Explaining my URL

This is a bit of a random post, but I just realized I've never explained why my URL is "trickyjack".

I've mentioned before that my full name is Patricia Jacqueline. With a name like that, as you might imagine, there are a lot of possible nicknames. When I was little my mother favored calling me by a shortened version of my middle name (Jackie — she still calls me that, though I've asked her not to). My dad, on the other hand, liked to call me nicknames based off my first name (I suspect he did so as a way of playfully annoying my mother). For a while he would call me Tricia or Tricie — the latter of which sounds something like "tricky". I had trouble with the "sh" sound when I was little, so when I tried to pronounce my nickname it sounded like I was saying the word "tricky". My dad thought that was very funny and began calling me Tricky as well. It stuck for a while until I went off to school and my mother told my dad to stop calling me Tricky because it was a silly nickname and I'd get teased for having it.

Dad still calls me Tricky sometimes, when my mother isn't around.