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John,,
That was yet another good day yesterday and I’m glad that all the heavy stuff we needed to
discuss is now over with. Those two scratches that I saw on the kitchen table when I was getting
my snack ready yesterday afternoon were for me, my dad got them when he walked over to the store
last Saturday afternoon after he came home from the airport. They were a “BLACKJACK” and a
“GOLDRUSH" but I won nothing on either. I had another one
for the Safeway bran muffins of my evening snack
last night plus milk to drink with that. I told you for my evening snack the night before I had
half of the Easter jelly candies and now there’s enough of those left for just one more snack,
maybe either I could have them for my afternoon snack one day when you’re here so that you’ll
know what they look like and what I’m talking about when I say “Easter jelly candies” or I could
take a picture of them in a bowl to send to you. And I had a couple more of the Shamrock cookies
for my dessert after lunch today. When my mom got those out for me today she noticed that there
was one broken one in there that I then told her either she or my dad could have, she just gave
me two today and I also suggested to her that because there were ten cookies all together in
that package either I could have three for dessert on a different day or I could let one of my
parents also have a whole one. If we decide for one of my parents to have a whole one, then that
will be two less cookies I’ll have to eat up and one less dessert.
My dad found out today that he’ll be leaving for Kamloops on Thursday, he won’t be gone
overnight now so he’ll be back the same day. I’m glad to know this hopefully shouldn’t affect my
plans to go with him to the fish store on Friday as long as the work doesn’t take longer than
expected and he doesn’t get held up once he’s there, and if Fish World will even be open on Good
Friday. I would be disappointed if I still couldn’t go with him that day though he did say that
if he works on a holiday or a holiday weekend he gets paid triple time.
My mom’s first stop yesterday after she left the house was Semiahmoo Mall. She parked her car
at the mall and walked across the street to Shoppers Drug Mart before going to Purdys at the
mall. She found my Smarties Mini Eggs at Shoppers, she got me two bags. Those bags are so small
that we don’t know if just one of those will be enough for a snack for me or if I should have
both when I go to have them. Even if I have both bags for the same snack, my mom said she only
got me just the two bags because she knows that I already have enough other Easter stuff. After
Shoppers, she went back across to Purdys and got me my half a milk chocolate eggshell filled
with foil wrapped chocolate eggs. She then went to the Safeway in Peninsula Village, they didn’t
have any Easter cakes out yet. Also from Safeway, she picked up a turkey for Easter dinner, some
hot cross buns, and a piece of barbeque salmon that I had for my supper last night with
ham-fried rice leftover from the night before. I didn’t know until my mom told me after she got
home yesterday that most places only sell hot cross buns at Easter, I didn’t know it was an
Easter food. I thought that hot cross buns were a year-round food, my mom also said that a few
place do sell them year-round. After Safeway, she went across to London Drugs and saw that they
had the same bags of Smarties Mini Eggs. These were the same size as the two she got me from
Shoppers and she didn’t see any bigger sizes at London Drugs. She also got some red grapes when
she was out yesterday, I don’t mind those for my afternoon snacks once in a while for a change
from green grapes just as long as they aren’t the kind of grapes that have seeds in them.
