Totally agree - great thread idea; fresh and non-combative (ATM anyway!)

Hi Ludwig,
My 'nom de plume' is pretty self explanatory - I am physically disabled and in a powered wheelchair much of the time due to Rheumatoid Arthritis and spinal damage.

I am also the primary carer of a 10yo boy who is also classified as disabled. He has a form of Autism as well as a significant auditory processing disorder.

Needless to say life for us is challenging - but we are as optimistic as we can be given the circumstances. I try to provide the out of school experiences any parent usually does, so my very active son (sorry Christina) plays sport - training and a game weekly... but we have gone against State reverence/fanaticism for NRL and support AFL..

Why weary? Do ya really have to ask... lol.

cheers.

Hi Ludwig,
Some interesting replies from the above posters.

My moniker somewhat resembles my real first name- they both start with C and end with A.
When I was in High School, my best friend's grandfather suffered from mild dementia and usually was unable to remember my name.
He was such a sweet man, I have fond memories of his kindness.
So I thought it would be a nice thought to use the name, Celivia, he often called me by when he couldn't remember my real name as my moniker on OLO

Mine came from a short term fling I had with smoking various foods in a wok, which involved several failed experiments and a home which smelled like a dead campfire. My fling coincided with my discovery of OLO.

With my rudimentary understanding of the online world at the time, it didn't occur to me that chainsmoker might not be all that brilliant a choice. It's grown on me over time though and taught me a lot about the assumptions some people make.

Steel was a nickname given to be by a supervisor of a company where I used to work. I actually hated it, but it is now one of my pseudonyms.
When I registered on this forum, the name Steel was taken, so I added "Mann" the the end. The supervisor often called me the "Man of Steel", so Steel Mann is a variation of Steel Man.

A mate of mine, 25 years my senior, would probably have been an Oz, champion, in a very minor area of endeavour, if serving for Oz in a world war had not got in the way, & stolen his prime years.

As he put it, he was a hasbeen before he started, after that war, but better a hasbeen, than a never was.

He took great pleasure in leading me, & after me, another young fellow, to the top of our sport.

He taught me that being a hasbeen is something to be proud of, & being mentored by a top bloke is as good as it gets.

Ludwig

I have to confess, I am a nerd. A total nerd-girrrrl. I love science fiction as much as I love science, especially chaos theory and qantum physics because these disciplines hold so much promise not just in understanding everything around us, but to develop new technologies that will completely revolutionise medicine, industry - life, the universe and everything.

So, fractal became fractelle.

:-)