May 1st

[jackjanderson]

A couple of unrelated points:

I'm sick. I've got some kind of virus, started coming down with it last night - temperature, congestion, coughing, sneezing and very little throat. No appetite and all my old bones are aching. Probably only a bad cold but it's a doozy of one. Today has most been spent curled up on the couch, watching Star Trek on Netflix and doing crosswords on my tablet.

I do not like my twitter name. It's currently flyingtojack. jackjanderson has already been taken which is annoying because that would be my preference. So, my question, as I'm pondering this, is: how do you choose your social media handles?

I mentioned in my last post that Samantha has been 'suggesting' that Lucy & I start blogging again. With Lucy, it's become less of a suggestion and more of a demand so I suspect Lucy will also start updating her journal again. It helps with her mental health, gives her an outlet and she enjoys being able to talk to people about fandom things. I know I do enjoy blogging when I'm doing it but always struggle to think of things to post so I went onto the Pinterest and found one of those 30 day writing challenges. I was going to answer the first one in this post but honestly feel like I'm about to go back to sleep, so maybe later

Comments

[redbird]

I mostly seem to use either "redbird," which isn't my real name or something people call me offline, and has the disadvantage that it's often already taken; vr or vicki when I can get them because I got there early or it's a relatively small site; and sometimes rosvicl, which nobody else ever wants and that a handful of people will recognize as me. (It was my username on the mainframe computer system back in college.)

And a couple of odd things in places where it seems to be the custom to use something that obviously isn't one's real name. I'm not going to identify myself, but Ask a Manager is full of regular commenters with handles that include movie and television characters, and a few in-jokes like "Guacamole Bob." (The site owner just wants people to use something other than "anonymous" and not to use sock-puppets, but is fine with someone changing their handle from, say, "Gene" to "Free Meerkats.")