Day 488: Strangers From A Strange Land

We've got a lot of new staff at POLY in the last month. Megan, Chris, and Tim have all left in the last three weeks and so new peeps have been coming in to fill their places. Tim's replacement started this week and he's a really nice guy from....guess where....

....THUNDER BAY!!!

What the hell!!?? What a small freakin' world it is!!!

His name's Keith Buzzie and immediately we were both very curious about our past roots. We've never met before, but Thunder Bay isn't all that big of a city so there *must* be *some* connection to each other that we have. Turns out there isn't! I lived in Forth William. He lived in Port Arthur. I went to Churchill. He went to Hillcrest. I went away to Simon Fraser. He stayed for Lakehead. He's a year older than I am, and our siblings aren't connected either. Hmmm.... We even tried friends of friends or past work places or something, both determined that we MUST be connected somehow, or that our paths have in fact crossed many times but we just have both forgotten it, but no luck. All our ideas and leads all ran straight to dead ends.

So here I am in Ilsan, suburbia of Seoul, South Korea, and I've just met a total and complete stranger from my hometown, many thousands of kilometres away. How crazy is that! ;-)