Sunday, November 19, 2023

feast and famine...

 At lunch time today my GPF and I enjoyed the annual Thanksgiving dinner prepared by the members of the Korean congregation of our church.  It was delicious as usual.  It is hosted by the Korean congregation in honor of the American soldiers who served in the Korean war.  Not too many of them left these days, but there were a few in attendance today.  The meal consisted of all the typical Thanksgiving fare including turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and salad plus bulgogi, kimchi, sticky rice, noodle salad (my favorite) and a grand assortment of desserts provided by the English speaking congregation.  Needless to say we did not go away hungry.  That was the feast part of the day.  This evening, after a very light supper, my GPF and I decided to play a game of scrabble.  He has learned to play from me so I wish I could take a little credit for his win tonight, but alas he has learned much too well.  He started the game by using all of his tiles for his first word, earning him fifty extra points then went on to score over fifty points with each of his  next two words.  At the end of three turns he had 160 points to my 58.  I knew I was in trouble when all I seemed to be able to draw were tiles worth one point each.  That's the famine in my title.  The final score was 356 to 289.  we ran out of tiles before I could complete my comeback.  My only teeny bit of satisfaction is that he was stuck with his 'Q' at the end of the game.  

A side note here, if you are scrabble players, there is a nifty program you can download on your phone called 'Scrabble Word Checker.'  It makes looking up words very quick and easy.  

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