Message:
John,
My mom decided to go to the casino in Cloverdale for the first hour after she left the house
two days ago (on Thursday), her amount kept going up and down though in the end she came
out with $30 under the amount she went in with. I asked my mom BTW and she said that my dad
didn’t do very good the night before at that same casino. My mom also said about how they opened
a bottom floor in that casino somewhere around six months ago after that casino was only on one
floor to start with. She said that the new second (bottom) floor is where all the table
games are including Texas Hold'em, so now you know that there is now Texas Hold'em at that
casino. After the casino two days ago, my mom then drove back to South Surrey and looked around the
Semiahmoo Mall at sandals for me. She said that so far this year it’s hard to find Velcro
sandals in just plain black; without logos on them, writing, etc and she’s mostly been
seeing brown ones. I remember we also had this same experience the last few years, it took us a
while to find the pair of sandals that I have now and that have a split sole. My mom did say
that she saw a pair of plain black Rockport brand sandals, but they had a bumpy design on the
top of their soles. And she also saw a pair of Columbia brand that she said looked really nice
except the only thing was they were brown. After she finished shoe shopping (er let’s
make that “shoe browsing” seeing as how she didn’t find anything that I would like) and before
she came home, she picked up a few things at the Price Smart store in Semiahmoo Mall. When she
was in the Price Smart store, she saw a big rack of the Lofthouse brand moist sugar cookies that
I like. There were orange (orange flavour) iced ones, lemon iced ones, strawberry iced
ones, and white iced ones with red sprinkles, and they were all white cookies. The only
chocolate cookies that I’ve come across so far made by the Lofthouse brand are those ones that I
told you I got last year at Halloween, I wonder why Lofthouse makes a lot more white cookies
than the amount of chocolate ones that they put out. Now my mom assumed that these cookies she
saw two days ago are ones that are probably there year round and then I asked her if the South
Point Save-On would have these too. She said that she “never saw them there” so if I decide for
her to get me some of these cookies to try after I finish up all the cookies that I have at home
right now, then it’ll have to be a time when she’s going out by herself after you heard at our
first meeting with FVMH back in February of this year about why I haven’t wanted to go into
that store (the Price Smart in Semiahmoo Mall) for a long time. Those strawberry iced
ones sound good, and I think that the white iced ones with red sprinkles might also be worth a
try sometime. Too bad they only put out the white iced ones that have green sprinkles at
Saint Patrick's Day, I wrote to you a while back about how much I really liked those ones. I
thought that those white iced ones with green sprinkles might also be a good thing for them to
put out at Christmas knowing that green is a Christmas colour. And my mom said to me that she’s glad she’s not the lady behind the ice cream counter at
Purdys. My mom walked by the Purdys in Semiahmoo Mall as she was leaving the mall two days ago
and when she walked by she saw that the lady behind the counter was selling ice cream to a bunch
of kids. My mom woke up yesterday morning (on Friday morning) feeling awful, so I didn’t get
out for a walk with her yesterday afternoon. If we had made it out I planned to walk by the Macs
convenience store and get an ice cream bar or something cold from there. My dad went out and
picked up Safeway Chinese food for our supper yesterday after he came home from work, he also
picked up when he was there half of a round double-layer chocolate cake. I told you for my
mom’s birthday last year (in March of 2007) we got a whole double-layer Chocolate Truffle
Cake, this half one that my dad got is some kind of a chocolate fudge. When my dad was waiting
at Safeway in line to pay after he got our food, the cashier had to do a price check for one of
the items that the lady who was in line in front of my dad was buying. Now when my dad was
waiting in line while the clerk went off and did her price check, the same lady in front of him
as well as the lady who was in line behind him were both eyeing up my chocolate cake. And then
after having my Chinese food yesterday for supper and then a piece of the cake for dessert, I
was up with a really upset stomach last night. I hope I’ll feel better by Monday and feel like
going out for a snack then, and if we don’t and we instead end up staying at my place for our
snack I could maybe have a pack of the Thinsations “Thin Crisps.” Here are my points about stuff that I’d want Carol to see, cat stories, and also points about
other stuff that happened this last week and that I want to write about: • After you left two days ago, I told my mom that when you were with me earlier that same day
you asked me if anything had been bugging me within the last little bit that I’d want to discuss
about with you and then I asked my mom if she could think of anything just to be sure that there
wasn’t something I didn’t think of. She said “yah” and thought of something right away, the fact
that I’m worried if I have to move out. And then I reminded her that you already know about that
one, and again she forgot that she read it in the message where I told you about this before I
sent you the message. You thought it was a good idea that I decided to take a break from
discussing and also from writing about heavy stuff for the next little bit seeing as how we
don’t have any meetings coming up for a while. Sunday Apr.20,2008: • I didn’t get to sleep until 3AM the night before you came (night after Wednesday the
23rd). I had one messy toot just before 2:30 and I had another one not long after that and
