Why “gruntled”, you say? This came up recently in an email, and this was my reply:

Where did I get my name? Oh, playing with word roots. probably originally while working some anagrams.

You know…

Disjointed ~ jointed
subtropical ~ tropical

So… there’s a ton of them where the root doesn’t really exist. so, “Gruntled” should be the opposite of ‘disgruntled’, as in “peeved” or “gone postal”, but it isn’t a real word, and it also has an internal niggle, “grunt”, that I especially liked at the time that I started using the name all over the internet, because I was doing a lot of grunt work… The anomaly was just too perfect!


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I’m a single dad of two girls, a vegetarian, techie, life-long resident of the suburban sprawl of Atlanta, GA — which will soon consume the whole of the northern half of Georgia, it seems. I study Kendo, read science fiction, am an Anglophile, Whovian from way back, voider of warranties, Buddhist, recovering grammar nazi. Other than that, I’m probably sort of like you. :)