Patience is a Virtue
I’ve used “accroya” in email addresses, video games, forums, etc, since the 1980’s. In the mid-1990’s, I had the domain accroya.com for a couple years but never really used it and let it expire.
Then a few years later I was shocked to find out that some frigging SQUATTER registered MY WORD and accroya.com was lost.
So began the wait.
Yep, that’s me.
I set a reminder on my computer to check accroya.com every year just after the squatter’s registration was set to expire. Finally in 2013, I was surprised to see accroya.com was free and clear, and I snatched it back up.
The prodigal son has returned to its creator.
Accroya.com is back where it belongs.
So what does “accroya” mean, anyway? It doesn’t mean anything! It’s just a word I made up when I was 14 years old.
A friend of mine showed me a drawing of a guitar he designed. So I copied the idea and designed my own bass guitar. I wanted something that sounded like “Destroyer” so I made up “accroya.”
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s when choosing online names required a little creativity, I found that my old word “accroya” was never used, thus a good choice. So “accroya” became my de facto user name (It was either that, or some weird composer name like Hovhaness or Scriabin – or sometimes the Captain Kirk “Indian” name of Kirock).
But a funny thing happened on the way back to rescuing accroya.com… A few years ago, I wanted to create a blog for the sole purpose of ranting about random stuff. Accroya.com was stolen taken, so I had to come up with something else. Because my rants were so controversial, I decided to keep the blog anonymous. That website is now hugely successful, and still anonymous (so I won’t divulge the name just yet).
So now, with accroya.com safely back home, I can blog again without anonymity under my beloved domain.
Welcome to my site, and welcome to my word.
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