How I Met Your Mother

I started watching the TV show series How I Met Your Mother on Saturday, the 24th of the month of July of the year 2010, shortly after working at Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California, United States.

I was renting a room from a friend, Charlotte Battle, in Portland, from the last week of July 2010 until the early parts of June of 2011.

Battle introduced me to another show called Criminal Minds.

She let me watch movies that were memorable.

I learned much from her.

She is a great friend that knows how to listen.

She has a huge heart.

I moved into her house Saturday, the 24th of July 2010.

Redwood Glen.

I worked as a Relief Counselor, and as Program Staff, at The Salvation Army's Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, ia, United States, during the summer of 2010.

I arrived via the Amtrack train on Monday, the 7th of June 2010.

Party at the Campbells

Party at the Campbells.

After Blake Edwards Webb died on Sunday: the 2nd of May 2010, I moved in with the family of Jackie and Bruce and Maggie and the brothers Cambells in Portland, Oregon USA. I lived at their house until the day I hopped on an Amtrak train to be a Relief Counselor & Program Staff at the Salvation Army's Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California USA. A few days before going, Charlotte Battle let me pack my things from my apartment room 414 in the Alder Housing Apartment: 523 Alder: Portland, OR USA, or the address is something like that. I was able to pack my bags into her van and we stored them at The Salvation Army's Moore Street Corps church. After camp, we took my stuff into her house in PDX. I lived with Charlotte from July 2010 until June 2011 when I moved back in with my dad, where I was born and raised at 163 Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA.

At the Campbells, we saw movies in the big screen. We watched the sitcom TV show the Big Bang Theory. We would play Wii video games, especially Donkey Kong and the New Adventures of the Mario Brothers where you can play four players at the same time.

Sunday: the 2nd of May 2010
25 years old
Campbell's House: Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Blake Webb Died

I met Blake Edwards Webb during my first summer of the year of 2007 working as a Wilderness Counselor at The Salvation Army's Camp Kuratli, in Boring, Oregon USA. I worked here the summers of 2007 and 2008.

I served on missions team (funded by The Salvation Army) with him in Hawaii. I landed in Hawaii on Friday, the 31st of August 2007. I was there for 9 months.

I reunited with Webb, as he moved from California to Portland, Oregon to be the youth pastor at the Salvation Army church (corps) called Moore Street Corps in August of 2011. Before, I was not much of a friend, but we started becoming best friends in 2011. I helped him with youth activities and even acted in the children Christmas play at their church in 2011.

I stayed the night at his house Saturday night during the Basketball Tournament at Moore Street. I was helping Webb with sorting the shirts to pass to the players, and we were playing on a team as well.

Saturday night, we talked about my younger sister, about Megan McQuade, about video games, and I fell asleep on the couch in the basement at his house in Portland, Oregon USA. He fell asleep before I did and I thought I heard him struggle with breathing as he slept but I did nothing.

In the morning, I woke up and had some snacks and waited. I was upset because I think we were going to be late for the last day of the basketball tournament, but not that it matters since we were already defeated yesterday.

The owner of the house came home and did not know who I was. I told him I was friends with Blake. I knocked on the door of Blake's room, in the basement, but was not answered by the voice of Blake. I opened the door and saw a lifeless Webb on the bottom bunk of his bed. I told the owner man who immediately called 911. I was not able to perform CPR or mouth to mouth on a bouncing bunk bed with springs.

I did not pull him off his bed in fear of being accused of murdered.


Sunday, the 2nd of May of the year 2010.

By Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal.

About the death of my friend Blake Edwards Webb.

In Portland, Oregon, United States.

They say Webb was having small heart attacks.

I wrote about his death in details, which inspired concern in others.

People thought I needed medical attention and professional help.

Only a few confronted me while others did not even say a word to me.

I was not even asked to speak at his funeral or other events.

Ronnie Gilden hugged me briefly.

Michael Kurtz remarked about how I was still calm. Maybe he thought that I may have been like Dexter, a serial killer who also is calm in the mist of violence as well.

Shutter Island

I saw Shutter Island in the cinema with Dennis Tipton.


Friday: 19th of February 2010
PDX cinema: Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal