Agape Church of Christ
I started going to the Agape Church of Christ in Portland, Oregon USA in October or November of the year 2008, as I was moving out of my father's house in Forest Grove to my own apartment studio at the Alder Housing Apartments in Portland, OR USA.
I met memorable friends here.
2008
23 years old
Portland, OR USA
Joey Arnold
Showing posts with label FG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FG. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Free Geek
Free Geek.
My mom may have called Free Geek back in the year 2000 or so. Back in that year or around that time, a van came to our trailer in Forest Grove. They picked up some of our electronics, so that they could recycle our junk. Some of the people were children around 8 to 16 years old and there may have been a woman and other adults. It may have been a family. They may have been volunteers of Free Geek or another organization.
After flying from my second college in West Virginia to my home in Oregon in early May 2007, I think my mother insisted that I hop on a bus heading to Portland, Oregon. Before leaving my college in West Virginia, I bought a laptop for $50 from my friend Matt Manehan. He could have asked for $2,000. It was a good laptop. I looked up the address for Free Geek. I would try to find wifi at the Pacific University and library and I was able to find free wifi while in my room in my trailer that I was raised in, you know, in Forest Grove.
When I made it to Portland, I got lost because I was kind of going the wrong direction and it was hot sunny day, but I made it and took a tour and eventually began volunteering and going through their programs. You learn how to recycle and take apart computers, printers, and other electronics. Later, I began learning how to build computers. The 5 computer you can take home with you for free.
In June, I went to Camp Kuratli to be a Wilderness Counselor. After that, I attended my first Western Youth Institute (WYI) at the Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California USA, and WYI is a week-long young-adults retreat for those associate with The Salvation Army.
During the second or so week of August 2007, I started returning to Free Geek, and one day, as I was going there, as I was walking, Lincoln Hawk called my cell phone (which was my first mobile phone ever that I got May 2007, which was my sisters or Jesse's or my dad's or Savannah Larson, or somebody). I never gave him my number. I met Lincoln at WYI. That was the first WYI I ever attended. I also attended WYI in 2008 and 2010 at Camp Arnold in Washington (state) USA.
Lincoln suggested that I call Rob Noland. I had an application to apply for Revolution Hawaii but I already threw that away. I ended up filling out an application on my laptop. I talked to Rob on the phone. I emailed Rob the application. The deadline was already passed. The team members are suppose to fly to Hawaii in the next 3 or so days. I was accepted on like a Wednesday and I made it into Hawaii Friday, which was like the 31st of August 2007. Rob told me that he wouldn't have let Crazy Oatmeal join RevHI but Joey Arnold could. When I talked to Rob on the phone, Rob was only able to hear the voice of Joey. I did not talk to Rob at WYI, except to compare him to pancakes and apple-sauce, or something, which he thought was crazy that I do things like that.
While I was in Hawaii, I sent a letter to Free Geek.
In October or so of 2008, when I started going back to Free Geek, they told me that they got my letter. I was kind of popular. I could not tell how they felt about it, since most of them seem to be not Christians. I eventually made my 5th box that I was able to take home. Like the next year or so, I made a second take-home box that I was able to take home as well. I think I only took home only 2 computers. You are allowed to take home one computer per twelve months. I met people here that are interesting people. You can get free coffee, bread, snacks, here, as well. You can learn many things here.
They do not use Microsoft Windows here.
They use Linux's Ubuntu (Operating-System: OS).
May 2007
22 years old
Freek Geek: Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
My mom may have called Free Geek back in the year 2000 or so. Back in that year or around that time, a van came to our trailer in Forest Grove. They picked up some of our electronics, so that they could recycle our junk. Some of the people were children around 8 to 16 years old and there may have been a woman and other adults. It may have been a family. They may have been volunteers of Free Geek or another organization.
After flying from my second college in West Virginia to my home in Oregon in early May 2007, I think my mother insisted that I hop on a bus heading to Portland, Oregon. Before leaving my college in West Virginia, I bought a laptop for $50 from my friend Matt Manehan. He could have asked for $2,000. It was a good laptop. I looked up the address for Free Geek. I would try to find wifi at the Pacific University and library and I was able to find free wifi while in my room in my trailer that I was raised in, you know, in Forest Grove.
When I made it to Portland, I got lost because I was kind of going the wrong direction and it was hot sunny day, but I made it and took a tour and eventually began volunteering and going through their programs. You learn how to recycle and take apart computers, printers, and other electronics. Later, I began learning how to build computers. The 5 computer you can take home with you for free.
