u/TrabLlechtim

I was a working musician back in the early 90's. Got a job opportunity and took it. 30 years later, I'm retired from that job. I always had instruments in my office and would occasionally jam with friends or play around the campfire. That said, I've started wood-shedding again and building my chops back up.

Back when I was college age, getting a gig was as easy as posting on (believe it or not) real message boards. Not the digital kind, but regular cork and tacks.

I'd love to get back into playing with a band/bands again. When I worked, I played bass, but I'm comfortable on a range of instruments.

Where do people look for bandmates these days?

I'm looking at changing my Sprinters head unit to the DUDU7 13". I already have the single din trim. It has an older Sony unit now. Will I need a new CANBUS box? When I search for a 2018 on Amazon, it only gives me results for 2019-2022.

We road-trip to see family in Saskatchewan. The Crowsnest pass is around the halfway mark. Our old motor home didn't have any slides, so we could do some quick sleeping in the rest areas. I know that 'camping' in Alberta rest areas is prohibited, and is defined as 'Setting up a tent, putting out lawn chairs, BBQ's and extending camper slide outs.

Our new motor home is a 24' sprinter with one large slide on one side. Problem is, the bed folds in half when the slide is in. The only way to sleep is to put out the slide.

If we arrive at night and are gone within 8 hours, do you think the RCMP will hassle us?

My mom has been moved into permanent memory care. She still has her Samsung A17 phone and can still call and text family. She also likes to play solitaire. I go and visit her every couple days. Quite often when I visit, I see her phone has been completely filled up with garbage apps. She has like 10 UI interfaces, each with a crazy amount of ads that hijack her phone. She also has dozens of 'battery optimizers' and 'data cleaners' along with a dozen or more solitaire and mahjong apps (she doesn't know how to play mahjong)

I've set the Google Play store to the most restrictive level, and added my own password she doesn't know. I put in a call blocker so her phone only rings when it's someone in her contact list. I've a couple apps that claim to prevent things from being installed, but they seem even worse than the stuff that was already getting in.

I suspect that she's finding these apps using the Chrome browser, but I'm not sure. When I ask her why she installs these programs, she claims that she doesn't do it and that the phone does it itself.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent apps from getting installed, or have any idea how she's finding them?

Whenever I read about CD's or bonds as investment vehicles, there's almost always a mention of inflation. Especially how those investments are better than holding cash because they help prevent devaluation from inflation.

Why isn't inflation talked about when looking at index funds? At the individual stock level, inflation can have wildly different effects, but those should be fairly leveled out on index funds. The gains of the past 3 years do look amazing, and probably over inflated compared with earnings. But if you plug in the inflation of the past 3 years as well, the gains don't look nearly as good.

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So who inspired you to pick up the bass?
For me it was two guys:
Floyd Peppers hypnotic bass lines and Derek Smalls infectious grooves