January of 2018

I began this month working landscaping for my dad in Forest Grove, OR, until I moved in with my mom & step dad on Monday, the 15th of Jan. I was in Vietnam for 5 years teaching English, 2012-2017. Moved in with my papa straight from Saigon on Thanksgiving, the 23rd of November, 2017. My dad had a couple rent my original room which was also my brother's and before that, Katie's. I slept in what was my sister's room. Before going to Vietnam in 2012, I put our Arnold Attic Videos, 44 VHS video cassette tapes which dates back to 1996 in Oregon, which we made with family and friends, in a suitcase and put it under the counter, between the couch and the counter. I told my dad to take care of them. When I came back home in 2017, five years later, I began looking for those tapes which I was always working on the past twenty years, off and on. I couldn't find them. I wanted to look in the shed, but the roommates, mostly Jamie Dawson, maybe even Robin Baker, didn't want me to touch Jamie's stuff in our shed, in the carport. The videos may have been buried in there. I worked for my dad, 20 hours a week, yard work, landscaping, from November 2017 to January 2018. I was also writing on Steemit, going to Dilley Bible Church. I saw Eddie, who was a little Hispanic boy I played basketball with as a kid. I saw him pull up in a car. He said hello. I rode on the new Forest Grove (FG) city bus which are like paid by tax dollars. I didn't get my videos. I hopped on the Amtrack train. I made it to Olympia. There were no buses that Monday to Shelton due to the holiday. Larry picked me up at Taco Bell. That's when I first met him in person on the fifteenth of that first month of 2018. That month, he gave me a tour of his Shelton Music LLC store. I began attending their church, Mountainview Alliance. I began meeting people in their lives, in their community. I began doing chores, yard work, gardening, mopping, sweeping, vacuuming, for them, on call, whenever, wherever. Began scanning, taking photos, documenting items, photos, drawings, writings, for our photo albums, family history, and my autobiography on Steemit, on computers. I would like to print out some of this as well.