In June, I went to Camp Kuratli to be a Wilderness Counselor. After that, I attended my first Western Youth Institute (WYI) at the Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California USA, and WYI is a week-long young-adults retreat for those associate with The Salvation Army.
During the second or so week of August 2007, I started returning to Free Geek, and one day, as I was going there, as I was walking, Lincoln Hawk called my cell phone (which was my first mobile phone ever that I got May 2007, which was my sisters or Jesse's or my dad's or Savannah Larson, or somebody). I never gave him my number. I met Lincoln at WYI. That was the first WYI I ever attended. I also attended WYI in 2008 and 2010 at Camp Arnold in Washington (state) USA.
Lincoln suggested that I call Rob Noland. I had an application to apply for Revolution Hawaii but I already threw that away. I ended up filling out an application on my laptop. I talked to Rob on the phone. I emailed Rob the application. The deadline was already passed. The team members are suppose to fly to Hawaii in the next 3 or so days. I was accepted on like a Wednesday and I made it into Hawaii Friday, which was like the 31st of August 2007. Rob told me that he wouldn't have let Crazy Oatmeal join RevHI but Joey Arnold could. When I talked to Rob on the phone, Rob was only able to hear the voice of Joey. I did not talk to Rob at WYI, except to compare him to pancakes and apple-sauce, or something, which he thought was crazy that I do things like that.
While I was in Hawaii, I sent a letter to Free Geek.
In October or so of 2008, when I started going back to Free Geek, they told me that they got my letter. I was kind of popular. I could not tell how they felt about it, since most of them seem to be not Christians. I eventually made my 5th box that I was able to take home. Like the next year or so, I made a second take-home box that I was able to take home as well. I think I only took home only 2 computers. You are allowed to take home one computer per twelve months. I met people here that are interesting people. You can get free coffee, bread, snacks, here, as well. You can learn many things here.
They do not use Microsoft Windows here.
They use Linux's Ubuntu (Operating-System: OS).
May 2007
22 years old
Freek Geek: Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Friday, May 4, 2007
To Save My Mother
To Save My Mother
I am always thinking about my mother. My father was having affairs, for decades, and he was leaving her and living other places. After my one year at my second college, the Appalachian Bible College in Bradley, West Virginia USA, 2006 - 2007, I returned back to the same trailer that I was born and raised in, which is at Rose Grove "Ghetto" Mobile Trailer Park Community: 3839 Pacific Avenue Space Unit # 163 in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, United States of northern America.
I gave my mother the money (almost $2,000 USD) that I earn from the Camp Kuratli during that summer of the year 2007, when I was 22 years old. I was there to save the life of my mother (Marilyn Mitchell of Restore Main Street).
I promised to stay with my mom for at least a year, so that I could support her. I felt conflicted when I saw the opportunity to do Revolution Hawaii. I told my mother about my conflict and I said that I would still honor my commitment to her, but she told me that she would be fine. So, I ended up doing Revolution Hawaii after getting the blessing and approval of my mother.
My mom reunited with her high school friend, Bill Williams Cunningham, and they moved all of her things to his house in Shelton, Washington, United States. My dad helped carry things out of the house. My dad ended up living there after my mom moved out. My dad still lives there. My mom marries Bill in November of 2008. I walked her down the aisle. Bill died in 2011 I think. My mom married Larry Mitchell in 2012. I was not there for that.
2007
22 years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Boring, Oregon, United States
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Joey Arnold
I am always thinking about my mother. My father was having affairs, for decades, and he was leaving her and living other places. After my one year at my second college, the Appalachian Bible College in Bradley, West Virginia USA, 2006 - 2007, I returned back to the same trailer that I was born and raised in, which is at Rose Grove "Ghetto" Mobile Trailer Park Community: 3839 Pacific Avenue Space Unit # 163 in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, United States of northern America.
I gave my mother the money (almost $2,000 USD) that I earn from the Camp Kuratli during that summer of the year 2007, when I was 22 years old. I was there to save the life of my mother (Marilyn Mitchell of Restore Main Street).
I promised to stay with my mom for at least a year, so that I could support her. I felt conflicted when I saw the opportunity to do Revolution Hawaii. I told my mother about my conflict and I said that I would still honor my commitment to her, but she told me that she would be fine. So, I ended up doing Revolution Hawaii after getting the blessing and approval of my mother.
My mom reunited with her high school friend, Bill Williams Cunningham, and they moved all of her things to his house in Shelton, Washington, United States. My dad helped carry things out of the house. My dad ended up living there after my mom moved out. My dad still lives there. My mom marries Bill in November of 2008. I walked her down the aisle. Bill died in 2011 I think. My mom married Larry Mitchell in 2012. I was not there for that.
