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John,
I know you said that you don’t want me to let my mom be overprotective by letting her speak
for me, I’ll let you know myself that I’m okay with doing more than four hours on the occasional
Sunday but doing the extra time on every Sunday would be too much for me right now. Carol stayed
with me from 1 to 5PM on every Sunday when she use to come here. Why do we have to add something
new if you start seeing me on Sundays like either walking your dogs, going to fish stores, or go
to the SPCA and look at all the cats? Whichever of those ideas I choose, I know you said that we
wouldn’t have to do it every Sunday and you also said about how I don’t like to have outings to
places where there are no washrooms.
And I got Larry’s E-mail that you heard him say he sent me. He must’ve sent it just before he
left to come here last Monday (on the 26th) because he sent the E-mail at 12:26PM. Now
Larry said in his E-mail that he is quite experienced in blog development and was wondering if I
might be interested in starting my own blog. He also said about how it’s been awhile since I
have done an update on my webpage, the Stunts Illusion site. And of course it’s been awhile,
remember that I created my account with Facebook a few months ago but I haven’t done anything
with it yet. Obviously “me not feeling ambitious enough to do anything on most of the afternoons
since around the same time when I created my Facebook account” is also one of the reasons why I
haven’t updated my webpage since before then. Also when I showed Larry my bedroom last
Monday (again, the 26th) and he saw my computer in there, he asked me if that’s the computer
that I use right now. The one I use right now is the one downstairs that you and I go on when we
hang out. The one in my bedroom is my old Pentium 133 MHZ and you know that also I haven’t
turned that on for a few months. And speaking about Facebook, I remember you said the last time
when we saw Larry that even though Yoville is suppose to be for kids, there is a group on there
called “Yoville over 30s” for people who are older than 30 and another group called “Yoville
over 40s” which is the one that you belong to. Why isn’t there a group for people who are in
their 20s? I would join if there was a group for 20s.
Here are my thoughts about things we discussed during Larry’s last visit:
You were wondering if I ever drink water with my snacks. I do some days with my
evening snacks, and I drink it everyday with both my lunch and at supper. You remember me
pouring water to drink on the days when we had Chinese food for supper. And I even had an extra
glass of water just before you came last Wednesday (on the 28th). This was more than an
hour after I had breakfast, but for some reason I was thirsty which is not normal for me at that
time of day.
I don’t get tired of playing “SORRY.” I haven’t played any board games for a long time until
I played them with Carol. And you suggested that if Larry’s with me again one more time when
you’re here, maybe the three of us could play Monopoly. No thanks, I’m not into Monopoly or
Chess. And next time when we play “SORRY,” could we please not rotate colours between games? I’d
rather stick to green all the way through. Also it’s confusing to have pawns in unused “Start”
zones when we’re playing. We never did any of this goofy stuff when I played “SORRY” with Carol,
sometimes though we would play “double SORRY” where Carol would be both red and blue and I’d be
green and yellow.
Larry asked me last Monday (on the 26th) if I like Star Wars and he asked me one of
the times when he saw us a few weeks before if I like Star Trek. I’m not a fan of either of
those, my dad’s the one who’s into that stuff. He also asked me if I ever heard of the
lightsaber from Star Wars. When I asked my mom if she remembers me knowing anything about the
lightsaber, she said that they use to have those toy swords out when I was little. And Larry
asked me if I saw the movie Gladiator. My dad has that movie on VHS, but again this is not my
thing. I’m not into blood/guts films such as
Gladiator,
Braveheart,
or Troy.
And when Larry asked me if I know who sang “Undun,” I said “Burton Cummings” and then you
said that it was The Guess Who. Burton Cummings is the lead vocalist for The Guess Who.
My thoughts after Larry’s visit on Monday the 19th:
When we walked by the elementary school two Mondays ago (on the 19th) and
I told Larry that I went to that school for my last three months of grade seven, he then asked
me if I liked Art when I was in school and then he asked me if I liked Music. I told you before
that I had a hard time understanding music when I had to take it in elementary school and that I
never learned my music notes. And I didn’t take Band when I got to High School
because obviously it would’ve been too loud for me. I also didn’t take the Life Skills course
when I was in grade eight because it included going to the woodworking shop which would’ve been
another noisy place and it also included cooking where of course there are mixers, blenders,
etc.
