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John,
Seeing as how our next meeting with FVMH is coming up in two weeks from today (and Serena’s
coming next Tuesday afternoon, April 8th), I thought that now might be a good time to write
about the heavy stuff. I would feel punished to have to become independent because I’m use to
have everything done for me where I live now. Therefore I would feel punished to leave such an
environment only because I didn’t feel safe living there. If I go live somewhere else, I know
that most other places won’t do everything for me...unless maybe if I could take the
“Carol option.” Another thing Dr. McKibbin said that same visit last month (in March) was
“even though she’s pretty much the only person besides my parents who
I’ve known for a long period of time in my life so far, it won’t be
Carol but the person who I do end up living with could still be someone who's just as nice” and
even if it’s someone who I never met before. You previously read that Carol bent over backwards
for both of her daughters and also for Pete, and once again
she’s nonviolent and
she knew what to do whenever my stomach was
upset. You also read this in the message that I sent you on Sunday
Feb.24,2008:
> ...two things that her and me have in common and two reasons why I think she’d be perfect
for me are that
we
> both have stomach problems
and neither of us like to travel too much...
I also wrote in the same message where the above excerpt came from:
> Since the altercation a few days after last Christmas, my mom has been taping all the TV series that I use to
> watch with her and tapes keep piling up on the floor next to the TV. I probably won’t keep those tapes once
> I’m with Carol, I sometimes have a hard time following what’s going on so if I’m going to watch a
> series with her I think it would be best that we start from the beginning of that series so that Carol
> could better answer any questions that I might have. I should say something about the fact that I don’t want
> to live alone because I like to have someone with me when watching TV in the evenings to explain what goes on.
> I’d rather spend my evenings sitting back, relaxing, and watching TV...
And you’re probably wondering how I plan to go about doing so because some of the series that
I watch are currently ongoing and haven’t yet reached their series finale, they might not reach
their series finally until years from now for all we know. I should say first that you saw I
have a DVD player hooked up to my TV in our living room one of the last times when you were here
and you thought it hadn’t been touched or gotten any use for a few years. I now had my DVD
player for almost six years, I got it not too long after my dad got his first DVD player for our
family room. A few years after I got my DVD player and when I first got my breakout box, I got a
zipper binder and some “CD binder sleeve” pages. I had planned to fill that binder with movies
that I rent on DVD and then copy or movies that I capture from VHS using my breakout box and
then burn them to DVD, but it’s been four years since I put that binder together and I’ll bet
the binder is not a quarter full yet because I only got a few movies in there so far and haven’t
added anything to that book for more than three years.
I already have the first season of
Malcolm in the Middle, the first season of
Everwood, and all 14 episodes of the
Mr. Bean series on DVD and all in fullscreen. I watched all the episodes on my Malcolm in the Middle and Mr. Bean DVDs twice, once with my mom and once with Carol, but I now had my Everwood DVD for a little more than three years and it hasn’t even been opened. Now to get previous episodes from currently ongoing series and episodes from series that have already had their series finale, I could pay with my own money to get more channels or to buy a satellite dish that could pick up channels that might be more likely to rerun some of the series that are more obsolete than others. I do eventually plan to phase out VHS, so instead of recording the shows and then capturing with my breakout box I was thinking about maybe buying a TV tuner card for my computer and then buying software that would allow me to record TV shows to my hard drive so I could then burn them to DVD. An example of such a program could be this one called “PCTV” that I saw at one time and thought I might be interested in...and it’s made by
Pinnacle, the same manufacturer who developed
“Studio Version 9” which is what I use when I work on my grandparents’ home movies. I could then burn the TV shows to DVD and then buy another book that I’d fill with TV show episodes. And then when I’m watching the shows with Carol, I could bring my laptop out and set it down next to me so that I’ll be able to write down my favorite quotes as I hear them being spoken. I could even make a DVD of all the YouTube cat videos that I like, or a DVD of all the Ernie and Bert segments from Sesame Street. Keep in mind though that 1) I told you that the YouTube videos download in FLV format and we therefore need to find software that will convert them to another format
2) I’m sure you know that I don’t like widescreen and prefer fullscreen. And I said this in the
message I sent you on Tuesday Jan.8,2008:
> ...If I could have my way, I’d tape all the Adopt-A-Pet segments every week onto a VHS tape using a VCR and
> then put them all onto one DVD...
