find them too intrusive and I flat out don't need a lotta that stuff anymore. So, now you can no longer reach me reach me through social media. Though I spend an awful lot of time on the web, none of it is on social media. I can't really get into going there everyday to see who's doing what 24/7. Call me insensitive but I really don't care when folks trim their toenails or how cute their dog looks in his new sweater. I like to think questions like: "What are you doing now" are like none of anyone's business. Besides, when most folks reach my age, the most exciting news has something to do with a recent surgury or a bodily function that no one really needs to hear about. Ooooooh T.M.I!! Mean eh? Ain't it cool? I love it! If I thought being a "Crotchety Old Fart" was gunna be so much fun, I'd have made the switch 20 years ago! (Though I am having fun playin "catch-up." Ha Ha!)
Okay, at home, I have two land lines, three cheap computers, (or maybe four - I forget) about ten email addresses and usually carry two cheap cell phones. However, for what its worth, I don't walk around holding a cell phone. I don't have a cell phone surgically attached to my head or my hand either. If they didn't vibrate when they ring, I wouldn't know where they are on my person. I don't text, or answer texts or cell phone voice-mails for that matter. I even disabled the call waiting on my phones in an effort to teach folks under 35, what the old "busy" signal was all about. Why is it that nowadays we feel like we have to give the "interrupter" priority? Hey, I'm talking here; Wait your turn, Jack!! What? Didn't yer mama teach ya no stinkin' manners? I'd rather give the new caller a busy signal than be rude to the one I was talking to first. Besides, if its really that important, they can call back, just we did a thousand years ago, right? When my black cell phone rings, it means a law firm is calling me with a client, and the silver one ringing would mean something like my house is on fire. (I like the black best one best)
I'm easier to spot in a crowd as time goes by. Besides my hairstyle, I'm probably the only old guy in a T-shirt, sneakers and jeans, with no tattoos, earrings, and no dog, who's probably smiling but not talking on a stupid cell phone.
Home Life
Barbara and I started dating when we were 17, and we were married a couple years later. That was forty-nine years ago. (imagine that!) Within a few years, we even had some kids. Now a couple of them are married with families and one's still lookin.' Got some Grandkids, Great Grandkids; all that cool stuff. We live out in Amish country, east of Cleveland, Ohio.
Gave my heart to the Jesus Christ on Christmas day 1969. That was a great day! Yeah, I'm one of those. (NO! I don't handle snakes! Don't ask! :o) ) Still play the harmonica, except a whole lot better than I used to. (at least that's what I tell myself :o)) I play both Gospel and Jazz on a Chromatic harmonica and sometimes like to mix'em together. Spent ten years pretty much full time traveling as an evangelist with the Assemblies of God Church. During that time, I actually did over a thousand services/concerts, ministering in the Word and music. Lots of work, but very exciting! The ministry took Barbara and I all over the Great Lakes area, to Australia for a few months, five "one month" tours to Hawaii, and a month in Alaska, (in November, pretty much in retribution for a couple of the Hawaii tours I did in February.
Nowadays I mostly play on the worship team at the church we attend. I own and run SlideMeister International Chromatic Harmonica Fellowship; a thirteen year old harmonica news/discussion group that takes pride in being the only harmonica group on the web that (strictly in an effort to achieve balance) is blatantly biased and discriminatory against anything but the Chromatic, bass and chord harmonicas. Talking about strawberries, a man once said: "Ya hafta love a fruit with the audacity to wear its seeds on outside!" SlideMeister's like a strawberry; WYSIWYG!
Gave my heart to the Jesus Christ on Christmas day 1969. That was a great day! Yeah, I'm one of those. (NO! I don't handle snakes! Don't ask! :o) ) Still play the harmonica, except a whole lot better than I used to. (at least that's what I tell myself :o)) I play both Gospel and Jazz on a Chromatic harmonica and sometimes like to mix'em together. Spent ten years pretty much full time traveling as an evangelist with the Assemblies of God Church. During that time, I actually did over a thousand services/concerts, ministering in the Word and music. Lots of work, but very exciting! The ministry took Barbara and I all over the Great Lakes area, to Australia for a few months, five "one month" tours to Hawaii, and a month in Alaska, (in November, pretty much in retribution for a couple of the Hawaii tours I did in February.
Nowadays I mostly play on the worship team at the church we attend. I own and run SlideMeister International Chromatic Harmonica Fellowship; a thirteen year old harmonica news/discussion group that takes pride in being the only harmonica group on the web that (strictly in an effort to achieve balance) is blatantly biased and discriminatory against anything but the Chromatic, bass and chord harmonicas. Talking about strawberries, a man once said: "Ya hafta love a fruit with the audacity to wear its seeds on outside!" SlideMeister's like a strawberry; WYSIWYG!