As for Art, that was one of my favorite subjects. I didn’t get to take Art in grade ten
though and they just let me go into “Art 11” the next year because they wanted me to take a
BASES Life Skills class. There was cooking involved and I told you before that the staff in
BASES wouldn’t let me wear my earplugs when we used the mixers and the blenders. We didn’t cook
anything that I liked. And other than the cooking stuff, all the other things that were taught
in the special BASES Life Skills class was mostly primary stuff. I told you in the E-mail I sent
you just over a year ago on Tuesday Jan.29,2008 that I’m higher functioning and I didn’t need
more than one block in the BASES room per semester, just a tutorial block that I would use to
get caught up on extra homework. This was the same E-mail in which I told you that I also had a
wasted block in the BASES room one semester the year before (in grade nine) because they
said that they had to keep me enrolled in P.E. so that I could attend the few days of CAPP
(Career and Personal Planning) that are in “P.E. 9.” That CAPP would only take just a few days
of the semester while for the rest of that semester in that block they were going to have me
doing O&M (Orientation & Mobility) with my vision teacher, but I say that this one was a
“wasted period” because the vision teacher had to cancel a lot of times at the last minute when
I could instead have been off taking the grade nine computer course that I didn’t get to take.
Computers was also one of my best classes. And this was unfair because my friend, Mac, who has
the heart condition also couldn’t take P.E. and they didn’t enroll him in P.E. just to take the
CAPP stuff which I’d think that anyone in his condition would be capable of doing because the
CAPP didn’t include ball sports or anything where Mac could be pushed around.
I’ve only ridden a horse once and that was at the Maplewood Farm in North Vancouver one time
when I was little. It wasn’t a real horse ride, they led the horse along the trail. And when I
asked my mom if that was the only time I rode a horse, she said that she doesn’t know if that
Maplewood Farm is still around.
And it was either this Monday or the one before (the 12th) when Larry talked about
naming his two dogs after TV characters. I remember he said that he named one of them Chief
after Maxwell Smart’s boss from the old TV show,
Get Smart.
I bought my friend, Mac, the movie
Get Smart
starring Steve Carell for Christmas just last month. And his brother got him the old “Get Smart”
TV series which stars Don Adams.
I got out two afternoons ago (on Thursday) with my mom for a walk. I attached a map of
the walk we took that afternoon before stopping at the Macs store and we went counter-clockwise
around the red area that’s highlighted on the map. We saw a house around the corner from my
place on 140A Street that just went up for sale by Mel Smith. This house also has a ramp up to
the front door just like blue rancher does that’s across the street from our house. And when we
went for our walk with Larry last Monday (on the 26th) around my big block, we saw a
house for sale by Karley Smith and you asked me if she’s the one I met. She’s not the one I met,
Mel Smith’s the realtor who sold us our house (the one that we’re living in now) and Todd
Antifaev’s the one who Carol knows. Now also on my walk two days ago with my mom, I saw that
there the fun-seeker was covered with a tarp. The people down our back alley who moved in last
summer also have a boat. The lady was working when we got to the Macs store, and my mom thought
it looked like they were training a couple new guys. And this time I got from the Macs store a
KitKat bar and a “Reese's Peanut Butter Cups” and I had the Peanut Butter Cups for my afternoon
snack when we got home.
We opened the box of holiday-shaped shortbread cookies that I told you my mom and dad got me
for Christmas from The Bay and I had a couple yesterday (on Friday) for my dessert after
lunch. These ones are also the Walkers brand. Remember I also got a box of Walkers shortbread
cookies on the previous Christmas (Christmas 2007), but the cookies that were in that box
were not Christmas holiday shapes.
Yesterday, Janice in my dad’s carpool gave my dad three pieces of cake that were leftover
from Ross’s retirement dinner on the day before (on Thursday). I told you in one of the
E-mails I sent you just recently that Ross is one of my dad’s bosses. There were three big cakes
at the retirement dinner and one of them was a white cake that had strawberry filling inside.
