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John,
When I asked my parents after you left two days ago (on Thursday) if they would like
to see me have my own place, they said that they would because they want me to get use to other
people helping me before something happens to them. Why can’t I get use to other people helping
me while still living where I am now? And I already know that there
isn’t anybody who doesn’t worry about moving out.
If you remember, I said in the previous E-mail
(the one I sent you last Tuesday) that I think Scott would benefit from living away from his
folks more than I would from living away from mine. And you told me that the place where he now
lives is staffed 24/7. I am aware that the chances of me living with
Carol don’t look good though I feel that Carol shouldn’t have to be
paid to be with me 24/7 but should want to be with me 24/7. I also remember you told me
that Scott was getting bored when he was living at home with his parents and that the five
caretakers who staff the place where he lives at now will take him out to do things. I shouldn’t
feel bored if I could be living with Carol, I would hope that I’d finally get to play my
computer games in peace in the afternoons as well as watch TV with Carol most evenings. I’d also
like to get out with Carol for walks in the afternoons on days when the weather’s nicer. I know
for one thing that the guidelines should be the same at where Carol lives as they are where I
live now. And I said in the last E-mail I sent you that I am open to building new relationships,
but I still want to be based with Carol at wherever she’ll end up living.
Wednesday May 14,2008:
> ...I remember you said to me one time not long after our last meeting with FVMH that “there’s
lots of Carols
> out there,” but I think the Carol I know is the perfect candidate to be a caretaker...And
again I think that
> Carol’s making the wrong decision to want her own life once she’s able to retire, I think that
Carol would be
> a good caretaker and I’ll also say again that I think she’s the right person to be a
caretaker...
I remember you told me that a “hypocrite” is someone who says one thing and does another and
that I’m not one to still be seeing my friends while not having anything to do with Carol. I
didn’t say that I’m a “hypocrite” because I said a few days after what happened last August that
“I’m not having anything more to do with either of my friends unless I see Carol again and I
mean it.” When I said that I’d be a “hypocrite” what I meant was that I just didn’t think it was
right that I still keep in touch with my friends while no longer seeing Carol, and I also knew
that I just wouldn’t feel comfortable if I ate the rest of those cupcakes after what happened
between myself and Carol. If hypocrite’s not the word to describe what I meant,
maybe you know the term that might better describe it. And I’ll remind you that I only started
to see my friends again once I met you for the first time, I might still not be talking to them
now since that time last August if I didn’t meet you a few months later.
I remember you asked me a couple days ago that if I had to get a job what field would I work
in and I told you that I’d probably would’ve chosen to do something in the computer industry.
Back when I had my dream almost ten years ago about going to college after I finish High School
and living independently just like my friend Kris, I had thought about being a computer
programmer and then maybe eventually starting my own PC game
publishing and developing business.
I tried to take a computer programming course in grade twelve but I only lasted a few days in
that course because I didn’t like the teacher, Gordon Langdon. Also, the teachers in BASES
thought that programming might be too hard for me. And Gordon’s wife by the way, Heather, use to
be a kindergarten teacher at “H T Thrift,” the elementary school where Carol worked before she
got her job at Earl Marriott.
I could’ve sent you the previous message
an hour sooner last Tuesday evening, but Andy came to the door with a present for my dad to take
into work the next day and leave for Angie’s secretary who is Steve Darling’s wife. This was a
present to give to their baby who they were going to have a shower for. Angie works on the 18th
floor in my dad’s building and my dad himself works on the third floor. Also, my mom had to run
out that same evening (on Tuesday the 10th) to pick up a few things, so she couldn’t
proofread my message until after 9PM while I was having my snack. And when my mom was out that
evening, she discovered that London Drugs doesn’t have allan gummies again.
One day this last week, my dad got an E-mail from my auntie Karen with an invitation to an
engagement party that they’re having next Saturday (on the 21st of this month) for
her son, my cousin Jeff, and the girl that he’s
getting married to this summer who’s name is Jen. My dad’s not sure whether or not he’ll
go and I’ll tell you that both of my parents could’ve went if Carol was still my worker.
My grandpa phoned my dad two days ago (on Thursday the 12th) at around supper time to
let him know that my auntie Sue’s brother, Danny, passed away the day before (on the
Wednesday) at age 62 after having a heart attack. They found his body slumped over the steering
wheel in his car. They had been worried about this guy for the last few years healthwise and
also worried about him when he lost a lot of his money after he opened a computer store a few
years ago that didn’t do a good business.