I remember you told me about Trish's PVR speaking about recording TV shows which I believe
you can plug into your TV and then record at the same time you’re watching on TV what’s being
recorded, you can pause these things anytime you need to stop to go to the bathroom for example.
And I believe that these things will record the data while paused so you can therefore continue
where you left off when you press “play” after you come back. I haven’t been to a movie
theatre for almost ten years BTW, one other reason why I prefer to wait for movies to come out
on DVD and then watch them in the comfort of my own home aside from the theatres being loud is
because you know that I have to urinate lots. I couldn’t pause when I’m in the theatre like I
can at home and would therefore miss parts of the movie.
Speaking about VCRs and recording TV shows, you asked what I meant by “screen” on my VCR when
I said that my dad thinks the screen might've went. When my mom said “screen” to me, she meant
the menu that comes up on the TV screen where you enter information for things like recording
and setting the time etc. It’s this menu that won’t come up when you press the button though the
VCR will still play VHS tapes. I then asked my mom how they can switch the screen on a VCR and
this is when I found out that my dad meant “switching the VCR in our living room with the
VCR in our computer room,” not the screens. And now here is an excerpt from the same message
where I first told you that my VCR will no longer record:
> ...I told you a few times that my mom reads my E-mails after I type them up and before I
send them to you, I
> don’t know why she didn’t correct me and give me the right information before I sent you that
one last week
> where I said that Sarah Daniels was sometimes mouthy on the air. This is just like when I
originally said this
> in the message I sent you on Tuesday Feb.5,2008:
>
> > ...There was a team from Boston that had won every game in the Super Bowl until last
Sunday, it was the New York
> > team that won in the end.
>
> My mom didn’t tell me and I didn’t find out until after I sent that message that the Super
Bowl is only the final
> game in the series whereas you can see above I had thought when I wrote that that the whole
series was called
> the “Super Bowl” and not just the final game (or match) where New York had won in the
end...
My mom said that she didn’t correct me this time because when she saw the part from the
following excerpt that’s in bold red, she thought that I did mean switching the VCRs. I don’t
know how she could’ve thought I meant switching the VCRs when she read the part that’s in bold
red, I remember that you understood the bold red portion correctly when you read it in the
message where this following excerpt came from:
Tuesday Mar.25,2008:
> ...found that the VCR in our living room would still play though it wouldn’t record. My dad
figured that maybe the
> screen went, he suggested switching it with the screen on the VCR in
our downstairs computer room
> that is hooked up to the breakout box unless maybe you have or you know somebody who might
have a spare
> VCR or even just a broken VCR with a screen that still works.
The VCR in our living room is only a few years old, the screen shouldn’t have went while it’s
this young, and it’s a black JVC VCR while the VCR hooked up to the breakout box in our computer
room is a silver one. Even though I told you above about my plans to phase out on VHS, I’d
prefer our VCR in the living room to be a black one so that it matches the TV and the DVD
player. And I remember you said they don’t make tube (or round screen) TVs anymore like
the one in our living room and is hooked up to my VCR that won’t record, and it’s the same thing
with computer monitors. They only make flat ones now, I don’t want the round stuff to be phased
out until after I’m gone. For when my tube TV or any of my round computer monitors do go, do you
know anyone who might recycle them or any way I could have them say completely rebuilt inside? I
want all my round stuff to last me for the rest of my life or as long as they can last if that
stuff’s gunna be phased out.
