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John,
Once we got the call from my grandma yesterday morning to let us know about their change of
plans, my mom said to me that she was all set to go to the Starlight Casino because it’s bigger
than the Cascades one in Langley which they went to and also because my mom already knew that
the Starlight has underground parking. She and my dad already knew about the parkade behind the
Cascades that you heard them talking about just before you left. After they parked there
yesterday for the first time they realized that it wasn’t as far away as they had originally
thought it was and it only too them one minute to walk into the casino from their car.
After my mom and dad left the casino, they stopped at the Save-On Foods store in South Point
where they got me everything I told you that I wanted them to get; a small bag of milk chocolate
“Moritz ICY SQUARES,” a small bag of dark chocolate “Moritz ICY SQUARES,” white iced Lofthouse
brand moist sugar cookies with red sprinkles (on which the white icing is strawberry flavour),
and a bag of cherry gummies from the bulk section. My dad was the one who got the cherry gummies
and my mom said that he got a lot more than the amount I’d need, but I’m okay with that seeing
how this would last me for a while.
And then when my parents were driving home down 142nd Street, they saw some men putting a new
roof on one of the houses. My mom thought they might be kind of hot working up there. I checked
with my mom after you left yesterday and she said that the last she heard was that they’re still
predicting rain on Friday, you thought that she could’ve been wrong the first time when she said
that to me. And my dad was watching the 24/7 weather channel yesterday before you showed up on
which they have two week forecasts which my dad says isn’t always accurate and I agree with
him.
Just after you left yesterday, my mom saw on the
five o’clock news that someone got swept away in
Lynn Creek. You’ll know it’s summer seeing how this usually happens once or twice every
year.
My mom also told me that they were making fun of Squire Barnes on today’s Noon News after a
horse that he went together and bought with some other people had it’s first race yesterday
during which It started out okay and then came in last.
And my dad heard on the radio that the Second Narrows Bridge was closed today for three hours
due to a police incident. Think about how this will affect the Lions' Gate Bridge, especially
with it happening on the last day of a long
weekend.
If you and me walk into Dairy Queen and we see Carol at one of the tables, your solution
about leaving right away and then going back there another time won’t work seeing how it’s not
that I don’t want to see Carol. I thought
that I already wrote to you both in the message I sent you last Saturday (on June 28th
2008) and in the May 30th message that I don’t want to run into Carol
out in public without going over there and saying something. Anytime
since I left High School when my mom sees one of the teachers from the BASES program at
Semiahmoo Secondary out in public, she tries to not say a word to them. I don’t want my mom to
think the same way about Carol and to not say anything to her if
she (my mom) sees Carol at anytime
when she’s out in public and I’m not with my mom. It is true that I had a stronger connection
with Carol than what I have with you, I also had a stronger connection with her than I did with
any of my own relatives. I am open to explore options towards healing the relationship that she
and I once had. And then I won’t be isolating myself from the community once Carol’s and my
relationship is healed, that is if it hopefully does get healed. And if I do see Carol out in
public anytime while our relationship is not healed, I don’t just want to; say “hi” to her, ask
her how she’s doing, and then her and I not have anything to do with each other again. Also in
the two previous messages where I had already talked about this, I also told you that it’s not
just Carol who I’m worried about running into in public while our relationship is not
healed...we could run into someone who she knows and who recognizes me, I don’t want to run into
anyone like that without going over there and telling them that my mom and dad didn’t do enough
preparing last August for me to be away from them for two nights and/or telling them that I want
Carol to start seeing me again. And Carol also knows the teachers from the BASES program at
Semiahmoo Secondary, if I see any of them when I’m out in public and while Carol’s and my
relationship is not healed I could tell them that I want Carol to start seeing me again. And it
seems like every time I went with Carol to the White Spot on 152nd Street here in South Surrey
we would always run into someone there who she knows. Also, all of the staff at that White Spot
location remembered Carol and me and they would always know to seat us at a dark table. Now I
haven’t been in that one White Spot location once since before Carol’s and my relationship ended
last August, I don’t want to walk in there with you and have them ask me why they haven’t seen
me with Carol.
And the shelf on our fridge door broke off again yesterday not long after you left.
I remember you told me that Dianne didn’t put a wood fence around your front yard seeing how
the fence is underneath the trees and that the paintjob would deteriorate faster the more shade
that the fence is under. Now if I owned that property on the corner of 136A Street and 18A
Avenue, I’d put a wood fence around the lot so that I would have my privacy.
I remember you asked me if I’d ever seen Jaws. I saw the first one with one of my classes
when I was in High School. That was the only time I saw that one and I never saw any of the
other four.
Now that you told me that Seth Rogen doesn’t have a tattoo on his chin and it was print
showing through from the other side of the newspaper page, either I could get someone on the
internet to do a professional job at fixing this for us or maybe we could try and come up with a
way to touch up the image a bit ourselves. And I know that people do get tattoos in the weirdest
places, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that somebody really did get one on their chin. I
also know that people get body piercings in weird places such as tongue piercings.
And I remember you asked me if I’ve backed up yet all of the images that we cropped so far. I
guess I could start backing them up onto my 200GB external hard drive...right now I just have
two internal hard drives in my desktop computer downstairs; a 120GB and a 250GB. I plan to
replace either just one or both of those hard drives and get one or two bigger hard drives once
I get around to completing my grandparents’ home movies. I could ask my parents for a new hard
drive for my birthday coming up, either an internal on or an external one, but I might not get
around to actually having it put inside my downstairs computer (if it’s an internal hard drive)
until after my grandparents’ home movies are complete.
Remember before snack time yesterday the first time when we tried to open Netscape so that we
could go onto YouTube and look at your video that you took of Prince, we got this error
message:
If I click on the blue link in the above message that says “click here,” I then get this
message:
I notice that just recently Netscape takes longer to start the first time when I click on my
desktop icon to launch Netscape only after restarting my computer or after computer has been
left idle for a certain amount of time while turned on. And once Netscape does eventually
launch, the first error message that I gave a screenshot for you above pops up and then it pops
up again the next bunch of times I restart Netscape. Though after restarting Netscape and
getting the same message a bunch of times over and over, it eventually does start
normally (quicker) without popping up the message. I already
tried uninstalling and then reinstalling Netscape twice, I also rebooted my computer once
uninstalling and again after reinstalling but the same thing still
happens. This is my desktop computer downstairs that I’m talking about by the way and the
Netscape version that I currently have installed on that computer is “Netscape Browser version
8.1.3 .”
And then once we rebooted my computer when you were here yesterday, remember that “Spybot -
Search & Destroy” popped up and wanted to do a scan. I told you that Spybot does this every time
when I log onto my user, my Windows desktop user that is. I told my dad that he’ll have to play
around with Spybot’s settings when he gets time and see if he could change the scan so that it
will only do the scan maybe just once per day instead of every time after I either boot up or
reboot.
My mom saw that you were at it again, she found the ping pong ball inside the card on our
fireplace mantel in the family room.
See you on Thursday at 1PM.
-Neil
P.S. The newest addition to our collection of cropped images:
“Jazz and Blue.bmp”
Future’s so bright they gotta wear shades
PS2. Happy Canada Day!
Do you remember that little guy, John?
And there’s more...
Here is a picture I scanned for you that
we took when we were at the Minter Gardens in August of 1990, and maybe a newer up-to-date photo
of this garden could be found somewhere online:
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