I suggested to my mom after you left that depending on which days he’s available maybe we
could have a “combination Easter-Mac’s birthday” dinner for him either next Monday (the
24th) or on Easter Sunday. Either the four of us just my parents, Mac, and myself could have a
turkey dinner and then have Easter cake for dessert, or you and I could have Safeway Chinese
food for supper on Monday while my parents go out somewhere else for supper and then we’d have
the first pieces of Easter cake, or all five of us (me, you, both of my parents, and Mac)
could have a Chinese food and pizza supper on Monday or whatever else Mac wants to eat if he
doesn’t want pizza. I guess it sounds like Monday’s probably the better day for you instead of
Sunday because I remember you told me that you would like to go and see your mom on Easter
Sunday. And my mom said that she saw the hours for
Safeway when she was there yesterday and they close at 6PM on Easter Sunday, she said that the
Chinese food probably won’t be as fresh because they probably don’t have as much demand for
Chinese food on Easter Sunday so therefore Monday sounds like the better day if we decide to
have Chinese food. If we do decide to have this dinner all five of us, there will just be five
of us this time while our table can seat six. Maybe either Mac will feel like going with my dad
to pick up the food this time or my dad could go out and get the food by himself while Mac stays
here and chats with you and also while I help my mom in the kitchen. My mom said that I should
probably call Mac sometime this week and find out if he’s doing any better than he was the last
time you saw him because I haven’t talked to him on the phone or saw him in person since before
he had his surgery a few days before Christmas. It should maybe be up to Mac which one of my
many ideas that I’ve thrown onto the table because he’s the birthday boy, but depending which of
the days I had in mind might work better for you and if you decide to do the pizza and Chinese
supper you can answer this message before tomorrow so that way I could give Mac a call tomorrow
afternoon and find out whether or not Monday’s good for him. Again, the other ideas I had thrown
out for Mac’s birthday:
> ...If we decide to take him out for a meal either we could take him to Boston Pizza if just
you and I take him or if my
> dad comes with the three of us we could go to one of
the Moxie's locations. I’d get natchos either way...
If we decide to do one of the ideas in the above excerpt, it doesn’t necessarily have to be
done on Easter weekend. We could do it either on Mac’s actual birthday next Wednesday or we
could do it a different day later on that same week and just you and I could still have Chinese
food for supper on Monday. I also said in that same message I sent you two days ago that either
I could go with my mom one day to one of the card stores and pick out a card for him or we could
even try to make one. If we decide that it won’t be too much trouble to make a birthday card for
him, I thought that maybe we could try to grab a screenshot from that YouTube video...a
screenshot of the dog, the cat, and the rat all three together to print onto the front of the
card. Here is what else I said in the last E-mail about making birthday cards and about
downloading YouTube videos:
> ...I had hoped to find a birthday card with a picture on the front of Nora playing the
piano to give to Carol for her birthday
> last year (May 2007), but I couldn’t find one and we instead got her
a birthday card with the picture on the front
> being of a different cat playing piano. My dad
found this
website a while back that allows you to download
> YouTube videos directly to your hard drive, but from there the videos download in FLV format.
If I was still seeing Carol
> and if I had either an FLV player or some program that would allow me to convert FLV to other
formats that I can play
> such as AVI or MPEG, I would’ve liked to grab a screenshot from the Nora video and make my own
birthday card with
> the picture of Nora on the front and then give the card to Carol for her birthday this
year...I’m sure you could probably
> buy paper for the printer that feels just the same as a real birthday card that you would buy
in the stores...
My mom said she’ll check Safeway again when she’s out while you’re with me on Thursday and if
they still don’t have any Easter cakes she said that she’d then drive down to the Hillcrest
bakery and see if they have anything for Easter cakes. If they do and if there’s more than one
cake there that I like to choose from, she said she’d bring me back there sometime so I could
pick out one. The only time before Easter I could think of that would be a good time for me to
do that with her if you’re gunna be with me on Thursday is if I go with her on Friday after my
dad and I get back from the fish store. I told my mom that another option is she could take me
seriously about reserving a round double-layer chocolate Easter cake from one of the Safeways
like the one in the image that I sent you. I also said to her that if she does this she could if
possible order it for the last day when they get shipped before Easter so that we won’t have it
sitting around too long if we don’t want to start eating it until either Sunday or Monday.
My mom remembered to phone Serena back this morning, my mom got her answering machine and had
to hang up because her throat started bothering her all of a sudden so she took a few sips of
coffee before calling the number again and leaving a message the second time. I said to my mom
that I don’t want Serena to come this week when she books another visit because you know I
already have a lot going on this week and so far next week might not be good either because
Mac’s birthday is up in the air right now and we don’t know what we’re doing for him. I then
said to my mom that if Serena can’t come until the week after next week, that’s the week of my
dentist appointment and then I’d have an excuse to change it because you know that I don’t like
too much happening in one week. My mom then asked me, “why not just go get it over with.”
