When I retired from the Air Force in 1995, I enrolled at the University of Wyoming. I naively thought my days of dealing with bureaucratic silliness were over. What the Hell did I know?
After days of one-damn-thing-after-another enrollment hoop-jumping with xfer credits, GI Bill bennies and class scheduling, I finally started classes. Then I learned I had to "report" to the computer lab and acquire a campus e-mail name! So, off I went to spend the next couple hours figuring out their computer system. By the time I FINALLY got to the point that asked what name I wanted to use, with all the requisite cautions against actually using my own name, I decided I was just an old, pissed-off, out-of-date dinosaur and tried to pick an appropriately descriptive name.
Hence: MADWAA - Middle-Aged Dude with an Attitude.
During the next three years, whenever an instructor would ask for my e-mail, they would tend to treat me with kid gloves until they figured out the name-- and me-- were all in good fun (usually! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) .
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