My dad took yesterday off work and in the morning before he left to go out to the valley, he
went running upstairs to my mom’s bedroom and told her that “the garage smells nice now” because
he broke a bottle of wine on the floor in our garage that he was going to take with him and give
to my grandpa. My dad took those two plastic computer mats with him that have been sitting in
our garage for the last while and he dropped them off at the transfer station near Port Kells on
his way out to Abbotsford. And speaking about these mats, I think I’ve gotten use to the one
that is in our downstairs computer room right now which I told you when we first got it a few
months ago that I wasn’t sure about the bumpy feel under my feet. You haven’t seen me wearing
socks for the last while and I myself haven’t noticed this bothering me within the last few
months.
Points about meals and snacks:
• Tuesday June 10,2008 - evening snack: I had a couple of the Cadbury milk
chocolates with my peanut butter WILLOCRISPs, the ones that my parents gave me for Christmas.
That evening, I had a strawberry cream and an orange. The strawberry cream, the orange, and the
vanilla fudge, are almost the only three kinds I like that are in that box, most of the other
kinds that are in that box either were chewy or had nuts in them.
• Friday June 13,2008: My dad stopped at the Peninsula Village Safeway on his way home from the
valley and got me Chinese food for supper. I had a “Triple Chocolate Torte” for dessert that my
parents got for me when they were at Safeway the day before (on Thursday).
A couple cat stories:
• Wednesday June 11,2008 - afternoon: My mom went to empty Chloe’s toy basket so
that she could take it in the laundry room and vacuum it out when Chloe jumped in the
basket.
• My dad already told you what happened just before you got here two days ago, he was just
coming back when you came to the door. Again, I’m not giving up on
making a diary out of the messages that I send you in hopes that I’ll
be reunited with Carol sometime and then I will get to share everything with her that she missed
and that’s been happening with me during the time we haven’t seen each other which has almost
been a year now. Anyway, my mom saw Meika, the cat who lives next door, running down the
sidewalk in our backyard dragging her leash behind her after she had come over the fence. The
end of her leash got caught under my mom’s heavy strawberry pot as she was running down our
sidewalk. My mom yelled over the fence but nobody answered so my dad took her on the leash to
their front door. My mom thinks that they must’ve had it tied up in their backyard when she got
loose.
Remember I told you when I looked out the window one of the times when you were here this
last week that I saw a HandyDART going down my front street. The old lady, Muriel, who lives
next door on the other side of me now takes the HandyDART everyday. She just started doing so
within the last few weeks as soon as her brother and his wife who’d been living with her for the
last while moved back into their own place in Country Woods. Country Woods is somewhere between
24th Avenue and 32nd Avenue and not too far from 176th Street. And Muriel’s brother still comes
back to her house every week and does her yard work and gardening for her.
A couple news points:
• They were saying on Thursday’s Noon News two days ago (on the 12th) that so far
this is the coldest June on record for our area.
• My mom told me that the top story on yesterday’s Noon News was about some guy who had gone
missing in White Rock. He had been missing for the last four days as of yesterday, before
which he was coming home late at night after he’d been out drinking with a friend. The two of
them had decided to go their own separate ways at one point along the way home and that’s the
last time he had been seen. They know he made it home because they found the jacket that he wore
that evening in their apartment. They interviewed his parents at the corner of Thrift and
Johnston which is around the area where he went missing and they say that he’s the fourth young
man to have disappeared around the Lower Mainland within the last while. My mom told me that one
of the other three went missing in Langley and another one in Burnaby.
My mom also told me that she saw the weather forecast on yesterday’s news and that we’re
suppose to get up to a high of 21 degrees Celsius on Monday so I thought if I’m over my cold by
then that it might be a good day to go to Dairy Queen and try one of those strawberry blizzards
that my mom saw advertised on their sign. And when I ask for my strawberry blizzard you make
sure that they don’t give me a Strawberry Cheesequake. Or if I’m still not over my cold by then
and we end up having our snack at my place, I could have the Glosette Raisins that we bought two
days ago at Macs. Speaking about the Macs store, that guy who was working when we were in there
last two days ago and who gives me the deals had only been working there for the last few years.
It was a different guy working there before he took over. I remember you told me the last time
you went in there by yourself that guy wasn’t working then, it was a lady who looked like she
had a new guy working with her. She could’ve been the same lady who was working there at the
time when I told you that I walked over there with my mom last month and got a box of “Reese's
Pieces” and a box of “Glosette Raisins.” That guy who gives me the deals also wasn’t there at
the one time I went with my mom.
