In any case, trotw00d is derived from Trotwood from the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It’s the name given to David by his aunt, Betsey Trotwood, after she warmed to him (she was hoping for a niece). It’s also the name of a city in Ohio, but I’ve never been there.
It was also the name of my cat. I use the past tense because he had to be put down. The story was my first node here on Everything2. I’m still quite upset about it, but in a strange sort of way. In the space of less than a week, I witnessed both the birth of my son and the death of my cat. The latter had the greater emotional impact. A cat has no business doing that. Yeah, I’m still angry about it. Or just hurt.
I don’t know why other people use E2. As you can see from my above-noted mission drive, my reason for using it is selfish: I’d like to learn to write poetry. I’m grateful for nodes like How to write poetry and the breakdowns of the poems in the Do not go gentle into that good night and Dulce et Decorum Est nodes. Actually I’d like to learn to understand poetry. I take things too literally.
I have an update: I am busy writing a poem these days, my first as an adult. I’m finding it very difficult, but I’m enjoying it. I’m surprised that there are so many more words that travel through your head when you write a poem than there are when you write prose. I was hoping to make it my 25th writeup, but I'm still working on it only every now and then. I have a feeling that if I really were inclined to be a poet, I wouldn't be able to stop working on it.
In the meantime I have a few hockey nodes in me. Hockey helps me understand things better. Just not poetry.
I've written a couple of hockey writeups lately, and one thing I've noticed is how few hockey players have been noded. I think I'll make it a bit of a goal, then, to node all the players in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I've already got a writeup for Larry Robinson in the works!
Hockey Hall of Fame Members: Players
Legend: hardlinked, noded; bold, mine; italicized, in progress. (Even this list is a work in progress.)
Forwards and Defensemen: Sid Abel, Jack Adams, Syl Apps, George Armstrong, Ace Bailey, Dan Bain, Hobey Baker, Bill Barber, Marty Barry, Andy Bathgate, Bobby Bauer, Jean Beliveau, Doug Bentley, Max Bentley, Toe Blake, Leo Boivin, Dickie Boon, Mike Bossy, Butch Bouchard, Frank Boucher, George Boucher, Russell Bowie, Punch Broadbent, John Bucyk, Billy Burch, Harry Cameron, King Clancy, Dit Clapper, Bobby Clarke, Sprague Cleghorn, Neil Colville, Charlie Conacher, Lionel Conacher, Bill Cook, Fred Cook, Art Coulter, Yvan Cournoyer, Bill Cowley, Rusty Crawford, Jack Darragh, Scotty Davidson, Hap Day, Alex Delvecchio, Cy Denneny, Marcel Dionne, Gord Drillon, Graham Drinkwater, Woody Dumart, Tommy Dunderdale, Red Dutton, Babe Dye, Phil Esposito, Arthur Farrell, Fern Flaman, Frank Foyston, Frank Fredrickson, Bill Gadsby, Bob Gainey, Herb Gardiner, Jimmy Gardner, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Eddie Gerard, Rod Gilbert, Billy Gilmour, Moose Goheen, Ebbie Goodfellow, Mike Grant, Shorty Green, Wayne Gretzky, Si Griffis, Joe Hall, Doug Harvey, George Hay, Bryan Hextall, Tom Hooper, Red Horner, Tim Horton, Gordie Howe, Syd Howe, Harry Howell, Bobby Hull, Harry Hyland, Dick Irvin, Busher Jackson, Ching Johnson, Moose Johnson, Tom Johnson, Aurel Joliat, Duke Keats, Red Kelly, Ted Kennedy, Dave Keon, Elmer Lach, Guy Lafleur, Newsy Lalonde, Jacques Laperriere, Guy Lapointe, Edgar Laprade, Jack Laviolette, Jacques Lemaire, Mario Lemieux, Herbie Lewis, Ted Lindsay, Mickey MacKay, Frank Mahovlich, Joe Malone, Sylvio Mantha, Jack Marshall, Fred Maxwell, Lanny McDonald, Frank McGee, Billy McGimsie, George McNamara, Stan Mikita, Dickie Moore, Howie Morenz, Bill Mosienko, Frank Nighbor, Reg Noble, Buddy O'Connor, Harry Oliver, Bert Olmstead, Bobby Orr, Brad Park, Lester Patrick, Lynn Patrick, Gilbert Perreault, Tommy Phillips, Pierre Pilote, Didier Pitre, Denis Potvin, Babe Pratt, Joe Primeau, Marcel Pronovost, Bob Pulford, Harvey Pulford, Bill Quackenbush, Frank Rankin, Jean Ratelle, Ken Reardon, Henri Richard, Maurice Richard, George Richardson, Gordon Roberts, Larry Robinson, Art Ross, Blair Russell, Ernie Russell, Jack Ruttan, Borje Salming, Serge Savard, Fred Scanlan, Milt Schmidt, Sweeney Schriner, Earl Seibert, Oliver Seibert, Eddie Shore, Steve Shutt, Babe Siebert, Joe Simpson, Darryl Sittler, Alf Smith, Clint Smith, Hooley Smith, Tommy Smith, Allan Stanley, Barney Stanley, Black Jack Stewart, Nels Stewart, Bruce Stuart, Hod Stuart, Cyclone Taylor, Harry Trihey, Norm Ullman, Jack Walker, Marty Walsh, Harry E. Watson, Harry P. Watson, Cooney Weiland, Harry Westwick, Fredrick Whitcroft, Gord Wilson.
Goalies: Clint Benedict, Johnny Bower, Frank Brimsek, Turk Broda, Gerry Cheevers, Alex Connell, Ken Dryden, Bill Durnan, Tony Esposito, Chuck Gardiner, Eddie Giacomin, George Hainsworth, Glenn Hall, Riley Hern, Hap Holmes, Bouse Hutton, Hughie Lehman, Percy LeSueur, Harry Lumley, Paddy Moran, Bernie Parent, Jacques Plante, Chuck Rayner, Terry Sawchuck, Billy Smith, Tiny Thompson, Vladislav Tretiak, Georges Vezina, Gump Worsley, Roy Worters.
Some hockey fans have /msged me with their favorite teams: etouffee, Detroit Red Wings; Chris-O, Phoenix Coyotes; briglass, St. Louis Blues; allseeingeye, Ottawa Senators. My team is the Leafs. I'd love to hear what yours is!