I didn’t get to watch any movies since before we had those blinds installed that I told you
about in the message I sent you on Sunday Feb.24,2008. Those blinds are the ones we had
installed almost three years ago on the big windows in our living and dining rooms and are a
special kind that block out more light. I had planned to do more with Mac and Kris including
sleepovers and watching movies with them, but I started to see them less often over the last few
years after more altercations kept stopping me, kept holding me up, etc. The plan I most
recently had in mind before the last altercation just after Christmas but didn’t yet have time
to draw one up on the computer to put in my binder was to fix up the upstairs computer
room (the bedroom that’s next to my room) including fixing up a spot where my friends could
sleep and also if Carol wanted another place to sleep when she stays the nights with me instead
of on the couch. If this was still going to be a computer room, I would plan to leave a space
where we could set up one of those blowup double beds from Canadian Tire if we decide to buy one
and this way we’d have more room in there while no one’s sleeping over and when it’s a computer
room. I don’t plan to have a futon in that room, I don’t like the futon just like you said that
you don’t like the futon. And I already knew before our last meeting with FVMH about the fact
that I could come home anytime I want just for visits or to stay overnight after I move out and
live somewhere else.
Another thing in addition to not watching movies or playing computer games etc, I haven’t
listened to any of my CDs for a few years. The only music I’ve listened to during that time
would be the music they play on the radio when I’m riding in the car. I have CDs that I got for
my last few birthdays and Christmases that haven’t been listened to yet. If you get a new
Mercury Milan and if it has a CD player, you could hear my CDs when we go for long drives to and
from our meetings with FVMH but I always liked to listen to new CDs by myself before taking them
in the car. I use to listen to music every night before going to sleep, but this was many
years ago back when I was still going to school. By the way, remember I told you that I only got
a couple hours of sleep the night when Carol stayed over last August before what happened. I
even told Carol this when I first got up that morning and once I told her she then suggested
that listening to music at night might help me sleep. I hardly downloaded any music for myself
and most of the music that I downloaded so far since the time when I first started to download
music was music that other people I know like so that I could burn their music onto CDs for
them. I didn’t even listen to that Jack Johnson CD when you loaned it to me, but my mom did. I
also didn’t make a copy yet, I just ripped the tracks from the CD onto my hard drive before I
gave it back to you and all of those tracks are still on my hard drive right now. I do plan to
burn those tracks onto a CD from my hard drive and then listen to them myself once burned if I
ever manage to start listening to music again. If I could download a bunch of music from the
net, I would then make a bunch more CDs that I could listen to when I go out in the car and I
might also consider listening to music at night a bit more often once I get a new stereo.
I remember you said about how I went through quite a rough spell for the next
few months after Christmas, don’t forget that this wasn’t the first rough spell I had. Another
thing I remember is that you said one time within the last few weeks when you saw me that the
best thing to do is avoid triggers. I gave a couple examples of times when my mom tried to
trigger me in the message that I sent you last Tuesday Mar.25,2008
> I asked my mom a few hours before supper two days ago (on Sunday the 23rd) what I
could do if they take my
> watch with them the next day. I asked her again a few hours later and this time she suggested
that they could
> take my watch in another time because she thought that my dad glued it really good earlier
that day. She said
> that she was only making a suggestion. I
then ask her why she even made that suggestion when she already
> knew that it was one I would say no to and then she said that she didn’t hear me when I had
said after dad gave
> it to me after he glued it that I still wanted them to take it in anyway. How could she have
missed that? First, I
> remember she said “okay” when I told them earlier to take it in anyway. And second, I later
asked her if she
> decided which store she was going to take it into the next day and she answered me this time
and said that she
> didn’t know yet. I don’t like it when she says that she’s “just making suggestions,” especially again if
> they’re ones that she knows for a long time now that I’ll say no
to. This is just like before we went to the first
> meeting with FVMH last month and you and I were going to have Wendy's for lunch...I told my
mom that I might
> have to spend some time in the washroom “going poop” after I eat and then she suggested that I
could wait and
> have a “nice relaxing” one when I get home. When I asked her why she suggested she then said
that it was just
> chit-chat and that’s what she would’ve done if instead she was the one eating out. Just
because that’s what she’d
> do, does it have to be the same for me. Why’s it necessary for her to say that she’d wait
until after she gets home
> when it’s me who has to go. Now you know that I don’t like when my mom makes these suggestions
like the one
> about my watch for example and I don’t like it when she just chit-chats.