2007
22 years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Boring, Oregon, United States
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Joey Arnold
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Appalachian Bible College
Appalachian Bible College
I started attending the Appalachian Bible College (ABC) in Bradley, West Virginia, United States, in August 2006 when I was 21 years old. I met many inspirational friends like Sawyer Frye and Jen Moore and others. I loved my classes. I major in Pastoral Greek. I worked in the cafeteria, in food-prep, server, dishwasher,& maintenance. I worried about the money, the finances. I took out my one and only student Stafford loan in November or December of 2006 and I am still paying that back in the year 2013 still. It was my only loan so far. I started getting bad grades, due to increasing accelerating distractions. I started thinking about my mother as well, since my dad was leaving her and my mom needed help and I wanted to help her.
August 2006
21 years old
Bradley, West Virginia, United States
Joey Arnold
I started attending the Appalachian Bible College (ABC) in Bradley, West Virginia, United States, in August 2006 when I was 21 years old. I met many inspirational friends like Sawyer Frye and Jen Moore and others. I loved my classes. I major in Pastoral Greek. I worked in the cafeteria, in food-prep, server, dishwasher,& maintenance. I worried about the money, the finances. I took out my one and only student Stafford loan in November or December of 2006 and I am still paying that back in the year 2013 still. It was my only loan so far. I started getting bad grades, due to increasing accelerating distractions. I started thinking about my mother as well, since my dad was leaving her and my mom needed help and I wanted to help her.
August 2006
21 years old
Bradley, West Virginia, United States
Joey Arnold
Thursday, January 1, 2004
Pocketball
Pocketball.
When I was 19 years old, in 2004, during my last year at the Forest Grove High School, home of the Vikings, for my required Senior Project, I invented a game, a sport, that is like pool with pool balls, similar to carpetball (gutterball), and I named it Pocketball. My church friend Paul Walker served as my so-called mentor, mostly to get me out to around Banks, Oregon USA to the farm house of the Hoefts out in the countries where we spent weeks constructing a 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 4 feet high of a table made of wood. I was taught about how to use power tools for screws and for cutting wood. I also had experience in wood construction from my Woods 1 & 2 classes in high school. I also had a welding class back in ninth grade in the year 2000.
I donated this Pocketball table to my Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon. The pastor was Bill Gasser. They kept the table downstairs in a room near the youth group rooms so that the children and youth can play it. They kept the table there for several years. i am not sure what they did with it.
January, 2004
19 years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
When I was 19 years old, in 2004, during my last year at the Forest Grove High School, home of the Vikings, for my required Senior Project, I invented a game, a sport, that is like pool with pool balls, similar to carpetball (gutterball), and I named it Pocketball. My church friend Paul Walker served as my so-called mentor, mostly to get me out to around Banks, Oregon USA to the farm house of the Hoefts out in the countries where we spent weeks constructing a 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 4 feet high of a table made of wood. I was taught about how to use power tools for screws and for cutting wood. I also had experience in wood construction from my Woods 1 & 2 classes in high school. I also had a welding class back in ninth grade in the year 2000.
I donated this Pocketball table to my Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon. The pastor was Bill Gasser. They kept the table downstairs in a room near the youth group rooms so that the children and youth can play it. They kept the table there for several years. i am not sure what they did with it.
January, 2004
19 years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
Friday, December 26, 2003
But You Are Not Blood
But You Are Not Blood.
My aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim Williams, visit the parents of Karen annually in December for a weekend, usually between Christmas and the New Years. I am not sure when I first knew this, but I think that in 2003, when I was 18 years old, I asked my mom if she could ask her sister Karen if I could tag along.
I went with them twice I believe. I went like in 2003 and 2004 or something like that. Two different years. My aunt and uncle lived in Warrenton, Oregon USA. They drove a few hours to Forest Grove to pick me up. We drive a few hours to Roseburg.
My aunt Karen Williams is the sister of my mom. Their mom died when my mom was about 20 years old. We went to Roseburg to see my mom's dad, Richard "Dick" Erwin Morehead and his new wife "Skip" who kind of talked snobby and proudful about her ancestors or something like that. She kind of wispered that one of her relatives or ancestors may have a labourer, but she'd be ashamed of that. I made a joke, and was serious, at the dinner table, and said to Skip that she is not blood.
