Off Topic Username/avatar curiousity

[sloshep]

I needed a user name for some sight years ago. I was living in San Luis Obispo at the time. I have the nickname of Shep. There were and are too many Sheps out there, so I came up with sloshep. Even though I moved away from SLO almost 9 years ago, I kept the handle. My current avatar is of one my cats sitting on a Wii Fit Balance Board. I thought it was kind of fitting for the new year with everyone on diets again.

 

[aBoMoFo]

Forum handle is a mashup of my initials "B. M. F." and "FoMoCo" (Ford Motor Company genuine factory replacement parts) = "BoMoFo". My brother is very involved with a mustang car club that calls itself "PoMoFo" so that's where the name originated from. A while back I lost some of my old logins in places so I added the "a" to keep things in the same vein with "aBoMoFo".

The picture is one of me playing my Stingray 5HH at Fitzgeralds in Houston, TX. I grew up going to shows at this place (saw John Paul Jones there once infact) and it meant alot to me when I finally got back into playing live music and playing gigs there after 5 years away from home.