My New Name -- Revealed!

The wedding date is quickly approaching, and with it the pending name change on my part.

Some of my ex-workers took a big interest in this, and made a game of it. Like all such things, the fervor had died away. Occasionally the subject will come up again, but nothing regular.

So, it is with much fan fare, that I finally reveal the name...

Ricard K! Zootlanter

Pronounced:

RIC-ard (like Jean Luc Picard)
k-BANG (in UNIX land, the "!" symbol is pronounced BANG)
ZOOT-lan-ter

In all reality, I never had the intention of using this name, but I would joke with Traci about it.

I, however, honestly plan to change my name. For 2 main reasons:

1) I LOATHE being named after my (insert expletive) father!
2) Even if I liked my father, I don't like being named after somebody. I am my own person, not a clone of someone else. Why then should I have their name?

To accomplish this, I am only changing my middle name, thus enabling me to drop that stupid "II" off the end of my name. My new middle name will be:

Kohl

My older brother (never mentioned here yet) can keep the name and the "Jr." designation he has if he wants, but I'm getting rid of that name.

In a later post, I will detail what I have to go through to complete this name change process, but suffice to say, it's not the same process a woman goes through when she gets married... I have to petition the court, have a hearing, fingerprints, etc...

More on this later.