My dad had a nosebleed just after lunch today. He had to sit on a kitchen chair and pinch his
nose for ten minutes because he didn’t want to sit on any furniture with his nose bleeding. This
was the first time in a long time I remember my dad having a nosebleed, and we’re not exactly
sure why he had one though my mom thought it might’ve been something to do with his
cold.
Later on in the afternoon today, my dad walked over to the insurance place right across the
street from the Macs store and renewed the insurance for his boat even though I said to him that
he doesn’t know many people right now who he could take fishing with him. Are you a good
fisherman, do you have any interest in fishing, and would you be interested in going with
him? My dad said that Dave at work wouldn’t mind going with him, and as soon as my mom heard him
tell me that she then said that it should just work out if he wants to go seeing how Dave lives
in Maple Ridge which is on the way up to Alouette Lake. And Alouette Lake is where my dad likes
to go fishing. Anyway, after my mom said about Maple Ridge being on the way I then reminded my
dad that if he takes you on another day, you only live approx twenty minutes away from us so it
shouldn’t be too far for my dad to go out of his way to pick you up one morning.
About twenty minutes ago (around 7:30PM), my dad flushed one of my baby female betas
who was originally in our ten gallon fish tank, the one above our five gallon. She had jumped
from the tank up into one of the compartments on the barracks where she fought with the female
that was already in that compartment. Also this evening my dad moved approx six more female
betas that he had in jars on top of the fridge over to the same ten gallon which he just fished
the dead female out of its barracks. I now only have about six females left in jars. I took a
look at the betas in the fish tanks just now, it’s been a while since the last time I looked at
these and I see that they are now quite big. It’s almost gunna be time for me to go with my dad
and trade them in pretty quick.
My dad won $10 on a $5 scratch two nights ago (on Thursday evening), my mom won $5 on
a $3 scratch yesterday evening, and just now I won $4 on a BLACKJACK.
My mom thought you were teasing me when I told her that you thought Dean Martin was on the
list I sent you recently of the singers that I like because mom knows that Dean Martin was
before my time.
When I told my mom that you asked me the last time you saw me if I know who Don Rickles is,
she then responded and said that she doesn’t care for Don Rickles. I also told you BTW that Don
Rickles was the center square on Hollywood Squares for one week during the season which a mix of
celebrities filled in as the center square after Whoopi Goldberg left and before Martin Mull
became the new permanent center square.
When you were here two days ago on Thursday, you were reading out loud the games that you
could buy for your cell phone. I remember two of the ones that you read out were
Tetris
and Pac-Man
and I’ll tell you that I remember both of these games. I still have the
“Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack”
on a 3.5 inch disk upstairs which was made for “Windows 3.1” and includes the original classic
Tetris along with twelve other games, my five most favorites in this package were;
Chip's Challenge,
JezzBall,
Pipe Dream,
Rodent's Revenge,
and Tetris. You might remember some of these games from back in the days of Windows 3.1 . I also
own the PC version of the newer game
“Tetris Worlds”
which was released in 2001. As for Pac-Man, I also have on a 3.5 inch floppy disk the first
“Microsoft Return of Arcade” package (the one released in 1995 for Windows 95) which
contains Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dig Dug. My two favorites in that package were
Dig Dug
and Pac-Man, I didn’t care for the other two. And I own the PC version of
“Pac-Man: Adventures in Time,”
this one was released in 2000.
Which of your surprises that we have discovered since you were here two days ago:
• Thursday June 12,2008 - evening: My mom was sitting in the living room watching
TV when she looked up and discovered one of the furry cat toys on top of the picture.
• Thursday June 12,2008 - evening: One hour after the above one was discovered, my dad was
closing the curtain in the family room when a ping pong ball fell down.
• Saturday June 14,2008 - evening: And most recently, just within the last hour my mom found
your blue ping pong ball in the candy dish.
See you on Monday at 1PM.
-Neil
P.S. Here’s a new list of links for ya:
• Arcade game: Dig Dug
• Arcade game: Pac-Man
• Arcade game: Tetris
• PC game: Pac-Man: Adventures in Time (2000)
• PC game: Tetris Worlds (2001)
• PC games collection: Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
• Puzzle video game: JezzBall
• Video game: Chip's Challenge
• Video game/Puzzle video game: Pipe Dream
• Windows puzzle game: Rodent's Revenge
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