Story Behind My OD Username

How did you come up with your Open Diary name?

I am often very indecisive, and since coming up with names is one of the things I have great difficulty in, I decided that I should have a screen name related to it.  The screen name, indecisive, is often taken, so I needed to create a name that is more unique.  Since many computer or internet programs don’t accept punctuation marks in screen names, and I didn’t want to deal with spaces, I thought about cantdecide, then realized that I didn’t want words that were common or easy for other people to think about.  That’s when I thought about the phonics and altered decide to d side.  Putting the parts together, I ended up with cantdside.