This is the first (and only) forum I’ve ever joined and being the technological wiz that I am, I didn’t know much about usernames. I put my own name in and it was already taken. So was my daughter’s. The first person’s name that jumped to mind was a lady I met in the UK a couple of years ago.
She was one of those people who will leave an impression on your being even if you only spent 5 minutes in her company. Her name was Belinda, but it was taken too. So I just deleted the last two letters of her name and added an ‘e’ for some reason.
And of course it took, and now I’m stuck with this ridiculous username!