I managed not to hit her during either of the above situations. And even though you wrote in one
of the previous messages you sent me that “abuse of any kind is not acceptable” and that it’s a
good thing that I managed to stop myself from hitting during previous situations that took place
over the last few months, I’m not sure if whether or not I should feel confident that this has
now become a permanent change for me. Another response to what Dr. McKibbin said about the
person I live with could be someone who's just as nice as Carol, keep in mind that
I feel confident that Carol is someone who I would never hit
while if the scenario where I get thrown in with strangers...they would all be new people and
you wouldn’t know right away if they’re ever going to trigger me to hit someone. I think that my
safest option if I want to avoid the consequences after hitting would be the “Carol option.”
Carol just has to rethink her decision about wanting her own life once she's able to retire from
her school job even though you know that
she’s made this clear to me,
she just has to take me. My parents did up a plan for the ministry a few years ago which my
social worker who I had at that time helped them with, they had to put down a few emergency
contacts when they were doing up the plan incase say if my parents get killed in a car accident
for example. My parents put down the phone numbers for a few of my aunts and uncles on my dad’s
side of the family, and I wanted Carol’s number on that list so they put her’s at the top of the
list so that if something ever did happen Carol would be the first person who they contact. This
plan was again done a few years ago obviously while Carol was still my worker, and I told you
that I’ve been avoiding most of my own relatives for a long time and it’s now at the point where
we haven’t had any of our relatives over here to visit for a while. I don’t want the ministry to
find me someplace else to live if something ever happens to my parents,
I want Carol. And I don’t know if Carol even
knows that
I feel more comfortable around her than I do with any of my own
relatives.
I told you in the message that I sent you on Sunday Feb.24,2008 that
I don’t think my parents could accept that Carol and me were spending
time together:
> ...to elaborate on where I said above that it sounds to me like my parents didn’t like the
idea of her coming
> here from Day One. A month before Carol first started working with me, she phoned us to let us
know that
> she would do my respite...We had spent months before the day of that phone call looking for a
worker for
> me and as soon as I found out we had gotten that phone call I knew I wanted her because she
was someone
> who I already met. It made me feel a bit more comfortable about the idea of a new worker
knowing that it would
> be someone from my past. The reason why she didn’t start working for me until a month after
that phone call
> was because my parents wanted someone who had more training. They agreed to go with Carol
after not being
> able to find anybody else, I don’t know if they agreed reluctantly though. I’ll also elaborate
on where I said above
> that I also think my parents would have tried to end our relationship a lot sooner if they had
their way. There was
> another altercation between my parents and myself a few days into year 2005 after New Years
Day and this was
> only a month after Carol first started coming here. I also had thoughts about living somewhere
else the next few
> days after this altercation, but my mom said that if I live somewhere else I won’t have Carol
anymore because I’d
> probably have to live in either Richmond, Langley, or maybe even live in North Surrey again
and wouldn’t get to
> stay in South Surrey.
You heard my mom say at our last meeting with FVMH that I say to her lots that you’re an
awesome guy and that I like to send funny E-mails back and forth. I also like the idea about
trading images as well as talking about other things when we E-mail each other back and forth
like when we write stuff about cars for example though I don’t think it’s right that Carol and I
aren’t seeing each other anymore, I miss hanging out with her every Sunday afternoon. I don’t
think it’s right that she’s still doing respite for those other two families I told you about in
the message that I sent you on Thursday
Mar.13,2008. When we were driving back to my place after we
dropped Mac off last Thursday, remember we passed a trail that my dad told you goes down to the
beach from Centennial Park on 16th Avenue. There’s also a trail that goes down to the beach from
Marine Drive, you walk South down 140th Street from my place and you’re almost at where the
trail starts when you get to the end of 140th which is actually called Nichol Road on the White
Rock side. Carol and I had planned to walk down to the beach together last summer, but again
things kept coming up that would stop me from wanting to go. I never got to walk down to the
beach with her, I want it to be her who I walk down to the beach with and who drives me out to
see Kris. Speaking about Kris, Carol was also his TA when he went to the same elementary school
in Whalley that I went to. He was in grade five the same year that I was in grade six. Kris lived in Whalley at that time and this was when we
first met each other. He only lived a block away from us and he just lived with his mom. A year
after we moved, Kris’s mom passed away and this is when he moved in with his grandparents out in
Langley.