Me, Karen, & Jim went back into the car, & Jim was proud of what I said and he would tell others about it. It is something that Jim would say to until he died in August 2008. We were back in the car to see Jim's relatives, which I liked more than my own.
December 2003
18 years old
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
My aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim Williams, visit the parents of Karen annually in December for a weekend, usually between Christmas and the New Years. I am not sure when I first knew this, but I think that in 2003, when I was 18 years old, I asked my mom if she could ask her sister Karen if I could tag along.
I went with them twice I believe. I went like in 2003 and 2004 or something like that. Two different years. My aunt and uncle lived in Warrenton, Oregon USA. They drove a few hours to Forest Grove to pick me up. We drive a few hours to Roseburg.
My aunt Karen Williams is the sister of my mom. Their mom died when my mom was about 20 years old. We went to Roseburg to see my mom's dad, Richard "Dick" Erwin Morehead and his new wife "Skip" who kind of talked snobby and proudful about her ancestors or something like that. She kind of wispered that one of her relatives or ancestors may have a labourer, but she'd be ashamed of that. I made a joke, and was serious, at the dinner table, and said to Skip that she is not blood.
Me, Karen, & Jim went back into the car, & Jim was proud of what I said and he would tell others about it. It is something that Jim would say to until he died in August 2008. We were back in the car to see Jim's relatives, which I liked more than my own.
December 2003
18 years old
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
LOTR: Lord Of The Rings
When I stayed my one and only night at the house of Matt Dooney and Jim Westberry, while Matt was possibly not there, I watched the first two Lord Of The Rings films (LOTR) for the first time ever back to back. Afterwards, I was so interested in seeing the 3rd film.
I saw these films one day in like July 2003, and then I had to wait until Wednesday, the 17th of December 2003, or some time after that for when the LOTR III: Return of the King which was a very long cinema blockbuster film that led me in tears of emotions of joy and sadness and it I kept on thinking it was going to end when I was watching it in the cinema in December 2003.
I like LOTR almost as much as Star Wars and Star Trek and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mario and Sonic and Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan and Tony Hawk and Sim City and Christ and other things.
I saw these films one day in like July 2003, and then I had to wait until Wednesday, the 17th of December 2003, or some time after that for when the LOTR III: Return of the King which was a very long cinema blockbuster film that led me in tears of emotions of joy and sadness and it I kept on thinking it was going to end when I was watching it in the cinema in December 2003.
I like LOTR almost as much as Star Wars and Star Trek and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mario and Sonic and Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan and Tony Hawk and Sim City and Christ and other things.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Economics Class
Economics Class.
When my favorite classes at my one and only Forest Grove High School (FGHS) on 1401 Nichols Lane, in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States, was my Economics Class where I was able to officially meet high school president African-American Kari Herinckx. She taught us to Mix It Up. Try new things. Sit with different people during lunch. Meet new people. I typed out an Encouragement Article (EA) for her. I said that she has chocolate noodle hair.
In the Economics Class, we learned about the supply and demand grid. I previously took a Marketing Class with Mr. Kunkel, which has model friend Katie Dober in it.
September, 2003
Forest Grove High School
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
When my favorite classes at my one and only Forest Grove High School (FGHS) on 1401 Nichols Lane, in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States, was my Economics Class where I was able to officially meet high school president African-American Kari Herinckx. She taught us to Mix It Up. Try new things. Sit with different people during lunch. Meet new people. I typed out an Encouragement Article (EA) for her. I said that she has chocolate noodle hair.
In the Economics Class, we learned about the supply and demand grid. I previously took a Marketing Class with Mr. Kunkel, which has model friend Katie Dober in it.
September, 2003
Forest Grove High School
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
Saturday, April 5, 2003
Tiffany Died
I first met TIffany Rochell Cumbo (TRC) when I was about 5 years old in the year of 1990. She lived 7 houses from our trailer, and we were friends for 13 years.
Around 1998, her and her family moved to Cornelius and then to Gaston, and to possible other places, which I lost contact with her as she moved out of the neighborhood, but we reunited in 2001 and me & Bill Bailey would talk to her in person or on the phone sometimes.
Tiff may have attended my high school briefly, but then went to another high school, but I think she returned for the 2nd semester, in January 2003, which means I started seeing her again at school, which put a smile to my face.
I was looking forward to the summer of 2003 where me, Bill Bailey, and Tiffany Cumbo, were going to have adventures, or at least that was what I was hoping for. I wanted to marry Tiffany when I was eight and nine years old. I drew pictures about it, but then Tiffany started having "Other Boy Friends" with friends and neighbors like Bryan (who lived next door to me, space 164), and Juya Sa, the brother of Bhakti, who also lived next door, and Bill Bailey, and others.
