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John,
I told you that there are so many things that my mom and dad don’t tell me about. I didn’t
know until yesterday when my dad came home just before Larry left that Raynor had called my dad
one day last week to let him know both your and Larry’s contracts had been extended or that
he (my dad) left a voicemail with Larry after my dad talked to Raynor.
Remember I said that I would like to do Deas Island with Larry on next Tuesday depending on
the weather? Now Larry said to me yesterday that Deas Island would be a place that we could also
go to in the winter and then he asked me if I’m into the kind of things such as festivals and
events because he said he knows that lots of those will be on all summer. He and Natascha were
at Critter Care on last Saturday (the 11th), they were having an open house last weekend.
Larry sent me a link to Critter Care via E-mail (http://www.crittercarewildlife.org/ )
and then later on he might send me some links to summer festivals and events. And he also
suggested that maybe sometime we could meet with his friend, Shona, who doesn’t live too far
from Tynehead Park and I could walk her yellow lab puppy who’s name is Spring.
Larry was reading in the Vancouver Sun yesterday afternoon when he was here about the bike
lane trial on the Burrard Street Bridge. My mom already told me about it a few days before and
she told me that it started just last Saturday (on the 11th of this month) and that lots
of people were complaining about the bike trial because it slowed down traffic. And I already
knew before you mentioned it last Sunday that the Japanese Emperor is in town.
I haven’t told you that Larry’s been bringing his CDs the last several Tuesdays and on some
of those Tuesdays we listened to a couple while we play our board games and we also listened to
a few on some of the times when we went out in his car. When he first put on one of the CDs that
he brought here yesterday, he wanted me to wait and see if I recognize the music before he tells
me which movie the soundtrack is from. He also gave me a hint when he put the CD in...it was
from a big movie. And then a couple tracks into it, I said to him that I don’t recognize any of
the music so far so he showed me the CD’s front cover. Now of course I wouldn’t have recognized
it, because it was the Gladiator soundtrack. I told you in the message I sent you on January
31st 2009 that Larry asked me if I saw the movie
Gladiator
and then I said that blood/guts films such as Gladiator,
Braveheart,
or Troy
are not my thing. Larry also asked me if I’m into such movies as
“The Lord of the Rings”
film trilogy, I told him that I’m not into those but my dad has all three of them on DVD. And
then Larry took a look at my DVDs that I have underneath my TV in the living room to see what
kind of movies I do like, he saw that I have
the first of the three
Spider-Man films. He asked me if I’ve seen the second two Spider-Man movies so I told him that I
haven’t yet but I didn’t tell him why because he doesn’t know that I haven’t
watched any movies with my mom since the time almost five years ago when I was going to watch
“the Grinch” with her. Larry also saw when he was looking at my DVDs that I have the fullscreen
Indiana Jones movie franchise which includes
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,”
“the Temple of Doom,”
and “the Last Crusade.”
He asked me which I like the best of those three, but I didn’t have an answer for him and then
he asked me if I own the new Indiana Jones movie,
“Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
I then told him that my dad has that one and I’ll remind
you that this is a movie I would never see
even if I was able to watch other movies right now unless it’s ever available in fullscreen. My
mom bought that one for my dad for Christmas instead of buying it for me because the DVD’s only
available in widescreen format and from what we could see it doesn’t look like “Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull” is available at all on VHS.
Now today will be the last day of work for my auntie Karen. It was in
the E-mail I sent you three months ago on April 13th 2009
when I first told you that she’s going to be laid off from her job, well she has since decided
that now is a good time to just retire. My dad also talked to my auntie Ann back East on the
phone last Sunday morning (on the 12th) and she told him that her husband, my uncle Les,
will turning 60 tomorrow and that he is thinking about retiring soon.
And also on last Sunday on my mom’s way up to the shower after she dropped me off at your
place, she said that they have a “now hiring” sign on the front of the building where the new
Dairy Queen’s gunna be so she doesn’t think that it will be too much longer before they finally
open. I guess that tomorrow though we’ll have to go to the Dairy Queen again that’s further
North on 152nd up in Scott’s territory. And I guess that this is also the closest DQ to Larry’s
neighbourhood, he told me that him and Natascha sometimes do their shopping at the Save-On-Foods
store that’s across 91st Avenue from it.
See you in Port Coquitlam at 1PM tomorrow.
-Neil
P.S. Links for today:
Critter Care: http://www.crittercarewildlife.org/
Movie: Braveheart *
Movie: Gladiator *
Movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull *
Movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark *
Movie: Troy (the 2004 war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen) *
Movie: Spider-Man (2002)
Movie: the Last Crusade *
Movie: the Temple of Doom *
Movie trilogy: The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
* denotes a link that was in the message I sent you
on Saturday January 31st 2009.
• a green star (*) denotes a link that
was in the message I sent you over a year ago on Wednesday March 26th 2008.
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