Two reasons why I think my parents sounded happy that they ended
Carol’s and my relationship:
-I told you a few times previously that my dad thinks Carol doesn’t have a heart and was only
being nice and getting us through those bad times when my cousin, David, passed away and when
my grandma (my mom’s mom) passed away because she got paid to do so.
one thing I said in the message that I sent you on
Friday Feb.8,2008:
> ...I don’t like it every time when my mom had said since August “Carol’s not coming back” or when my
> dad said “she’s gone” and I don’t want them to get away with saying that, I don’t think my parents should get
> to win at everything...
I don’t want Carol just to say to me “Oh, you’re doing much better now, that’s
good”...I want her to be a part of my life again. I told my parents many times that they didn’t
do enough preparing for me to be away from them for two nights and I think they’re blaming what
happened on the ministry. You heard my dad say at the first meeting we had with FVMH back in
February that “before they went away they didn’t expect anything like that to happen and they
should’ve told Carol to let me phone them anytime I wanted to” and that ”whenever we asked them
for help for me, all they would give us was just respite.” I think my parents cheated by ending
my relationship with Carol so that I’d be qualified for someone like you who has more training.
I remember my parents told me that I was now qualified for a worker who’d be more trained to work
with people like me now that they know just the regular respite didn’t work for us, and when my
parents told me this I assume this meant that I wouldn’t be qualified for a worker who has more
training unless I had just a regular worker to start with and then if that didn’t work out. I
also have a feeling that my parents triggered the last altercation that only happened a few days
after Christmas so that we’d be eligible for support from the FVMH team.
I wish Carol could hear about our crazy bee story from two days ago. I also remember you
grabbed another real estate flyer off a “for sale” sign when we went for our walk later that
same day. Are you sure that you don’t have any plans to sell your mansion, buy a smaller place
in South Surrey, and put some money aside for donating to the “I want to live with Carol” fund?
If I could live with Carol in this house or on any property that has a lawn, maybe we could hire
Danae’s crew to mow the lawns for us.
You remember my dad said at our last meeting with FVMH that I always tell my mom the day
before what I want for my snacks the next day. By doing this, I hope there’d be less chance of
finding out at the last minute just as I’m almost ready to have it that we’re out of what I want
for my snack. My mom gets a day’s notice this way incase she has to run out and pick up
something.
My dad brought me home a donut (a standard round white glazed one with hole in the
center) yesterday that was leftover from a meeting he was in earlier that
same day, I plan to have it for my dessert after supper tonight. My mom
took the garlic sausage out of freezing and for my evening snack last night I had some of that
with some Swiss cheese, marvel cheese, and some sliced dill pickles all on Carr’s crackers. And
I had all of the Smarties Mini Eggs for my evening snack the night before (on Monday
Mar.31,2008), we only had enough of those for one snack. My dentist appointment is at 11AM
tomorrow morning and the appointments usually take an hour so I probably won’t get out of there
until around Noon. Mom and I will stop at McDonald's after the dentist and pick up my lunch to
take home and eat.
And seeing as how it's not too likely that I’ll
be living with Carol before her birthday coming up on May 1st, maybe one day my parents and me
could take Kris out for supper at the China Kitchen after having moved. When he first moved away
from his grandparents and into that basement suite four years ago, we got him a housewarming
gift. Instead of getting him another housewarming gift this time, maybe we could take him out
for a meal. Or mom and I could take him out for supper at the China Kitchen one day while my
dad’s gone if he decides to go up to the cabin this summer, or you and my birthdays are only two
days apart. Maybe in six months from now we could celebrate both our birthdays and have a big
birthday dinner me, you, both of my parents, Kris, and Mac at the China
Kitchen. I still plan on taking you to see
Kris’s new place one day when we don’t have so much going on BTW.
