I trust your wife is in good health. (That's how my sister says I should start letters. Only she calls 'em "missives" -- what's that all about?)

We had to write a book report for school, so I did mine on issue 14 of Fightin' Mac Spade. It's my favorite one coz it's the first appearance of The Monkey Duo. Mrs. Castaneda said that wasn't appropriate material for a book report and gave me a D. She's just jealous coz all the books she has to read are really boring! I bet she's never even heard of The Ancient Ninjas!

My buddies and I joined an after-school Hunt the Monopod team. Oh, I think you call it "rollerball" over there, is that right? How confusing. Anyway, my mom says I spend way too much time playing video games (I like Dragon Pirate 9 the best), so I have to play outside so I don't get fat. Whatever! I only weigh 2500 candygrams. I'm not sure how that converts to whatever weight you guys use.

My dad went a little crazy last night and painted my whole room puce. And I mean the *whole* room. So now my sheets are all stiff and everything smells like wet paint. Do you know how to get paint off of a video game? I'm seriously jonesing without my Zombie Effect 7 -- I mean, I just unlocked the variant Amber Mount before all this happened!

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