Once upon a time I was born. I grew up a pretty sheltered life. I learned how to play chess back about my middle school days, then played more with the nerds in high school. I then worked for a year, went to college for 3 years and got 3 degrees, worked more, then went into specialty electrical apprenticeship for low voltage. I've been out of that for a decade, and teaching it for the past few years, and now I'm also back in apprenticeship to get my big boy electrical license. I also have 10 acres, 16 children, and a redheaded wife. I got back into chess after the wife and I binged the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'. My wife has played me 3 times since. The first time, we both missed some big things. I beat her all 3 times though. I am looking to play more at my skill level, and used to have an account here from before I met her, but couldn't remember the password to, so I started a new account, and here I am today.