Kevin Byrnes:  

After High School, I hoped to be a Rock'n'Roll star. What I really did was spend lots of time dragging heavy equipment to dingy bars in bad parts of the Detroit area. I got into the sound engineering side and did that almost every night for 2 years. I also sold musical equipment and had a small recording studio. During this time I also began my love affair with computers. I met my first wife in 1984 and our first child was born in 1986. When she became pregnant with our second child in 1988 I had to get a 'real job'. I ended up with Blockbuster as a store manager. I did that for 10 years. Our third child was born in 1994. In 1998, I got a chance to get paid to play with computers for a living. I joined a small medical software company in Mt Clemens, and helped them through Y2K. Remember how scared some people were ? By late 1999, my marriage was ending, and I was ready to get out of the cold, damp, Michigan winters. I floated my resume and was immediately offered a job in Tempe, AZ at twice the money I was making in Michigan. I moved here in May 2000, and my 3 kids joined me in August. My oldest was none too happy with the heat, but the other 2 did fairly well. To fill time while waiting for my kids to arrive, I began playing Euchre on Yahoo. One night, a nice lady sat down as my partner, and we began to chat. Turns out she was from Battle Creek. Long story short, we began a long distance romance that culminated with our marriage in 2002. We now live in Anthem, a community about 20 miles north of Phoenix, with great desert views all around. Shannon is my oldest, she graduated from ASU this year with honors. Meghan is ...Expand for more