There are a few heavy points:
-When my mom got my pills (my Luvox) out for me before I went to bed last night, she
asked me if twenty pills was my new dosage. I then asked her why she said that. She then said
that she was just teasing me. I then said to her that I notice it’s not normal for her to tease
like that and then she said that she does tease that way lots even though I hardly ever notice
her doing so.
-Remember I told you a while back that my cousin, Jenny, wants me to do a slideshow for her. I
told you Jenny did say that she's not in a hurry for
this to be done, but my mom asked me a few days ago if scanning the pictures that she wants in
her slideshow would be something that she (my mom) could do. I told her I’d still scan
the pictures...Would this be something that maybe I could do with you?
In the attached ZIP file you can get the latest scanned image that we cropped. Let me know as
soon as you downloaded temp files 1, 2, and 3 off my website and then I’ll delete them. I think
you saw all of the other images before you came yesterday, you said that you downloaded both ZIP
files #2 and 3 and you also saw the images from Aladdin and “The Lion King”...Again, I don’t
know which other images you were talking about when you said that you didn’t see them. There
were no images attached right to that message in ZIP files. I’ll make this a shorter message so
that you’ll hopefully have a few days to get caught up on those links I keep sending you which I
put together for you in one spot at the bottom of this message so that you won’t have to go
searching through your mail for them, see that I’m good at inserting links into E-mail
messages. And this message is now three pages
long (not counting the PS). I’ll tell you one thing though, another show that my mom
watches,
Dancing
With the Stars, premiered last night. One of the celebrity
contestants who’s on it this season is Penn Jillette from the Penn and Teller duo. I saw Penn
and Teller quite often on Hollywood Squares when I use to watch that game show until it
got cancelled around
mid-2004 . Penn’s the one
that talks.
And once you look at the Cookie Monster video, why don’t you send me the link to your
favorite Sesame Street video on YouTube? Who was your favorite muppet from Sesame Street? To
link to your favorite muppet’s page on
Muppet Wiki
when writing an E-mail in Microsoft Outlook; select the text where you want to insert the
hyperlink, right-click your mouse overtop of the text that you selected, choose “Hyperlink...”
from the menu that pops up, and then paste the URL to your favorite muppet into the “Address”
field and click “OK.” You asked me when you were here yesterday if I knew who the best-known
fictional detective was, did you know that there’s a muppet spoof of him on Sesame Street? His
name is Sherlock
Hemlock and his sidekick,
Watson the
dog, is a muppet spoof of Dr. John H. Watson (or "Dr. Watson" for short).
A few stories that have been on the news:
-At the end of the six ’clock news on Sunday (the 16th), they said that they were getting
snow in some parts of North Vancouver.
-They had a story at the end of yesterday’s Noon News that my mom saw just before you came about
a couple that had been married 83 years. The wife is 99 years old and the husband is 101. They
have six children, twenty some odd grandchildren, 100 great grandchildren, and a few great-great
grandchildren.
I discovered the latest thing you did in our downstairs computer room only a couple hours
after you left, you put your boat that you made on the dog’s head. After you put your two ping
pong balls back on top of the cat springs, my mom thought they look pretty much the same as they
did when I took a picture of them like that. I did take a picture though of what else you did
after my mom finally discovered it this morning, she found some grass on the carpet in our
downstairs hallway on her way to showing me after she called me to come see. Chloe must have
thrown it up after she was outside earlier this morning.
-Neil P.S. Wikipedia pages:
Game Show: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader (the American one)
Movie: Men with Brooms
Movie: Secondhand Lions
Muppet: Bert
Muppet: Kermit
PC game: Colin McRae Rally (the first one)
PC game: Need for Speed: High Stakes
Reality television show: What Not To Wear (on TLC)
TV series: Boston Public
TV series: Sesame Street
TV series: Undeclared
Vehicle: Mercury Milan
Other: The Muppets characters
YouTube Videos:
• funny speaking / talking cats
• NPR Cookie Monster Interview with Elizabeth Blair
• Sleeping cat (the one that looks like Izzy)
Added today: (Tuesday Mar.18,2008)
Game show: Dancing With the Stars
Game show: Hollywood Squares
Muppet: Sherlock Hemlock
Muppet Pets: Watson
Website: Muppet Wiki
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