Crazy Drummer Stuff

  Kathy and I working for Executive Express in Newport Beach, 1987 Medivan, spring - summer 1981 Well, after I had visited Janne in November of 1980, I decided to follow his lead and move to California and pursue my own adventure.  I was 25 years old, with no particular ties to Sweden, no kids and no wife.  I was a free man!  So, at the end of January 1981, I was back in California!  First things first; I needed a California Driver’s License, which, after two tries, I got sometime not too long after I arrived in CA.  Not long after, I ended up in a little apartment at Parkside La Palma Apartments; 1000 East La Palma, in Anaheim.  This was a little studio apartment, fully furnished, and I think I paid $325 a month for some 500 square feet.  Armed with my new CA Driver’s License and my new Social Security Card (see below) I had found a little job through the local newspaper The Orange County Register, driving for a non-emergency medical transportati...

  My Presam work ID card, circa 1980.  I had combed my hair as a rocker as a silly joke.   As I’m writing this, I’ve been employed full-time since  the spring of 1976, so it seems I’ve been working continuously for almost 50 years, earning a paycheck!  Not bad, and the rewards have been plenty; food, rent money, mortgage money, buying stuff (cars, pickup trucks, drums, houses, horses, education, vacations, etc.), and making sure that my family was fed and had a roof over their heads.  I like working, and I’m still at it, and I’ll keep it up as long as anybody is willing to pay me for what I do, whatever that is!  A little note about my employment history back in Sweden; back then (1970-1980) it was customary to issue a final written performance review, and for some reason, I saved them all, with the exception of my first job.  So, even though I had forgotten the dates, when I found the records (you will see them below), the dates became accur...