How did you pick your forum name

The name of my father's boat when I was a young child, he always took us out fishing and we loved being with him on those outings. Rest peacefully dad, you are fondly remembered.
 

When I retired I was offered a part time job teaching a class at the University. It was a totally new career and I loved it plus it was catchy with my name. There’s been times on other forums that I have been sorry because people think I taught in the public school system and want to argue about many things related to education.
 
My main role in my work world was to be a kind of "answer man" more than half the time. I didn't want that role at forum sites, and tried for something I thought to be more modest.

Little did I know that half the people would think it was putting on airs while the other half thought it meant something dirty!
 
During glaucoma surgery in 2005, one eye at a time, my doctor surprised me by correcting my nearsightedness and astigmatism so that I could see 20/20. The surgeries were approximately a year apart. After the first one my brain couldn't process the major differences in vision. I tried removing the right lens of my glasses...didn't work. Since I had to start putting so many drops in my eyes, contacts weren't an option. Finally I substituted brown construction paper for the right eyeglass lens. My frames were tortoise shell colored (brown).

My husband and I went to the mall and supermarket one day and I could tell people were looking at me strangely as they approached me. If I was younger I would've been mortified, but I thought it was kind of funny because I imagined that from a distance it probably looked like I only had one eye (since the glasses frame and construction paper were similar to the color of my skin). Fancying myself a music Diva, I chose the name OneEyedDiva.
 
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My first officer and I were in the crew lounge at Dulles preparing to fly down to Miami. The f/o went to the door and yelled back at me “are you ready, “oldman?” The supervisor heard him and immediately called us both into the office. He reamed out the f/o for being disrespectful and made the f/o apologize to me. I was ok with it, but I told him thank you.

Once on the plane, the f/o apologized again and I told him no worries. I know you were just trying to have a little fun. I need you to drop it and concentrate on the job at hand. It was his turn to fly the plane, but I decided I would fly that day. He had this incident on his mind, so I thought it best to let him take care of the communications.
 
I am old. Not as old as some on here, but old nonetheless. And, I'm a fella.

I remember when I was in my late 40s, there were free chat rooms on the internet back then. I accidently went into an age 50s chat room and the first thing I said was Oh no! I'm not ready for this yet. 50 sounded so much older than 48.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
During glaucoma surgery in 2005, one eye at a time, my doctor surprised me by correcting my nearsightedness and astigmatism so that I could see 20/20. The surgeries were approximately a year apart. After the first one my brain couldn't process the major differences in vision. I tried removing the right lens of my glasses...didn't work. Since I had to start putting so many drops in my eyes, contacts weren't an option. Finally I substituted brown construction paper for the right eyeglass lens. My frames were tortoise shell colored (brown).

My husband and I went to the mall and supermarket one day and I could tell people were looking at me strangely as they approached me. If I was younger I would've been mortified, but I thought it was kind of funny because I imagined that from a distance it probably looked like I only had one eye (since the glasses frame and construction paper were similar to the color of my skin). Fancying myself a music Diva, I chose the name OneEyedDiva.
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So you can see out of both of your eyes? For six years I've thought the reason for your name was blindness in one eye!!!
 
When I was married I might have had to wrestle with temptation to avoid using "cyclops" as her nickname. That skillet can leave quite a lump.
 
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