My mom gave me short notice when she was going to bed two nights ago on Monday evening. She told
me that she was running out of pills and needed to go to the doctor for a new prescription. She
then asked me if I’d be okay home alone if she could get in this morning (Wednesday)
because I’d just be sleeping in and she’d be home before I’m up. I wish she would’ve
given me a bit more notice so that I could’ve made
plans with you.My mom remembers that I use to be okay with her going to appointments in the
morning while I stayed home and slept in so I reminded her that the last couple times when she
went to the doctor she would make her appointments for in the afternoon on days when you’re with
me. She then said that she thought that I was all better now, I’m pretty sure I remember there
also being times before the latest altercation after Christmas when my mom would make her
appointments during times when I had visits with either you or Carol and some days when she had
appointments in the morning we’d then go out for lunch. I now know that my mom could get in
Friday afternoon (on the 4th) at 1:30PM, my dad has that day off and he made an
appointment for in the morning that same day to take his Subaru in for its servicing that it
needs after every 6 thousand kilometers.
If my dad ends up taking his birthday off next Thursday, my parents could go out either for
lunch or for supper. Whichever one of those would work for you. If my dad does take that day
off, we could have a Chinese supper which I mentioned in the last E-mail I sent you. Or if my
dad gets that day off and lunch works better for you, either I never gone to SUBWAY with you
before or we could still have Chinese food and get one of the big Smartie cookies from Safeway
for my dessert.
I said this in the message I sent you on Saturday Mar.22,2008, this exact same thing repeated
itself the last time you left two days ago:
> ...two days ago when he pulled in only a few seconds after mom left to get the mail which was only a few minutes
> after you left...My dad saw my mom leaving to get the mail as he was pulling in two days ago BTW.
I took a picture of the sculpture in our downstairs computer room after my mom made it last
Sunday afternoon incase it didn’t hold until you saw it the next day.
I didn’t get to sleep until just after 2:30AM last Sunday morning (March the 30th), at
around 1:45AM that morning all three of us were awakened by loud noises on our roof. When I
first heard, it sounded like someone running outside and it sounded so loud and so close that it
almost sounded like someone was on the roof running right by my window. My dad said later
that same day (Sunday) that he thought it might’ve been raccoons.
Funny stories about Izzy:
• Just after you left two days ago, Izzy was sitting on my mom’s lap and Izzy tried to bite
her.
• After lunch today, Izzy knocked my yogurt pill off of the kitchen counter and onto the
floor before I took it. Mom got me out a new one and this isn’t the first time pills were wasted
after Izzy getting a hold of them.
• My dad managed to pet Izzy three times this afternoon before he touched her nose. A little
spark of static electricity went across when he touched her nose and it shocked her.
• And the funniest of them all, my mom told me that both of our cats were nothing but trouble
this morning. At 11AM, she found a big pile of throw up at the bottom of the stairs with a big
black hairball in it, this one was probably the work of Chloe if you remember that Izzy never
threw up before. An hour later when my mom went to turn on the Noon News, Izzy came in from
outside carrying a dead bird in her mouth. My mom tried to grab the bird from Izzy but she went
running into the dining room where the fish tanks are. Once in the dining room, my mom grabbed
Izzy by her stomach but she still wouldn’t let go of the bird so she then threw her back
outside. My mom then said that she doesn’t know what she’s going to do with that one. We don’t
know if Izzy actually killed the bird or if it was already dead when she found it, and remember
this wasn’t the first time when Izzy brought us a dead bird. Remember one of the other few times
when she found one, both of our cats had the bird on the lawn in our backyard and both cats
sat there for a while (one on each side of the bird) admiring the bird. After my mom threw
Izzy back outside today, she said that maybe sometime she’ll kill one of the fish in our pond
and then bring that to us. I guess the thing we wouldn’t want Izzy to bring us the most would be
a dead rat because my mom says that dead rats are gross. My mom also said after she threw Izzy
back outside that maybe because she wouldn’t let Izzy bring a dead bird into our house, maybe
she then took it to one of the neighbours. That would be an interesting thing to find out,
whether or not she actually did take it to one of the neighbours. About an hour after my mom
threw Izzy outside, we heard a bird squawk outside so my mom then said that she hopes Izzy isn’t
killing more birds even though again we don’t know whether or not she killed the first one. My
mom then went to get the mail and before she left to do so she said that maybe she’ll run into
our cat killing birds on her way over to the mailbox. After she came back from getting the mail,
she saw a bird in our backyard that Izzy could kill...the heron.
