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[roadrunnertwice]

Hmm, I thought I'd have another ten days to decide on a username.

Which is to say, HUZZAH, I am roadrunnertwice on Dreamwidth!

I had it narrowed down to this and Detour Boy*—it was that thing where I'd have been perfectly happy with either, but managed to work myself into a frenzy trying to decide which was best. (This happens reliably, by the way, and is reason six why I detest shopping.) On the one hand, Detour Boy is shorter, and zizz was right about it having cool connotations of exploration and discovery and the road less traveled. Plus it's not tied to a particular cultural reference, and it can be abbreviated to "db" for bonus musical reference fun.

But I ended up going with Roadrunner Twice for its non-obvious personal meanings. I like how it's built: a past embarrassment repurposed by mixing it with other things I've discovered in the meantime. I like how it's more of an evolution than a rebirth. I like how it's also kind of about being lost (in a roundabout way—how else), but focuses more on the joy of motion and the freedom of aimlessness. Plus, it's already somewhat, uh, road-tested, whereas Detour Boy was new enough to be something of a gamble.

And you know, one of my favorite writers named a thing after that song, which makes it feel like I'm part of some obscure tradition. And I like that, too. I think this one's a keeper.


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* Rotcedar is already sort of claimed for a different project; Sun Pinion wasn't, but I think it might be now; Shortcuts We Know, well, I do love "Where They Walk Over St. Therese," but it's maybe a little too emo to name oneself after. I do like Motor Sprite still... maybe I'll do something else with it? And here I thought my problem was going to be not enough names that I liked.

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I haven't imported my journal yet, and I'm not going to disable comments in the LJ for... well, for a long-ass while? I'll probably save it until we can see the other side of open beta? I think. Eventually, I'm going to make LJ into the secondary journal, with full entries here and comments over at Dreamwidth. For now, I'll mostly be playing around; I'll probably get a lot more serious about it once they get the secure cross-site flist code up and running.

But I like it here. There's sawdust everywhere and the sound of power drills, but it feels kind of homey already.

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[roadrunnertwice]

You make a compelling case! I'll supply the Tri-Flo and orange de-greaser and bearings-in-a-bottle and cheap lager.