I better introduce myself

[virre]

... as I acctually replied to a thread.

I am a so far 32-year old dude from Stockholm, Sweden. In my professional life I work as a junior webbdeveloper for a corporation in the media industry. Outside of that I been a gamer for a long time, more or less from birth. I am active on boardgamegeek (it was from there I was linked here. Oh and my username there and here is the same. It is also one of the names in my passport).

There always been people around me that enjoyed Go, but I never really got into it. I never really thought I liked abstract games, I played some from time to time (one tme with an ex we played a hundred games of chess I lost, then I won two and she stopped playing with me. But that was because rural Sweden have no gamers). On the last wednesday in June a friend showed me Go and I decided to give it a chance. I felt a bit split about it as the total loss (awaited, though my friend two is a relative beginner) came. But during the night and morning after I could not stop thinking about the game. So then reading up, Senseis Libary, SmartGo Kifu, Gobans and books was ordered. I was hooked, and after that I played or read or studied go each day. Still very much a bad newbie.

I have some other intrests too except gaming and the computer stuff that my work entail. Photography, Litterature, Music (I do own a guitar and a mandolin, I am not good at playing either) and supporting Hammarby in all sports, mostly by beeing in the stands and singing for the team, there is some others too but it goes in periods.

Also I am an active member in the local level of the Swedish branch of the IOGT temperance movment. (So I am sober) and also studied buddha dharma and, again in periods, take part in the local sangha in the style of Thich Nhat Hanh

[EdLee]

Welcome.

[goTony]

Welcome!

You sound like an interesting person. Best of luck and study with GO!

[virre]

No longer a Junior Webbdeveloper, or well today I am, on Monday I am not and from the 28th I work for another company as a just Webbdeveloper. Ah income raises

[EdLee]

Congrats.

[virre]

And then life keeps happening, and due to life I got a bit of focus on the game. Games are not as important when you get to know you have to move in a month, ah the joys of the housing market in this town where half of us live in an illegal sublet. Well not me anymore I soon am to move into my fully own legal apartment which I bought mostly with the banks money, and my family because I failed and not saved up.

Saddly the stress of that made me not play, and considering how little I advanced in the game, I guess I am back to a total newbie from the almost new player I was back then.