That was just too sad, John, that banned video we saw with “Bert in
the bathtub” that was inappropriate is a modified version someone made
of one of my most favorite Ernie and Bert segments of All Time,
”Ernie brings home a
surprise.” We could watch this video when you’re here on Friday,
you’ll see at the end what the surprise is and why this video was one of my favorites. I
remember the
camping one
was also one of my most favorites back when I use to watch Sesame Street. And I know the
difference between band and banned. When I
first saw that link two days ago and then said “let’s go back a few pages,” I already knew that
this wasn’t going to be a segment of the Sesame Street cast performing as a musical group...if
you were paying attention when I first clicked on the link to that video you would’ve heard me
say, “banned meaning pulled off the air.” And
then when we first started watching this video, I thought that this was going to be my
most favorite Ernie and Bert segment of All Time. Until we came to the part that was
inappropriate, I was sitting there wondering why they would’ve banned that “cute little segment.”
We could also watch that
Cookiegate
video when you’re here on Friday, and maybe we could look up some “Dora the Explorer” videos on
YouTube for you to watch with Scott. I just got through showing my mom that video of
“Oscar The
Boxer” and then she found
this other
video under “Related Videos” that maybe you and I could watch on
Friday.
 And it looks like this one
my mom just found might be the dogs version of the cat video that Kris was watching on our
computer the time when he, you, and Mac were here for supper. I will comment on the other videos
we watched in another E-mail, this message is now eight pages long. I’ll tell you that I think
you did a good Oscar accent, and now I at least know that you can also do Bert’s laugh pretty
good.
My cousin, Jenny, phoned us last night while I was having my shower upstairs. She said that
she still isn’t feeling well, the doctor thought that she might have a sinus infection and Jenny
asked us again about her slideshow when she called us lat night.
My mom read in yesterday’s Peace Arch local paper that they plan to move the big white rock
away from the beach and put it in front of White Rock City Hall, she didn’t know until she went
to look at the story that it was an April fool’s joke. The rock will be staying at the beach.
Late April fool’s, John.
If I don’t E-mail you again tomorrow, see you on Friday at 1PM.
-Neil
P.S. Links that were in the above message and links from previous messages that you tried to
click on and didn’t work:
Flickr Image: A Lil Bit of Easter for Smoggy
Software manufacturer: Pinnacle Systems, Inc
TV series: Everwood
TV series: Malcolm in the Middle
TV series: Mr. Bean (the original live action series, 1990)
Video editing software application: Pinnacle Studio Version 9
Website: National Geographic Channel Videos
YouTube Video: Ernie brings home a surprise
YouTube Video: Sesame Street Special Report - Cookiegate
YouTube Video: talking dogs
Youtube videos:
• Cookie Monster's poem on Galoshes
• Cookie Monster: Heavy Metal Music Video
• Talking Dog: Oscar The Boxer
• Johnny Cash - Nasty Dan (with Oscar the Grouch)
• Sesame Street: I Love Trash (Oscar the Grouch)
• Muppets / Celebrity: Danny DeVito and Oscar laugh it up
• Tito Puente on Sesame Street
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Apartment: Ernie and Bert play the drums
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Apartment: Ernie tries not to wake Bert up
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Expeditions: Ernie makes Bert an ice cream soda
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Nighttime: Ernie and Bert go camping
• Ernie and Bert at the movies: Loud Snacks
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Apartment: Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Apartment: Ernie and Bert share licorice candy
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Expeditions: Bert and Ernie go fishing (modern version) [The pals go fishing, but Ernie has all the luck.]
• Ernie and Bert Sketches - Apartment: Bert Is it
• Battle at Kruger [For more wild footage, go to www.ngcwild.com ]
• Super Bowl Ads: Top Ten Super Bowl Ads 2008
• Super Bowl Ads: Thrillicious - 2008 SoBe Life Water Super Bowl Ad
• Michael Jackson: Thriller music video
• ELECTRIC COMPANY: Oscar the Grouch
• Sesame Street - Public Television [Kermit interviews Oscar the Grouch]
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