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John,
Instead of gluing back together the watch that I currently wear on a regular basis, my dad
took the strap that wasn’t broken off my spare watch last Wednesday (the 7th) hence the
broken strap on the one of my two watches was the one that has the holes. Anyway, once off my
spare watch he then put the strap on my regular watch and that was why you saw me wearing a
watch when you first got here the next day instead of carrying around a broken one. I remember
he said quote “good as new” as soon as he handed me the watch once he had put the other strap on
it last Wednesday, obviously I guess he wasn’t expecting it not to hold while hoping that he did
a good job himself. It was the Sears in Willowbrook Mall where they had a strap for my spare
watch and also where my dad found that spare strap. My dad had a hard time trying to fit the
spare strap on my regular watch and thought that it would be better if he took it to one of the
watch stores to be put on. He put it in his pocket and took it with him when he went to work
yesterday, he drove over to Semiahmoo Mall before coming home after work and after dropping off
everybody in his carpool. He was able to get the strap put on at the battery place in the mall,
so I then thought that I’d have a good spare watch incase something ever happens again until
today when I took a look at the other watch and noticed that they put the strap on the wrong
way. My dad said that he’ll drop it off at the same battery place next time he’s in the area. He
also got when he was at the battery place a new laser pointer because the thing that holds the
battery in on the one that Dave at work gave him a while back wouldn’t hold the battery in
anymore. You asked me why I prefer digital watches to clock (called “analog”) ones,
because they’re easier for me to read. And I don’t think they make digital watches that have
black numbers on a white background.
Before meeting my dad in the South Point parking lot two days ago, my mom went into Canadian
Tire to look for some liner for her wire hanging baskets, they didn’t have exactly what she was
looking for so my dad picked her up outside Canadian Tire. They left my mom’s Honda in the
parking lot at South Point and they drove first to the West Coast Gardens on 16th Avenue just
East of Highway 99 where they found the type of liner that my mom was looking for. Also when
they were there, one of the guys who works there told my dad about one thing that the koi pond
fish like to have for a treat. First cut an orange in half, push the rind open on one half so
that all the juicy stuff is sticking out, and then throw it in the pond. The guy said that the
koi fish really like that. After the West Coast Gardens my parents then drove to Willowbrook
Mall. They looked in the Bay first, but they didn’t have the right strap so after that they then
went into Sears. After Sears, they spent the rest of the afternoon at the Cascades Casino until
it was time for them to drive back to South Point and pick up my mom’s Honda. Speaking about
casinos BTW, my dad got a coupon in the mail last Monday (on the 5th) for the Starlight
Casino. So my mom was teasing him that he wanted to go use it right away.
You remember that my dad had to go to the dentist to have a temporary crown put in, he goes
back on the 20th of this month to have his permanent crown put in. His dentist is the same one I
go to, Dr. Lee in Fleetwood. Dr. Lee is the man and his wife is Dr. Huang. Now on my dad’s way
to the dentist, he had to stop by Raynor’s office to sign a form that has to do with our plan.
When my dad was there, he told Raynor about what happened on his way over to Raynor’s office
after my dad left his work in Burnaby...He was attacked by a cigarette, this happened on 88th
Avenue not long before my dad turned onto King George Highway. The guy in the car in front of my
dad was smoking a cigarette while driving his car, he threw his cigarette out the window when he
had finished it and it landed on the hood of my dad’s Subaru. He could then smell cigarette
smoke inside his car so he gave the guy a big honk with his horn to show him that he was
annoyed. My dad had to then pull over and remove the cigarette from the car’s vent.
• You were surprised that I could get the first scanned image back to its original
colours before I scanned it. Today at the same following location, you can download the “before
and after” images:
photo1a.bmp - The way the image looked when I first scanned it. I also had a blue sweatshirt at
one time BTW that looked almost the same as the way my green one turned out in this image, and
the shade of blue this sweatshirt I’m referring to wasn’t Indigo.
photo1b.bmp - How the image looked after I went about the instructions that I wrote out for you
two messages ago.
http://www.stuntsillusion.com/download/tempfile1.zip
• The truck in the second scanned image wasn’t my grandpa’s truck, it belonged to a man who
he and his wife were staying with my grandparents’ next door neighbours at that time. This was
when my grandparents lived in their house in Mission before they moved over to their apartment
in Abbotsford. We can’t remember whether the guy who drove the truck was their neighbours’ son
or if his wife was the neighbours’ niece. BTW, my
grandparents stored their lawn furniture and gardening equipment underneath their patio when
they lived at this house just like you do. You also couldn’t stand up straight underneath their
patio which is also the same at your place. At that time, Mac’s computer was a 386 which he ran
Windows 3.1 on. As soon as the picture was developed of me, him, and my grandpa standing in
front of the truck, I scanned it in for Mac and he used it as his Windows desktop background.