before 3AM when I fell asleep. My mom said that she didn’t get to sleep until 3 that morning
either. And then Logan started up his car at around ten to 8 that morning, it sat with its
engine running for five minutes before he drove away. I didn’t fall asleep until a quarter after
three the next night (Thursday night/Friday morning) plus I was up having even more messy
toots until I did fall asleep that night. And yet again I didn’t fall asleep until 3AM last
night after being up with an upset stomach, my mom didn’t fall asleep until 3AM last night
either though it didn’t take her long to fall asleep the night before. • Sunday Apr.20,2008: Izzy was laying down on the seat of the rocking chair in our living
room not long before supper, the same thing while I was having supper in that room last
Wednesday (the 23rd), and then remember she was in that spot yet again most of the time
while you were here two days ago. The first time last Sunday was the first we’ve seen her there
in a long time and for some reason we never saw our other cat, Chloe, in that spot. • Izzy was in attack mode last Monday (the 21st). She attacked my mom just before you
got here that same day, John, and then she was eyeing up you. • Wednesday Apr.23,2008: My mom found a big twisty in Izzy’s water dish in the morning.
She (Izzy) probably knocked it off the kitchen counter. • You already know that two days ago on Thursday morning at my dad’s work, a guy named Daryl
who works on my dad’s floor had chest pain and then he had a heart attack so they ended up
having to call the ambulance to come and take him away to hospital. He’s a couple years younger
than my dad and he’s very active, he gets lots of exercise, and he was suppose to have a soccer
tournament coming up. Now what you don’t know yet was that my dad said when he phoned us at
lunch yesterday (on Friday) that it looks like Daryl will be going home in a few days and
my dad also said that he learned that Daryl has a family history of heart disease. • My mom read in the Peace Arch local paper a couple days ago about a bunch of kids who had a
big party last weekend at the running track that’s across 20th Avenue from Softball City
(not too far from where I went to High School). They took the seats off the toilets in the men’s
washroom and they made the toilets so that they wouldn’t work, they also smashed beer bottles
all over the track. The track has since been cleaned up but the men’s washroom is still
closed. • My mom told me that they said at the end of the five o’clock news after you left two days
ago that Jill Krop had her baby”...it’s a boy, and she named it Cole Sampson Krop. It was born
the evening before last Thursday BTW, so his birthday would be the 23rd of April and not the
24th. And I wondered who’d be anchoring Jill’s newscast while she’s away on maternity leave, my
mom said that she’s seen
Robin Stickley
doing it so far. My mom also didn’t tell me until just two days ago that Jill’s already been
away for the last few months. • My mom read in the newspaper a few days ago that they just opened a new Wal-Mart
SuperCentre in Duncan over on the island and that the “first Wal-Mart ever” for South Surrey
will also be a “SuperCentre one” meaning that besides just the department store, it will also
include a grocery store, produce, and my mom thought maybe also some bakery stuff. She also read
that this Wal-Mart location for South Surrey will open sometime this summer (summer 2008)
and I hope that Wal-Mart’s grocery store isn’t gunna put Safeway Canada out of business, that
Safeway in Peninsula Village got the best Chinese food. And even though that is the only
location we know about so far that has that Chinese, you know that all of the Safeway locations
have a lot of other good stuff that I like too. I also hope that Wal-Mart soon to open in South
Surrey is gunna be more like the one in Langley and not like the one on 88th Avenue, I think the
one in Langley has a better flooring layout if you know what I mean. And the sinks in the
washrooms at the Wal-Mart on 88th are a funny shape and neither my mom or myself could figure
out how those sinks work. • I remember you were reading in the paper when you were at my place a couple days ago about
the pine beetle. It got some of the trees within the last few years that are at my uncle’s
mother’s cabin, but my dad said that there’s still a lot of trees there now. I asked you in the
message that I sent you on Saturday Mar.22,2008 if you’re a good fisherman and if fishing’s one
of your interests. If so, would you be interested in going with my dad if he decides to go up to
that cabin again this summer? I also said in that same message that if you want me to I could
put together a short video about the cabin and then send it to you. • When my dad went to get the mail after he got home last Tuesday afternoon (Tuesday
the 22bd), he stopped and talked to Gary across the street who was out power washing his
driveway. He said that he now goes to chemotherapy and he has ten more weeks of it left as of
that date (last Tuesday). He also said that there’s a 30 or 40 percent chance the cancer
will come back, so he’s hoping that the chemo will help. • Remember I told you that we have a Block Watch team in our neighbourhood and that my dad’s
the Co-Captains. He’s the only Co-Captain and Reg is the Captain, he’s the one who lives in the
house on the other side of Marvin and Marjoree’s and next to our mailbox. And my dad and Reg
were thinking at one time about quitting their positions as Co-Captain and Captain because they
said that they both did their turns and they think that it’s now time for somebody else to do
it. • I don’t remember seeing any episodes of Hollywood Squares in which Paul Lynde was the
center square, I didn’t start watching Hollywood Squares until during the time when Whoopi
Goldberg occupied the center square. And then after Whoopi left, a mix of celebrities filled in
as the center square until Martin Mull became the permanent center square for the last season.
