Chris McDonald:  

Life Gosh! I have the most wonderful life, even if it's not very dramatic. I am married to an incredibly beautiful and brilliant woman who many of you remember as Connie Bastl, (a.k.a. Triple-B, a.k.a. Big Boobs Bastl) Class of 1985. Connie was my first real crush girlfriend back in 8th grade, and I blame her for the redhead fixation that has plagued me all my life! Q: How do you start an argument with a redheaded woman? A: Say something. At that impressionable age, she imprinted everything I would ever seek in a mate for the rest of my life, and darned if she wasn't eventually the one to marry me and make me the happiest guy on the planet. I am the Fourth Prince of Serendip, and a lucky, lucky man! We have three children (2 girls - hers; 1 young man - mine) and live in a little ranch house in Creve Coeur. All our kids are amazing, funny, healthy, and wonderful. I'm a technical writer. I write software manuals that no one ever reads, ala "Elenor Rigby." I've done stints with Edward Jones, Anheuser-Busch, MasterCard, and other little companies, the names of which you have never heard (including the one currently paying for me to waste time filling out this profile in lieu of chipping away at a looming deadline). Before I married My Beautiful Wife, I spent some time in hell, figuring out who I was and where I was going. Post-divorce from my first wife I was a pretty bitter a-hole. And to those of you that knew me during those years, I can only shrug and promise you that the person I was during that era is a long way from the person I turned out to be. Thanks to a particularly brutal wake-up call from one of those aforementioned ersatz redheads who fell between the relationship bookends of My Beautiful Wife, I managed to climb out of the emotional ash pit in which I had taken residence. I worked two and sometimes three jobs at a time, clawed m...Expand for more