My mother may have heard of some typical jealousy schemes that Tiffany was cooking with her friends, instead of being in school, at Mary's Kitchen, on Tuesday, the 1st of April of 2003, the April's Fool Day holiday. Tiffany may have been mad at her current boy friend or ex, or with friends, neighbors, class-mates, enemies, and they may have had a plan to get even with them, but I was not there and I really have no idea what was going on.
Friday, the the 4th of April, I high fived Tiff in the hallway around 1 PM as lunch was ending. That week, or that year at school, I talked to the short Tiff about her guitar, skateboard, Avril Lavigne like punk goth outfits, where she lived, and I would call her sometimes, and I was going to hang out with her more, go take a walk with her, but we seem to have schedule conflicts or I was not certain if I should bend my schedule to make something work.
That Friday night, I thought about calling her but I was instead rehearsing my lines for my church play for Sunday.
On Sunday night, the 6th of April 2003, I got praise for my partially impromptu performance during the church play that I and the youth group did, at the Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
Monday morning, the loud-speaker announced, during the beginning of the 7:55 AM art class that I was in, that Tiffany died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
I am not sure how she died.
It may have been Tylenol overdose.
It may have been drugs.
It may have been an infected scar below one of her eyes.
It may have been any of those combinations.
I encouraged people as I spoke at her funeral that year.
Around 1998, her and her family moved to Cornelius and then to Gaston, and to possible other places, which I lost contact with her as she moved out of the neighborhood, but we reunited in 2001 and me & Bill Bailey would talk to her in person or on the phone sometimes.
Tiff may have attended my high school briefly, but then went to another high school, but I think she returned for the 2nd semester, in January 2003, which means I started seeing her again at school, which put a smile to my face.
I was looking forward to the summer of 2003 where me, Bill Bailey, and Tiffany Cumbo, were going to have adventures, or at least that was what I was hoping for. I wanted to marry Tiffany when I was eight and nine years old. I drew pictures about it, but then Tiffany started having "Other Boy Friends" with friends and neighbors like Bryan (who lived next door to me, space 164), and Juya Sa, the brother of Bhakti, who also lived next door, and Bill Bailey, and others.
My mother may have heard of some typical jealousy schemes that Tiffany was cooking with her friends, instead of being in school, at Mary's Kitchen, on Tuesday, the 1st of April of 2003, the April's Fool Day holiday. Tiffany may have been mad at her current boy friend or ex, or with friends, neighbors, class-mates, enemies, and they may have had a plan to get even with them, but I was not there and I really have no idea what was going on.
Friday, the the 4th of April, I high fived Tiff in the hallway around 1 PM as lunch was ending. That week, or that year at school, I talked to the short Tiff about her guitar, skateboard, Avril Lavigne like punk goth outfits, where she lived, and I would call her sometimes, and I was going to hang out with her more, go take a walk with her, but we seem to have schedule conflicts or I was not certain if I should bend my schedule to make something work.
That Friday night, I thought about calling her but I was instead rehearsing my lines for my church play for Sunday.
On Sunday night, the 6th of April 2003, I got praise for my partially impromptu performance during the church play that I and the youth group did, at the Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
Monday morning, the loud-speaker announced, during the beginning of the 7:55 AM art class that I was in, that Tiffany died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
I am not sure how she died.
It may have been Tylenol overdose.
It may have been drugs.
It may have been an infected scar below one of her eyes.
It may have been any of those combinations.
I encouraged people as I spoke at her funeral that year.
Thursday, September 12, 2002
Junior Year of High School
I was home schooled until I was 15 years old in 2000 when I started attending the public Forest Grove High School (FGHS) in Forest Grove (FG)), Oregon (OR), United States of America (USA).
The older I get, the older I get. The older I get, the older I feel.
When my junior year of high school came along, I was feeling even older and more outgoing. For English 11, I had Mrs. Bennett, where I was able to sit next to the hot beautiful Katie Dober, who may have did gymnastics with my older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, or it is like Dober's aunt (who works at our high school, where we were able to see her) or relative who knows my sister as well.
I started going to school dances on Friday nights for the first time in my life.
The older I get, the older I get. The older I get, the older I feel.
When my junior year of high school came along, I was feeling even older and more outgoing. For English 11, I had Mrs. Bennett, where I was able to sit next to the hot beautiful Katie Dober, who may have did gymnastics with my older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, or it is like Dober's aunt (who works at our high school, where we were able to see her) or relative who knows my sister as well.
