Why Whiskey?

B. and Whiskey in repose

We've gotten a few questions as to why we named the little girl Whiskey. I do a lot of work in aviation, which uses the phonetic alphabet. Instead of saying "A, B, C, etc", you say "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc" It's so that you don't mix up similar sounding letters such as "P", "B", "C", etc. So, the phonetic spelling for W is Whiskey. We just liked that name. But, I've since found that that's a bit of a long story to tell folks, so I just say instead, "we went with what we knew".

Whiskey attacking a defenseless penguin