Morning, All.
GMornin!
Sup, Shaun... hope I spelled that right. Now you know why I stick with 'YellowStar'. Plus Shaun just isn't as funny. lol.
The CI banter used to keep a name in the profile. I found that very helpful for just such an occasion. Like who woulda know Bret only had one T... times are tuff.
Yeah, my dad's a fan of James Garner so I was named for Bret Maverick - hence the single T.
We need a cross reference of real names. Older I get, the harder it is to remember.
Of course, around here if you just call everybody Dave the odds are in your favor.
Until Tony may, or may not update a change for that, I just save it in location... Steve from GA. Since I know there is a couple Steve's out there. Anywho... morning Maverick.
That was my nickname through adolescence. Then Top Gun came out and it about drove me nuts explaining to people that the nickname preceded the movie by a couple of decades. I stopped embracing the nick and became Raz.
So, Mav then. We can learn the cool high five thing later. 
Deja vu all fucking over again. I knew I shouldn't have explained why my name has only one T.
Oh okay poopie pants. But if it's gonna be Raz, I'm gonna need an explanation.
Raz is short for Razgueado or Raz Gueado. Start with the understanding that I'm a guitar player. Now, think about any cheesy b-movie western that is set in - sorry, AzDave - a dusty Mexican border town. The musical accompaniment will feature a guitar, and you'll hear this rapid-strumming motif done by brushing the strings with each finger of the right hand in rapid succession. That strum is called a 'rasgueado'.
It actually has nothing to do with Mexico or dusty border towns. It's a Flamenco guitar technique, which is to say, it's Gypsy (Romani) music. But, whatever. It's a rasgueado. When I got my first Internet account in 1989, I changed the s to a z and became Raz Gueado.