I can’t remember whether or not I touched that spider in the third image, but I do remember
one time the year before when we were at the Vancouver Aquarium I got to touch a small snake.
And this wasn’t one of the big snakes that could squeeze you to death, this was one of the few
smaller ones that isn’t poisonous.
I’m glad that you were able to learn on your own what the “Draw Opaque” button does in
Windows Paint, you didn’t know what it did at first. And I remember that I was going to E-mail
you about it, but you learned what it does before I could do so. I also remember at one point
around that same time you tried to insert an emoticon into one of the messages you were gunna
send me by pasting one of the URLs from my Stunts Illusion site, you asked me why you couldn’t
do it because once you pasted the URL you couldn’t find a button to insert the smilie into your
message. See the images at the bottom of this message.
Here are some more points from the last while that I’ve been holding on to because I haven’t
yet got around to writing about these:
• Monday Jan.21,2008: When you saw me on this date I remember you told me about
how nobody has a stress free life, especially Carol who I told you a few times in previous
messages about how she has a lot of stress in her life. She grew up on the edge of abuse, her
dad abused Carol when she was growing up and he especially abused Carol’s brother who later
committed suicide. And more recently when you and I talked two days ago about the most recent
swarming at a skytrain station, you said you thought that maybe only two of those six girls that
they let go didn’t have a good upbringing while the others just caught on even if they did have
good parents. And then you talked about how bad upbringings don’t always come from bad parents,
in some cases kids who have good parents like you thought of for example might be somewhere
around four of those six suspects while in other cases kids whose parents drink the whole time
while these kids are growing up might grow up to be nice people. Now Carol would be an example
of this type of upbringing, she grew up at the edge of abuse after which you know she turned
out to be a nice person.
• Thursday Jan.24,2008: You read to me in the paper when you were here on this date that
Vancouver city staff rejected a proposed homeless shelter at the former Storyeum building in
favour of a fitness centre. I think the homeless shelter would make more sense than building
either the fitness centre or the bowling alley. At least I know that the fitness centre would be
my least preferred of the three, I bowled when I was in High School but the school bowling team
was cancelled a few months after I joined because the teacher who was in charge of the bowling
team got sick. The Sandcastle Lanes which is right where Boston Pizza is was where I bowled
then, and we drove by there on our way to pick up Mac when me, you, and my dad took him out for
his birthday dinner a month ago. And can you believe this guy when he says that “the design,
zoning, and built form condition of the premises would be prohibitive challenges to implementing
the uses of a homeless shelter or a bowling alley.”
• Friday Mar.14,2008: Remember when you and I were driving on 152nd Street on our way to Port
Coquitlam on this date, we passed the 375 bus. That’s the number for the route that connects
White Rock Centre with Guildford Mall. And then after we came back to Surrey later on the same
day, where I saw those buses parked on 104th Avenue while we drove around the block trying to
find the turn into White Spot is where we catch the 375 route.
• When you and I were sitting in White Spot having lunch the same day of the above point, I
remember you talked about taking your mom over to Victoria one day and having lunch over there.
Were you talking just a daytrip instead of overnight? If just a daytrip, do you plan to drive
into Victoria or take the bus after you get off the ferry? I’ll tell you that on the same trip I
did to Victoria in February of 2002 with my dad and my friend, Mac, and on the same trip when
the third of the three scanned
photos was taken, we took a double-decker transit
bus into Victoria once we got off the ferry. The double-decker we got on was crowded, I also
don’t like the double-decker bus because I’d rather not sit on the top deck or if I sit on the
bottom the stairs block my view out the front window. I therefore prefer those articulated buses
that I talked about a few times in previous messages. We ended up taking a taxi cab back to the
ferry at the end of our trip in February 2002 even though it cost an extra $50 or $60 to take
the cab.