If you go to this
site and then click on “Main Stage” at the bottom of the page,
would you be interested in taking the quiz “Who's Your Square” and/or the personality test to
see which season of Hollywood Squares you belong in. At the bottom of this message, you can find
all the answers I would give if I decide to take those surveys sometime. And one question that I
thought of and isn’t on either survey, “who would you like to see in
the center square?” Of course I would’ve liked to
see “Kermit the Frog” in the center square. Who would you like to see in the center square,
John? And I wonder why nobody ever picked Kermit to be their partner for the bonus round that
they had back when Whoopi Goldberg was the center square, the “Big Money Round.” BTW, I watched Whoopi Goldberg’s short-lived comedy television series
“Whoopi“
a few years ago and which was cancelled after only one season.
“Happy Family”
(which I previously gave you the link to in the message I sent you on
Sunday Mar.30,2008) was
its Tuesday evening follow-up that year on NBC. And I also saw Whoopi in “Call Me Claus,”
“Eddie,”
“RAT RACE,”
and
“The Lion King”
as the voice of Shenzi. • You asked me if I like the board game “Scrabble,” my parents have the board game
(remember, they have a Scrabble dictionary) but I haven’t played for a long time. I also
remember you told me about the Scrabble game on Facebook, I have a Scrabble PC game made by
Hasbro Interactive and will run on Windows 3.1 or greater. I’m not sure which version I have but
I think it must be 1.0 (the one released in 1996) if mine will work on Windows 3.1,
“too lazy to go and look at the CD right
now • I remember when you were here with me two days ago you thought that it was neat I could
press a button on my mouse to magnify (this feature is known as “universal zoom”). It’s a
little USB mouse on which you can program the Wheel Button to perform any frequently used
command of your choice, I currently have my Wheel Button set on “universal zoom.” We got this
mouse because it was one of the very few tilt-wheel ones we could find and I find that having
the horizontal scroll is useful when I zoom in (on the screen) to work on an image in
Windows Paint. And the finish on this same mouse is now starting to ware, it therefore might
soon be time for a new mouse for my downstairs desktop PC. I believe that USB ones are made more
for laptops, the only non-USB mouses my dad could find that have a separate horizontal scroll
wheel are sold all the way over in England. • You asked me if I know if my cats like catnip. When I asked my mom, she said that those
Sammy snake toys that they have got some catnip in them and that both our cats like to play with
these toys. And when I told my mom that you said about how the catnip makes cats go kooky, she
then responded by saying that it seems to affect some cats more than others. • I already know that the thing on top the Scottish man’s hat looks like a ping pong ball.
We might have to find another place for that man and Scottish dog if I soon get a DVD storage
tower, I have thought for a long time about getting one and if I do get one I plan to put it in
that corner behind the rocking chair where the lamp currently is. And I told you that those are
my dad’s CDs you were looking at on the other storage towers that are in our downstairs computer
room, all of my CDs are upstairs in my bedroom. • My dad saw that 16th Avenue is dug up at 142nd Street, this is where you turn off 16th to
go to my street. Just so you know that they now got that portion of 16th down to just one lane
in each direction instead of two. I asked my dad if he knew what they were doing and he thinks
that they’re putting in a new pipe and that this might be them continuing with the same work
that they were doing earlier this year when they had 142nd Street dug up in front of the
elementary school. • And when I asked my mom she said that she also never heard of this Mexican celebration you
told me about. I forget what its called, but you know the one that takes place over five days in
May. And now here are the excerpts that you either misread or misunderstood from the last few
previous messages: • The lady in my dad’s carpool is Janice. The
guy “Wen,” short for “Wenpeng” not Wendy, is
the man who lives just down the street from us and who I told you might soon buy a Toyota RAV4.