I started going to school dances on Friday nights for the first time in my life.
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
Woof, Tyler, Rick, Williams, at the Beach
Woof, Tyler, Rick, Williams, at the Beach.
This was our last family reunion of this exact chemistry and size. This was during the summer of the year 2002. Almost every year, our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim "The Woof" Williams, would pick a lucky member or two or more of the Arnold family and take them off to their house in Warrenton, Oregon, United States, which is near the Pacific Ocean, the beach, Seaside, Astoria, Tillamook.
We have some of this recorded on my then camcorder. I let Tyler play with my frog. Tyler is the son of my cousin, Nathan Williams. My Aunt Karen Williams is the sister of my mom. My dad played basketball with my Uncle Jim "The Woof" Williams in high school in southern Oregon and at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon United States. Nathan and Alan Williams are the two only sons of Karen and Jim.
4th of July, 2002
Warrenton, Seaside, the beach, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
This was our last family reunion of this exact chemistry and size. This was during the summer of the year 2002. Almost every year, our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim "The Woof" Williams, would pick a lucky member or two or more of the Arnold family and take them off to their house in Warrenton, Oregon, United States, which is near the Pacific Ocean, the beach, Seaside, Astoria, Tillamook.
We have some of this recorded on my then camcorder. I let Tyler play with my frog. Tyler is the son of my cousin, Nathan Williams. My Aunt Karen Williams is the sister of my mom. My dad played basketball with my Uncle Jim "The Woof" Williams in high school in southern Oregon and at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon United States. Nathan and Alan Williams are the two only sons of Karen and Jim.
4th of July, 2002
Warrenton, Seaside, the beach, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
Saturday, June 1, 2002
Kim Possible
At the house of the Sprietler family, I first glimpsed the cartoon TV show on Disney that is called Kim Possible in the year of 2002.
Kelly Clarson won the first American Idol that summer of 2002.
I became friends with my church friends Joe, Alicia, Bethany, father Joe, and the mother, Sprietler, who lived outside of Forest Grove, Oregon USA.
They went to the church True Hope Fellowship in Forest Grove, Oregon USA, which my mother attended from around the years of 2000 until 2007 or so. Prior to that, my mother was mainly attending the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA from around the years of 1983 or so until around the years of 2000 or so.
The youth group at True Hope was called Stand, or 180, I think.
I inspired the guitar playing youth pastor of this group, who ended up going to another church a few years or so after 2002. The Sprietlers must have followed him to this new church, or they disappeared to say the least and I have not seem them in years.
Kelly Clarson won the first American Idol that summer of 2002.
I became friends with my church friends Joe, Alicia, Bethany, father Joe, and the mother, Sprietler, who lived outside of Forest Grove, Oregon USA.
They went to the church True Hope Fellowship in Forest Grove, Oregon USA, which my mother attended from around the years of 2000 until 2007 or so. Prior to that, my mother was mainly attending the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA from around the years of 1983 or so until around the years of 2000 or so.
The youth group at True Hope was called Stand, or 180, I think.
I inspired the guitar playing youth pastor of this group, who ended up going to another church a few years or so after 2002. The Sprietlers must have followed him to this new church, or they disappeared to say the least and I have not seem them in years.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Mexican Concert At My High School
Mexican Concert At My High School.
In the year 2002, when I was 17 years old, during the second half of my Sophomore year (grade 10: 2001 - 2002) at my one and only Forest Grove High School at 1401 Nichols Lane: Forest Grove, Oregon USA, and since I was attending a Spanish class, I was able to go to a Mexican Concert in the auditorium at our high school one day. It may have been around March 2002.
I liked some of the music. Some of it sounded familiar or likeable. Some of it was not my thing. We tried out new foods. I went on to take Spanish 2 but I think I failed or almost failed this second Spanish course during I think my Junior year.
March 2002
17 years old
Forest Grove High School: 1401 Nichols Lane: Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
In the year 2002, when I was 17 years old, during the second half of my Sophomore year (grade 10: 2001 - 2002) at my one and only Forest Grove High School at 1401 Nichols Lane: Forest Grove, Oregon USA, and since I was attending a Spanish class, I was able to go to a Mexican Concert in the auditorium at our high school one day. It may have been around March 2002.
I liked some of the music. Some of it sounded familiar or likeable. Some of it was not my thing. We tried out new foods. I went on to take Spanish 2 but I think I failed or almost failed this second Spanish course during I think my Junior year.