• I remember you told me after you read the
message I sent you on Sunday Mar.16,2008
you read the part where I said about all the computers in my row got restarted as often as every
couple days when I was in my computer class at school and I didn’t know if they were just blaming
me every time that happened when all the kids in my row along with the teacher would say
“Neil kicked the box” or if the switch to control all the computers for that entire row really
was at the end where I sat right where my foot could easily hit it. And if the switch wasn’t
where I could kick it, I’m also not sure if they were just joking every time it happened or if
they were blaming me on purpose.
• Sometime within the last few weeks my dad told us that the transit police are at the
next table (table next to the one which my dad sits at) most days when my dad’s having
coffee in the cafeteria at his work because the Edmonds skytrain station is right outside where
he works and the cafeteria inside the building where my dad works is a public cafeteria.
ALL OF THESE NEXT POINTS HAAPPENED SOMETIME WITHIN THE LAST WHILE AND I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN
THEY HAPPENED OR WHICH ORDER THEY OCCURRED IN.
• At one time within the last while, you tried to open the deck doors in our family room from
the wrong side. The side that you tried to open will only open when the other side’s already
open and we had these doors installed a few years after we moved into the house that we’re in
now because the doors that were there before them leaked. The doors we had that leaked opened
from the opposite side from the doors we have now being the side that you tried to open. We had
them switch it when we got the new doors installed because the heat vent in the floor’s right in
front of where the old door opened.
• I remember you told me a while back about some person you knew, I forget who it was though,
who didn’t like his or her food to touch each other and then you told him/her that it shouldn’t
matter because the food still touches each other once it’s in your stomach. I’ll let you know
that both of Carol’s daughters were similar, neither of them liked their food to touch each
other when it was on their plates. I’m okay with my food touching each other when it’s on my
plate though I told you previously that I like my pineapple in a separate dish
when I'm having ham and pineapple or the cranberries in a separate dish when I have them with
turkey, and also I said these few things in previous E-mails:
Tuesday Feb.5,2008:
> When you saw me two weeks ago on Monday Jan.21,2008 (the day I had my onion rings at
Dairy Queen),
> you said that you already knew I probably wouldn’t like gravy and that you thought I don’t
like soup. It is
> true that I’m not a big soup-eater though I have the MR. NOODLES brand noodle cups for
my lunch some
> days...And whenever I have one of these noodle cups or any kind of soup, I don’t eat the
liquid. Again, I’m
> not a big soup-eater. If I’m having Chicken Noodle soup or Alphabet soup for example, I stop
eating as soon
> as the chicken’s gone in the Chicken Noodle soup or as soon as all the letters are gone
in the Alphabet
> soup and again I don’t eat or drink the liquid...
Tuesday Feb.26,2008:
> The evenings when I do have milk with my Honey Nut
Cheerio Mix, I drink the milk separately in a
> glass and instead of pouring it on top of the cheerio mix. Same thing when I use to drink milk
with
> cereal at breakfast, I just liked the cereal plain.
• I also remember you reading that another one of my goals is to make it through my life
without riding in any vehicle that has a mid-engine. And I also want to make it through life
without riding in any vehicle that had a rear engines, I’d rather stick to front engines my
whole life. My dad said that mid-engines are mostly used in fancy sports cars and I can’t
remember whether it was my dad or you who told me that some of the older Volkswagen Beetles have
rear engines.
• And the most recent of them all, Izzy’s first collar did have a bell to start
with but it drove us nuts so we ended up taking off the bell.
• BTW, you creating a separate folder in Microsoft Outlook for my messages sounds great. I
should do the same thing in my Outlook, make a separate folder and group together the messages
that I send you with the ones that you send me.
And now my thoughts about news stories in the present:
• My mom told me that the girl who was swarmed at the Nanaimo skytrain station is
now back at work after what happened. She rode in with a friend on the skytrain on her first day
back at work and then her sister picked her up and drove her home when she got off work later
that same day and we don’t know how she’s been getting to and from work since that day.
• If Carol heard about the Pit Bull who attacked that eleven year old boy, wouldn’t it be
interesting if she could know that David who worked on your trench is friends with the guy who
used the bat and that the other guy, Clifford, lives only one block away from Cedar Hills
elementary where the boy was attacked. And that elementary school isn’t far from where we use to
live.