Wenpeng from my dad’s carpool is a Chinese person BTW: > After my dad saw Mac cross the street in front of him, he dropped off
Janice who just lives around My dad did not yet put that new switch in my wall that he got at Revy. I also said that my
dad’s just gunna bring my current bathroom fan into Revy for now and have them order some
replacement parts for it, we’ll only install a new fan if my current one still doesn’t work the
way we want it to after we order the replacement parts: > My dad walked up to Revy yesterday at lunch and got a new flick switch for the wall in my
bathroom And it was a dial switch that my dad got for me, and my dad doesn’t think he knows how to put
it in and says that he needs to talk to someone who knows a lot about electricity. Instead of
bringing my current fan into Revy, he went earlier today to the little Revy down here at 32nd
Avenue and King George where the Ricky's is and got me a new fan which came with a free cover.
My dad put the new cover on after he installed the fan and I think that the fan in our
downstairs bathroom and also the one in my parents’ master bathroom upstairs should both have
covers that match the one in my bathroom. And at one point when my dad was installing the fan,
he poked something the wrong way and the lights flickered. He says, “you gotta be careful when
working with electricity.” • And an excerpt from the message I sent you on Sunday Apr.20,2008, you thought I went out
and bought some neon tetras. You might’ve already figured this out, but in the following exceprt
where I wrote “each of our four barracks can have a maximum of four dividers” I meant that “each
of barracks can have a maximum of three
dividers and a maximum of four
compartments (or fish),” and my dad
thought that young male beta who’s in the barracks on my 32 gallon and in the compartment that’s
right next to the one his father’s in looks to be the biggest of my babies so far and my dad
also thinks that this one looks a lot like his father: > We found a dead fish at the bottom of my 32 gallon two days ago (on Friday),
it was one of my And speaking about Wenpeng in my dad’s carpool, once I told my dad that you would rather buy
a used car instead of a new one, my dad then told me that Wen plans to buy his new vehicle down
in the States because it’s less expensive than it is to buy one up here. The only disadvantage
about buying a vehicle in the States though is that you don’t get a warranty so if something
happens to your car up here then you have to pay yourself to have your car fixed. While if
something happens after you buy your car up here, you have a warranty and the company who sold
you your car will pay the cost for you. My grandparents (my dad’s parents) haven’t bought
a new vehicle for a long time and the last few they bought were used ones, that’s because they
are both pensioners. My mom told me that they’re predicting rain for Monday, so it will probably be a better day
to have onion rings instead of ice cream if I feel like going out for our snack that day. And
then when we come back to my place after A&W, maybe we could see if we can find that song on
YouTube that I heard you sing two days ago while you were in my downstairs bathroom. You know,
the one you told me The Count sings. And I don’t remember what the song’s called but I remember
hearing you sing something like “English Country Garden.” See you on Monday at 1PM. -Neil P.S. Here are all of the websites you and I visited two days ago in the exact order that we
visited them followed after links from the above message: Disney Animation film: The Lion King • Mercury Sable (Wikipedia page) PS2. This image of Ray Charles was featured on the
Telus site
last Monday (the 21st), he is yet another one of the artists who I like and I have one of his
CDs:
 PS3.  PS4. John’s next car...the “2008 Nissan Altima:”
 PS5. Who's Your Square? > If you were a member of the cast/crew of "Hollywood Squares", you would be... the Center Square > Your sense of humor would be described as... Don’t know, do you have any comment? > If you could do any job in the world, you would... I’m not quite sure, but I think I would either “host a morning radio/TV program" or "write for major awards shows.” > People think of you as... How about I start with you. Do you think of me as wacky, extroverted, sweet, friendly, or carefree? > Your favorite quote from the show is... 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. > A color that matches your personality would be... Guess what mine is. > Your favorite type of clothing is... outdoor clothes and a matching hat What Season of Hollywood Squares Do You Belong In? > Which of these theme weeks sounds the coolest to you? Probably either “Game Show Legends” or “Hollywood Scares (Halloween).” BTW, the “Game Show Legends” was the week when the original host, Peter Marshall, took over the hosting duties for a day while the show’s current host, Tom Bergeron, occupied the center square. > Which H2 regular do you like best? Brad Garrett > Emmy reactions? No comment. > What's been your favorite funny moment? My best funny moments of All Time would have to have been “Triumph's comments about women” and “Henry Winkler's priceless April Fool's joke.” |
.” And I have a
“SORRY” PC game also by Hasbro Interactive but this one will only run on Windows 95 or
greater.