Janice gave my dad one strawberry-filled piece, one long piece of white iced white cake that
didn’t have any filling, and we’re not sure whether or not the third piece is white cake. And
when Janice gave the pieces of cake to my dad, she said to him quote “give them to Neil.” I had
the long piece yesterday for my dessert after supper. And my dad didn’t find out until the
day after the dinner (yesterday) that Marious, the man who joined my dad’s carpool just
within the last few months, was at the same place where the retirement dinner was. The place
they were at had two rooms and Marious was in the other room attending a retirement dinner for
some lady that he knows while my dad attended Ross’s dinner. My dad and Marious didn’t know each
other was in the same place the whole time while they were there, Marious took the bus home and
if my dad knew that Marious was there he would’ve given him a ride home.
When my dad was at work two days ago (on Thursday), he saw two brand new skytrain cars
for the Expo and Millennium lines parked on a big semi truck at the Edmonds maintenance yard.
This had to be a special long semi that delivers the skytrain cars because I think that the cars
would be too long for an ordinary semi. Right now they’re in the process of replacing all of the
skytrain cars because the old ones are wearing out. And remember I told you in the E-mail I sent
you last Friday (on the 23rd of this month) that the Canada Line will be using a
different system than the Expo and Millennium lines, so this means that the Canada Line will
have its own maintenance yard in Richmond under the Oak Street Bridge while the Expo and
Millennium lines will continue to use the one next to the Edmonds skytrain station.
A couple news stories from the last few days:
• My mom told me that she found out on the six o’clock news two days ago
(on Thursday) that they might not twin the Port Mann now, they might just build a new bridge
instead because the current bridge is 50 years old and it costs more and more to maintain. And
they’re not sure yet, this is just talk right now.
• My mom saw on yesterday’s Noon News about they didn’t realize that the lady who I told you
had Octuplets already has six other kids until after she had the fertility treatments. Do you
think she should she have had the fertility treatments if she already had six kids? My mom
thought it was just weird that she got pregnant when she already had six kids and there isn’t a
father in the picture.
Stories about Izzy:
• Last Wednesday when you saw me, you asked me if you read in the E-mail I sent
you on the day before (Tuesday the 27th) that “my dad” got new flannel sheets. My mom got
those sheets for both my dad and herself,
they sleep in the same bed. And Izzy was curled up between the new sheets for half the night on
the first night that they were on my mom and dad’s bed.
• Izzy killed a bird this afternoon but this time my mom wouldn’t let her back inside because
she had feathers hanging from her.
• You thought that Izzy only likes to be petted on her head and doesn’t like anywhere else on
her body to be touched. My mom told me that Izzy lets her pet her back sometimes but Izzy just
doesn’t like her tummy to be touched.
When they were interviewing the one contestant on Jeopardy last Tuesday (the 27th), he
said that he had identical twin boys and they had to paint one of the twin’s nails just for the
first year so that they could be told apart. And most people would think they were girls because
one had the painted nails.
When my mom was watching Jeopardy the next day (on Wednesday evening), I caught it
when the category “CHARACTERS IN MOVIES” came on and I knew the answer to this clue:
George McFly,
Dr. Emmett Brown,
Biff Tannen
I told you in a few previous E-mails that I own the movie trilogy on DVD that those above
characters are in. And you know that
“Everybody Hates Chris”
is one of the shows that I watch, well they were playing Billy Joel’s song
“Pressure”
at the top of last night’s episode.
And when I told my mom that Jason’s moving out at the end of February, she said that you’ll
be the only guy left and you’ll be coming here to get away from all the girls.
I hope you will have time to write me before Monday.
-Neil
P.S. Links for today:
Billy Joel song: Pressure
Movie: Braveheart
Movie: Get Smart (2008)
Movie: Gladiator
Movie: Troy (the 2004 war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen)
TV series: Everybody Hates Chris (2005 - present)
TV series: Get Smart (Don Adams)
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