March 2002
17 years old
Forest Grove High School: 1401 Nichols Lane: Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal
Friday, August 17, 2001
Rediscovering Tiffany
Rediscovering Tiffany.
In 2001, when I was 16 years old, me and Bill Bailey decided to look for our childhood friend, Tiffany Cumbo. I first met her in 1990. We have not seen her since she and her family moved some years back. We looked in the yellow pages which has last names, addresses, and phone numbers. It may have taken a few days but we found her during the 2nd or so week of August 2001 I think.
I had my camcorder. I recorded our time that day, since it was an interesting reunion that I will not forget. It was the last time I caught her on my camcorder, but it turned out that the video was not working, and so you cannot see her or anyone on those VHS video-cassette tapes from 2001, since the camcorder had a broken video door. I would use duct tape to keep it close.
I was 16 years old when I found her again.
She was 16 when I lost her again, that is when she died in 2003.
August 2001
16 years
Cornelius, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
In 2001, when I was 16 years old, me and Bill Bailey decided to look for our childhood friend, Tiffany Cumbo. I first met her in 1990. We have not seen her since she and her family moved some years back. We looked in the yellow pages which has last names, addresses, and phone numbers. It may have taken a few days but we found her during the 2nd or so week of August 2001 I think.
I had my camcorder. I recorded our time that day, since it was an interesting reunion that I will not forget. It was the last time I caught her on my camcorder, but it turned out that the video was not working, and so you cannot see her or anyone on those VHS video-cassette tapes from 2001, since the camcorder had a broken video door. I would use duct tape to keep it close.
I was 16 years old when I found her again.
She was 16 when I lost her again, that is when she died in 2003.
August 2001
16 years
Cornelius, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
Friday, June 1, 2001
Cat's Life
I filmed the TV series called "The Cat's Life" which is a documentary fantasy home-video series that star our kittens as they go on a quest to find their mother, like a reverse of Finding Nemo and Saving Private Ryan.
Friday, February 11, 2000
I Want It & I Want It Now
In 2000, I made an hour-long stop-motion toys and stuff animal featuring Arnold Attic 163 feature presentation film called "I Want It & I Want It Now" which stars my pet guinea-pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto, which is not to be confused with his girl-friend, the former Oreo whom I accidentally smashed by sleeping on her (my guinea-pig friend) after sleeping with her.
This live-action film is about a father, Ra Ra, and his relationship with his rebellious teenager son, who is played by action-figure 9-year old Anakin Skywalker (the Phantom Menace version of Vader).
Anakin struggles with the mysterious disappearance of his own mother, Miss Piggy, when he was only 3 years old. In real-life, my mother was hit by a car when I was 3 years old, and she almost died.
Anakin did home-schooling until he was 15 years old, when he demanded that he attends public high school, as I actually did in real life.
Ra Ra objects that they teach God-cursing evolution in public schools. Skywalker turns and says something like, "But where was God when mother was taken by the Rick Arnold Hand monster, which stars a fifth-grade school-photo of my one and only older brother with the same name, Rick Arnold.
The disappearance was still semi-mysterious since they knew nothing about the hand monster.
Skywalker gets picked by some local bullies, but Ra Ra comes to sort of save the day by making a dare. They made fun of them, saying that God is not real and that Ra Ra has no brains to believe in organized religion.
Ra Ra answers, if God is real then it will rain here, and then clouds started arriving. At the first drop, Ra Ra poops his pants that he doesn't actually own.
The stuff-animals all asked Christ to save them, as the Christian music rolls them all into a theoretical sunset that you cannot see but can certainly feel if Jesus is your home-boy.
This live-action film is about a father, Ra Ra, and his relationship with his rebellious teenager son, who is played by action-figure 9-year old Anakin Skywalker (the Phantom Menace version of Vader).
Anakin struggles with the mysterious disappearance of his own mother, Miss Piggy, when he was only 3 years old. In real-life, my mother was hit by a car when I was 3 years old, and she almost died.
Anakin did home-schooling until he was 15 years old, when he demanded that he attends public high school, as I actually did in real life.
Ra Ra objects that they teach God-cursing evolution in public schools. Skywalker turns and says something like, "But where was God when mother was taken by the Rick Arnold Hand monster, which stars a fifth-grade school-photo of my one and only older brother with the same name, Rick Arnold.
The disappearance was still semi-mysterious since they knew nothing about the hand monster.
Skywalker gets picked by some local bullies, but Ra Ra comes to sort of save the day by making a dare. They made fun of them, saying that God is not real and that Ra Ra has no brains to believe in organized religion.
