Renee

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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 4:00pm

Let's Mike know that I got on Victor about his e-mails. He was doing so well making conversations that I gave him a little slack about reading it before he sent them and he took it too far. He's going to apologize to Mike tonight for annoying him.


FYI... I'm SO proud of Mike for telling Victor that he didn't appreciate the spam e-mail and he needed to knock it off. :)


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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 5:50pm

Hey guys, I was wondering, could Chris join the emailing thing with your kids?

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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 6:31pm

I got no problem with it. Email me at whitegraice@yahoo.com and I'll add Chris's e-mail to Vic's address book. Victor's gotten a little too excited having friends on line and is being a bit of a butt right now, however we're working on it.


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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 7:23pm

lol I can imagine Chris getting too excited also, so no worries over hear.

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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 8:15pm

Alexis,

I didn't even realize they were still emailing until a few days ago when I saw Mike checking his email. He hadn't checked his email in a long time and I thought they had totally fell out of touch.

Are you sure it was spam? Mike is really confused about all that stuff and often what "annoys" him is really normal stuff. He has gotten a lot of information and terminology from school about computers but most of it he really doesn't understand. I hope he didn't hurt Vic's feelings.

Renee

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Thu, 04-17-2008 - 9:05pm

I checked the e-mail when I read Mike's response. Victor called Mike a chicken. Now Victor meant that by chicken is frozen, another word for Frozen is cool so he was calling Mike cool. I told him to write Mike a response that he didn't mean it to be mean that he meant it to be that way.


I understand that Mike doesn't get it either but no, this time Vic was in the wrong. Victor was upset when I explained Mike's response, but he was upset at the fact that he had upset Mike.


It's a learning experience for the boys. As long as they take it with a grain of salt like they seem to be. Victor has developed a lot over the last year and I think he's little too exuberant at times. It's all good.


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Fri, 04-18-2008 - 12:22am

MY BAD! I figured out what Mike meant about the spamming. Victor was typing ! over and over and instead of saying COOL. he would type CCCCCOOOOOLLLLL. That could be what Mike is talking about as far as spamming. I thought it was because Victor was just sending goofy e-mails.


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Fri, 04-18-2008 - 1:42am

I tried asking Mike what he thought was spamming. He said they were when someone sends a bunch of random emails that doesn't mean anything. Mike uses the term "random" alot and doesn't really know what that means either so it could be what you said. I think Mike didn't understand what Vic was trying to say and so he thought it didn't mean anything.

I explained to him that Vic was probably trying to be friends with him and didn't know what to say. I did tell Mike that Vic was AS too and so maybe he had a hard time knowing what to say but was trying to be friends. Mike did a great big OHHHHHHH.

So Mike and I talked about some things he could write about that may interest Vic and they can have a conversation. Mike's latest obsession is shadow the hedgehog and similar video games (sonic, mario bros, etc). SO I told him to maybe write about that to Vic. He did seem interested adn then flaked on me and wandered off. HOpefully!

Mike had been going on this one board a kid from school had him interested in. It was completely dedicated to sonic, etc. I can't tell you how many times he nearly got banned from there for being odd and saying things completely off that ticked people off. One of the worst was accusing people of spamming or getting all RULE man on them but not really understanding the rules and thus breaking them himself. We finally but an end to it and bannished him from it for a while (plus we don't like the "friend" who got him started on that.

I will talk to him tomorrow about the "Cool" stuff and see if that is part of it.

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