After reading through this,
yeah, I think I'm going to like it here.
anyway, I go by GrumpyBadger or some form of that, on most forums. Be they Star Wars, my reenactment stuff, or pretty much anything, I like to stick with this for the most part.
Basically, I got it when a couple friends and I were talking, over drinks about what our animal totems could or would be. It actually started out as a 400 level anthro class assignment for me, and I was asking a friend who is Navajo. He in his typical joking manner asked us what we thought ours would be first, before going into his culture's lore and how they could be chosen, if they were at all.
At first, I told him my two would have to be either a cat, like a mountain lion (because I volunteered helping tag these animals for a while) or a bear because of certain tendencies I have that I'll explain in detail a bit further.
Daniel (my Navajo buddy) laughed and liked how I had picked bear from the start. All of us had fun with this, but then one of my other friends, whose nickname is Stubbs or as we like to call him "Stubbsie" because of his missing finger from an offroad accident, blurted out "a bear?!? c'mon, a bear?!? really? for Pat?! No... No... y'all ain't creative enough. He's a * grumpy * badger!!"
and yes, the rated G version of that, I must admit has stuck with me ever since.
I went to university, after being in the US Coast Guard and such, and so I was automatically the "old man" in the dorm at the ripe old age of 28... yeah, I know how "Pappy" Boyington felt now! And in that, I am a wee bit cynical, and I don't make close friends easily, even when they may think we are. These four guys are some of my closest friends now, and they became such rather quickly. I actually hope to fly with them soon on "Birds of Steel" on XBox360 starting this November, and hopefully we can get a squadron of sorts (1941's theme song playing in my head now because of the shenanigans) flying... hopefully!
but yeah, I'm basically a grumpy old badger apparently on first impressions and then "Pat, you're like a tattoo. You contemplate about it, you design it, you find someone you trust to permanently ink it on you. Then you get it. And it hurts like a *, but when it's all said and done, you at least enjoy the memories and adventures getting it" after people get to know me...
yeah, still don't know if that was a compliment or not, but coming from one of my other "good ol'boys" I'll take it such gladly.
also, if y'all are ever on any XBox360 related forums, like Birds of Steel has at Gaijin, I usually go by my Xbox tag: CudaFish1966. That one is because I absolutely love the 1966 Barracuda Forumla S, and I play Forza a lot.
anyway
fair winds and following seas
pat