• You read me in the paper when you were hear two days ago the story about the two spider
monkeys at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in Aldergrove, one was found lying dead while the other one
was nowhere to be found and was presumed to have been stolen during an overnight break-in. Bolt
cutters were used to cut a hole through the chainlink fence surrounding the monkeys' outdoor
enclosure. Corporal Peter Thiessen said the motive for the break-in is unclear, but speculated
the 20-pound female monkey may have been stolen as a pet or to be sold on the black market.
Spider monkeys are worth about $5,000 each. They say that if you see the one that was stolen,
you should call the zoo and not approach her because she has very sharp teeth and could attack
because she is traumatized. I miss sharing newspaper stories with Carol.
• You also read to me about the Burma cyclone. My mom told me that when she watched this
story on this TV news, she saw that they figure there might be as many as 100,000 people dead
and that the military-style government won’t allow foreign aid workers into the country.
• And did you hear yet about the Ontario woman who was fired from Tim Hortons for giving a
Timbit to a kid? The Timmy’s location she was fired from is in “London, Ontario” BTW which is
only about a 20 minute drive from the farm where my auntie Ann and uncle Les live. The manager
who fired her rehired her, but she herself (the lady who gave the kid a Timbit) has
chosen to work at another Tim Hortons in London.
My meals and snacks for the last few days:
• Wednesday May 7,2008: My dad brought home some raspberries which I had in a
bowl with brown sugar for my dessert after supper on this date. I remember after I told you that
I like raspberries even though strawberries are my preference, you said that raspberries are
your preference. Again, I guess this would be one of the few scenarios in which your
preference is not the same as the majority’s preference while my preference is the same
as the majority who prefer strawberries to raspberries.
Thursday May 8,2008 - evening snack: I had some Bugles with a can of “ice UP” to drink, I
would’ve had Lime Crush to drink if I didn’t have to spend an hour on the toilet before going to
bed the evening before (on Wednesday evening) when I had a really messy poop. I had poop
all the way down my leg, I spent that hour in the bathroom first having the poop and then
cleaning up everything. I only got about four hours of sleep in total for that night, I didn’t
fall asleep until 3:30AM and then I was awake since just before 8. I didn’t fall asleep until
2:30AM the next night (Thursday night/Friday morning), and then I got six, seven, or
eight hours of sleep once I did fall asleep. I managed to fall asleep just after 1AM last night
and then I had such a good sleep that I couldn’t get out of bed until a quarter after
noon (12:15 PM). And you noticed a bit of poop on my foot after I came out of the bathroom
when you were here two days ago, I had to then go back into the bathroom and wash it off.
Nothing like this has ever happened when Carol use to come here, this is the first time anything
like this has ever happened while I’m with a worker. I plan to have some of the Old Dutch Rip-L
potato chips that I like with Nalley brand "Bacon & Onion" dip for my evening snack tonight, I
hope I feel up to having the other bottle of Lime Crush.
• Saturday May 10,2008 - afternoon snack: I tired a pack of the peanut butter Thinsations
"Thin Crisps" for my afternoon snack today. I noticed that the peanut butter ones come in green
packaging and I told you in
the last message
that these ones are shaped like peanuts.
Miscellaneous points:
• We are running out of places to put my male betas that are getting big, I have
more male betas than the amount our barracks can hold so my dad thought about putting some of
them in small jars. All of the other betas that you saw are still in the tanks and not yet in
barracks BTW are either female or not big enough to be separated.
• I thought I had made my own decision about the one image we scanned two days ago, I thought
myself at first that the darker one looked better. I showed my mom the image after you left and
just like you she said that she liked the brighter one better, I deleted the dark one and we’ll
crop the bright one when we get to that image. Also when we were scanning that day, you were
wondering if I or someone else made that lobster trap you found that has a little red lobster
inside it. I asked my mom and she told me that they got it in Newfoundland when she and my dad
drove across Canada. And that was my neighbour, Gary, who you saw working in his garage when we
were on the computer two days ago, now you know which house is Gary’s.
• My mom found two surprises yesterday, she found a ping pong ball on our banana stand in the
kitchen and she found another ball in the cat’s tail on our fireplace mantel in the family
room.
