Robert Ray:  

In Berkmar High School, I pretty much kept to myself, but I did have my own friends over the time I was there. I think a good number of them came from me being a part of the chess club. I started in the chess club in my sophomore year because I didn't know when and where they were meeting in my freshman year. I think my biggest accomplishment was in my senior year when we went to the National Scholastic Championship in Pulaski, VA. I never though I would go there, but I think I did pretty good winning 4 of 7 games there. As you might notice I abbreviated Virginia above. That comes from me working for mailing businesses for more than half my life. I started full time the day after I graduated. It pays OK, but I know I want to do more like being a published author. Of course one of my biggest genres has to be science fiction. I've always loved that since I was very young. My current interests has got to be computers. I know in high school I was pretty much a geek, and in those days you really were offended by that. Now that's not the case because of the computer age. I proudly say that I'm a geek and don't get offended anymore. When I started working in the computer room at my current employer, I learned a lot about computers. It was more than what I learned in high school which we had those Apple IIe computers. I got to understand how to operate and even build or repair PCs. I think the one thing I remember that my former manager did to a mother (main) board was removing an old chip and soldering a ne...Expand for more