A Rose by Any Other Name...

I posted on another blog a few days ago in a thread about "Nerd Chic". (If you want to see the post, head on over to Fantasy and SciFi Lovin' Blog.)My user ID on the blog sever is "texasboyblue". One of the other posters asked where I got that moniker. He likened it to a porn star stage name. While I am flattered (sorta), as my grandfather used to say, "It just ain't so."

I am the rarest of American breeds. I am a native Texan having been born in Austin, Texas over 40 years ago. I have lived all my life in one Texas municipality or another and I am guilty of being as over-weeningly proud of these facts as any other native Texan you might meet. That at least explains the "texasboy" part of my ID...

Several (don't ask for a specific number) years ago, I began playing spades (the card game) at The Zone. It was a Microsoft site, so you had to have a Hotmail ID. At the time I was living in San Antonio, so my user ID was texasboy_sa. Years later, I was needing a new user name for a website I was playing with and darned if texasboy_sa wasn't already taken (by me). So, I came up with a variant: texasboyblue. It became, as these things do, my default username. I use it on all kinds of accounts.

So, when I signed up for Blogger.com, it was the handiest tag. Pretty mundane, I know. Maybe I'll tell everybody its my stage name in my next blog...