Skype knows me as walkingpencil. There is a story behind that name as well. Back in my Civil Service days, working in the state pension arm of the Department for Work and Pensions, a little old lady rang in with some query or other. According to the officer who spoke to her, she referred to us as the Department for Walking Pencils, and a better description I never heard.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