Ra Ra answers, if God is real then it will rain here, and then clouds started arriving. At the first drop, Ra Ra poops his pants that he doesn't actually own.
The stuff-animals all asked Christ to save them, as the Christian music rolls them all into a theoretical sunset that you cannot see but can certainly feel if Jesus is your home-boy.
Friday, December 31, 1999
Sim City Millennium New Years
Sim City Millennium New Years
I missed the Millennium New Years of the year 2000 while playing Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) based video-game Sim City, which was made in 1995 for the SNES.
I use to see cousin Nathan Williams play this game at their house in Warrenton, Oregon USA. Nathan is the son of my mother's sister. Nathan would use cheat codes that would give him millions of dollars for building super cities of all your heart desires.
On December 31st (of the year 1999, I believe), I was playing Sim City. I was going to stop so I could count down into the next millennium , but I lost track of the time and it already a new century and millennium and year.
I comedically thought, and may have said something like, "Oh well, I guess I have wait until next year, or I mean until next decade, or I mean next century, or next millennium, and then I will be ready."
I missed the Millennium New Years of the year 2000 while playing Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) based video-game Sim City, which was made in 1995 for the SNES.
I use to see cousin Nathan Williams play this game at their house in Warrenton, Oregon USA. Nathan is the son of my mother's sister. Nathan would use cheat codes that would give him millions of dollars for building super cities of all your heart desires.
On December 31st (of the year 1999, I believe), I was playing Sim City. I was going to stop so I could count down into the next millennium , but I lost track of the time and it already a new century and millennium and year.
I comedically thought, and may have said something like, "Oh well, I guess I have wait until next year, or I mean until next decade, or I mean next century, or next millennium, and then I will be ready."
Thursday, June 10, 1999
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Here are some SPOILER ALERTS from the film STAR WARS I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. I may spoil and reveal secrets and plot points in this film, in case you have not seen it or something.
When I was 14 years old in the year 1999, I saw the film Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in the cinema a few times and did not realize at first that Darth Maul was sliced in half.
When I was 14 years old in the year 1999, I saw the film Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in the cinema a few times and did not realize at first that Darth Maul was sliced in half.
Thursday, June 3, 1999
Cool Kid in 1999
Cool Kid in 1999.
I was playing basketball at our park, which is a few houses from my house, or I mean trailer. This is in my neighborhood, the Rose Grove, in Forest Grove, Oregon USA. I was playing with white-skin Randy, Joe, and brown-skin Hispanic Elder. It started raining. I slid in the rain with my sneakers but I made some shots. They would call me kid. They would see me do things and they would say cool. I was a kid. I was cool. You put the two words together and that is what they started calling me. Either Randy or Elder named me the Cool Kid. Later I would have other nicknames like Ghetto Joe, Joe Dirt, Tweety, Joe Cool. Randy, his brother Joe, and Elder did drugs sometimes. They may have went to jail a few times, or I am not sure.
June 1999
14 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
I was playing basketball at our park, which is a few houses from my house, or I mean trailer. This is in my neighborhood, the Rose Grove, in Forest Grove, Oregon USA. I was playing with white-skin Randy, Joe, and brown-skin Hispanic Elder. It started raining. I slid in the rain with my sneakers but I made some shots. They would call me kid. They would see me do things and they would say cool. I was a kid. I was cool. You put the two words together and that is what they started calling me. Either Randy or Elder named me the Cool Kid. Later I would have other nicknames like Ghetto Joe, Joe Dirt, Tweety, Joe Cool. Randy, his brother Joe, and Elder did drugs sometimes. They may have went to jail a few times, or I am not sure.
June 1999
14 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
Friday, June 5, 1998
Best Friends 1998
Best Friends 1998.
This may have been the first year that I started making the Best Friends posters, which included pictures that I drew of people, friends, family members, that I have met in person, and it included characters from Star Wars, the Power Rangers, and the Lion King. I would basically make it look like a group photo, like as if I could get all these people to be in a picture together. I think I made one for the years of 1999 and 2000 but I may have stopped after that. I may have only made 3 of these posters, just for those 3 years.
1998
13 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
This may have been the first year that I started making the Best Friends posters, which included pictures that I drew of people, friends, family members, that I have met in person, and it included characters from Star Wars, the Power Rangers, and the Lion King. I would basically make it look like a group photo, like as if I could get all these people to be in a picture together. I think I made one for the years of 1999 and 2000 but I may have stopped after that. I may have only made 3 of these posters, just for those 3 years.
1998
13 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold
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