• My mom read in Save-On’s flyer yesterday that they have their SPF 50 Coppertone spray
lotion on sale this week, I hope to go with her to the South Point store this Tuesday afternoon
and get some of that and also some frosting that my mom needs to make the confetti Angel food
cake. This won’t be an Angel food cake that we’ll be having in a bowl with strawberries and
whipping cream, this time we’ll be having it on plates. And instead of whipping cream, my mom
will frost the outside of the cake and then put on coloured sprinkles. And my dad hasn’t talked
to my grandparents yet, but which of the days are good for you to have Chinese dinner?
Sunday May 4,2008:
> ...You thought that you shouldn’t have any plans for the holiday Monday which is the 19th of
this month and
> should be able to come here no problem on that date...maybe you and I could have a Chinese
supper either
> on the holiday Monday or on the day before (Sunday the 18th). Or if we make the cake a
bit earlier in the
> week, another date could be Thursday the 15th if my dad can get that day off work to spend
with my
> grandparents.
And next Saturday (the 17th) works for me too. Or depending which day is better for my
dad to take off work, depending whether he can get any time off work at all, Friday the 16th
would work for me too though I know you see your mom most Friday afternoons.
I will copy “Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6” for you tomorrow and if I don’t send you another message
before Monday (I hope to hear from you before then), I’ll see you on that day at 1PM.
-Neil
P.S.
Pasting a smilie into an E-mail message
I assume that you were following the instructions I gave in the message I sent you on
Wednesday Mar.5,2008 when you tried to go about doing so:
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> Now how to insert a smilie into an E-mail
message...If you are using “Microsoft Outlook:”
> 1. Under the “Insert” menu, choose “Picture” and then choose “From File...”
> 2. In the field next to “File
Name...” Instead
of typing the directory path or the filename, type in
> the URL (web address) to
the smilie that you want to insert into your message...
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Here is an image of step 2 from the above process being done, a red
circle is drawn around where you should paste the URL you copied:
Once you paste your URL, click on the button that the red circle is around in the next image:
PS2. Here are your answers how you answered the questions on those Hollywood Squares surveys:
> If you were a member of the cast/crew of "Hollywood Squares", you would be...
the host
> Your sense of humor would be described as...
quirky
> If you could do any job in the world, you would...
take an acting role in a new film...John's gunna star in a
movie .
> People think of you as...
carefree
And BTW, this was one of the ones that I couldn’t answer. If I myself go onto that site and
take the real survey sometime, maybe I won’t have to answer. On some of the online surveys I
have taken previously, I’ve gotten away with not having any of the radio buttons selected on
questions that I couldn’t answer though I know that I’m not “sweet.” I think that people should
think of me as either “friendly” or “carefree.”
> Your favorite quote from the show is...
“They were very popular at my house”
Sunday Apr.27,2008:
> No comment, but if I had to answer I think I’d either say “YOU FOOL!" or "It's a frightening
thing to be able to
> say I sat on top of Richard Simmons.” BTW, was it not Penn Jillette who said “YOU FOOL?” That
would
> probably be the one I’d go with if it was him who said that.
I asked my mom and she told me that it was Penn Jillette who said “YOU FOOL,” so
that’s the one I’d probably go with.
> A color that matches your personality would be...
ocean blue
> Your favorite type of clothing is...
blue jeans and a casual top...You know what mine is after I sent you the scanned images.
> Which of these theme weeks sounds the coolest to you?
Survivor
My mom couldn’t remember the Hallooween week, so mine must be “Game Show Legends.”
> Which H2 regular do you like best?
Gilbert Gottfried...My mom doesn’t like him.
And I remember you said that you never heard of Bruce Vilanch, he appeared in the 2001 TV
movie “Call Me Claus” which you already know Whoopi Goldberg was in.
> Emmy reactions?
I think Regis only got it on the pity vote
And remember I had no comments for this one, but now I think my answer would be “We should
have at LEAST got best game show!”
> What's been your favorite funny moment?
Any bluff given by Gilbert Gottfried
And for this one I wasn’t sure whether “Triumph's comments about women” or “Henry Winkler's
priceless April Fool's joke.” You asked me if I remember what Triumph said about women, and I
don’t remember so my funny moment of All Time must be “Henry Winkler's priceless April Fool's
joke.” This was the episode when Henry Winkler played an April Fool's joke on Tom, the host, the
contestants were hard to get along with.
> Favorite season overall?
1 (1998-1999)
And I think the season in which I saw the most
episodes was season “5 (2002-2003).”
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