Bitcoin Core isn't generally intended to have a single address. It is designed with the idea that the user should generate a new address for every transaction.
Therefore ,whenever you need an address, you just hit the request payment and get a new address for that transaction.
The software takes care of keeping track of all your addresses for you and managing all the bitcoins you've received regardless of which address they arrived on.
It shows Number of Connections : 8 (In: 0 / Out: but the blocks are coming at a crawl. Last wallet i d/l I think was a bit faster.
Before you send BTC from your bitcoin wallet you need to wait and finish sync with server because you willd not see your btc recieved anymore. just like mine.