I found out today that Vermont Scrabble player Tom Hogeboom is a very good friend of my sophomore college roommate Lynne Whelden. Lynne even mentions Tim in his online bio. (Lynne is a big name in hiking circles.)
Tim (as he usually goes by) is great people. He is not a standard alphagrammer*, but thousands of obscure (primarily) scientific words lurk deep in the recesses of his cerebrum. If you want to see some cool footage of his hikes out west his Facebook page has them.
I love those small-world moments that defy 'logic.' One of the first scrabblers I met here in Vermont, Barb Kester, told me in conversation once that her father preached at the same Meriden, CT (American Baptist) church as did mine, tenures separated by 40 years or so. Cue the EEHIMNRT.
That explains the confusion. I had posted "Tim" because that's how Lynne referred to him, then somebody corrected me that it was "Tom." So then I edited it to "Tom." No wonder I got confused!
I believe there are actually more moments and more connections among us then we realize. Tim/Tom and Lynne have known one another for 20 years or so, and I've known Lynne for 37 years, but the only reason we discovered that we both know Lynne is because Scrabble happened to come up in a conversation they were having. How many connections don't we learn about because the right conversational cue never comes up?
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I love those small-world moments that defy 'logic.' One of the first scrabblers I met here in Vermont, Barb Kester, told me in conversation once that her father preached at the same Meriden, CT (American Baptist) church as did mine, tenures separated by 40 years or so. Cue the EEHIMNRT.
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I believe there are actually more moments and more connections among us then we realize. Tim/Tom and Lynne have known one another for 20 years or so, and I've known Lynne for 37 years, but the only reason we discovered that we both know Lynne is because Scrabble happened to come up in a conversation they were having. How many connections don't we learn about because the right conversational cue never comes up?
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