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Saturday, 1-24-2004: Did a lot of nothing all day. I don’t have the kids all weekend so I’m bored. I worked on my bathroom a lot, something I’ve been neglecting for a few years. Finished up a wall and ripped out the old wall. Tonight me and Tricia went to see Rent at the Fox Theater in St. Louis which was good, but would have been better if we were sitting closer. Next time we spring for good seats. Sunday, 1-25-2004: During the night there was an ice storm so everything outside is covered with a sheet of ice. It took me 15 minutes to get the ice off my car windows so I could go get a McGriddle. I stayed in pretty much all day after that, doing a lot of updating and fixing of phonelosers.org, mostly to the links page. In the afternoon I went to pick up Tricia from work which meant another 15 minutes of chopping the ice off my windows since it’s been raining all day. We went by Taco Bell for some supper and I snapped a picture of the manager after he gave me my food. Here’s the picture:
 Wednesday, 1-28-2004: Emily got out of school early today. Neither me or Colleen knew about it because the previous 2 days were snow days. So Emily was put into the after school program and I picked her up an hour later. Me, her and Casey went sledding for a few minutes at Vanprater Park, then came back home. Thursday, 1-29-2004: After work, I set up a streaming PLA radio thing to play pranks on. Went to Tricia’s and we made a cardboard box car for Jordyn. Then I drove to Brighton to see what cars were parked at Zach Peters house. None. I ended up getting slightly lost and went to Jerseyville first. Today I did a lot of phone searching for Zach. I’m trying to figure out where he’s working. I took Purry to the vet today to have his tail looked at. He got into a fight with something. They recommended it be chopped off! So I’m going to pick him up tomorrow and he won’t have a tail. Friday, 1-30-2004: Picked up the kids from school and took them sledding. Payton only rode down the hill once and I think Emily did 2 or 3 times. It was freezing out but I wanted to take them since tomorrow is supposed to be even colder. We had pizza for supper with Tricia and Jordyn. Saturday, 1-31-2004: Stayed home all day with the kids. Bonnie brought Christian over around 10:30am or so and I kept him all day & night. We also had Ryan over a lot during the day and Jordyn, Chelse and Keirstan. So the house was pretty full and noisy. Gina stopped by to pick up a computer and drop off her own.
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Friday, 1-23-2004: Worked all day, then went to Radio Shack to buy a cellular phone recorder as research for this article I’m working on. On the way back I stopped by Little Caesars and picked up a few orders of Crazy Bread for my supper. Me and Tricia decided to go see a movie. We finally decided on The Butterfly Effect. And wow, what an incredible movie. Definitely the best one I’ve seen this year. Wait, it’s January so that doesn’t work. How about…it’s the most original plot I’ve seen since Being John Malcovich. I haven’t liked a movie this much in several years. I highly recommend it to everyone. After the movie we walked to the ice arena and watched a hockey game for awhile. Then walked home, leaving my car at the theater all night. Hopefully it’ll still be there tomorrow when I go to pick it up.
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Monday, 1-12-2004: There’s this Tampa DJ that has a morning show broadcast in St. Louis which I listen to every morning. Today I woke up to hear him talking shit about ME! They got on the subject of the drive-thru incidents in Michigan where some guy was taking over drive-thru frequencies and screwing with customers and he suddenly starts going off about this guy in Alton that used to harass him. I grabbed my digital voice recorder and held it up to my stereo speaker since that’s the only means I had to quickly record. I posted the clip on Cal’s Forums here. About 2 or 3 years ago, I started listening to this MJ guy. His favorite thing was to call and harass famous people. I thought it’d be funny to try and track down MJ and harass HIM to see how he’d take it. It wasn’t too easy since he didn’t use his real name on the air. But I finally figured it out, tracked him down and started pranking him at home and on his cell phone. He didn’t take it well. But I never realized that he figured out who I was. I thought if he knew me, he would immediately file a lawsuit against me. I did some really terrible things to MJ during that year beside just prank calling. So this was surprising news for me. And it’s pretty flattering for me that he remembers me after 3 years and he’s got copies of my phone bills.
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Sunday, 1-11-2004: I’ve been neglecting this journal lately. Happy 2004! Guess I need to stick all my 2003 entries into an archive page. So let’s see…for Christmas I got a Lowe’s giftcard, some clothes and a MIDI keyboard. I wasn’t expecting the keyboard so that was very cool. I’ve been wanting to buy one for years but I just never got around to it. My kids got pretty much everything they wanted. Nothing that interesting has been happening with me. A couple weekends ago I used all of the money from my Lowe’s giftcard to remodel the living room closet. Put big floor-to-ceiling shelves on one side, painted, etc. On Friday me and Tricia went to the Funny Bone and saw a show by Joe Marlotti. He was funny, but not VERY funny. We’re gonna go back next month when Bobcat Goldthwait is there. I’ve seen his show and it’s hilarious. Before seeing Joe, we went to eat at Ponderosa. I spent all of today and yesterday working on my room - I removed my hidden bookshelf doors and put in a normal door. I did a lot of patching on the walls, installed a 220 volt heater in the wall (I usually turn off the house’s furnace and just heat my own room when the kids aren’t staying with me to save money), fixed parts of the floor that I never got around to finishing from when I moved walls around and put some new (but used) carpet down in bare spots. I’m annoyed at the beautiful weather today because I don’t get to test out my new heater. So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks. It’s exciting to be me.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2004: Tonight around 9pm I’m sitting in my office, at my desk, and the doorbell rings downstairs. I glance up at my front porch monitor and I’m horrified to see a brutal killer standing at the door.   He’s got a cigarette tucked behind his ear, ratty old clothes and he looks fairly pissed off. Have you ever seen the 1990’s movie called Problem Child? Where Michael Richards plays the Bow Tie Killer? This guy is the spitting image of him! Here’s some proof - screen captures from that movie:   I debate on whether I should completely ignore him, talk to him on the intercom or run downstairs and talk to him in person. I finally decide to just let him murder me so I can get it over with. I run down and open the door, ready to quickly slam it shut when he lunges at me. He says to me, “Did you call a cab?”  He says that somebody called a cab and he makes sure that he’s got the right address. I’m relieved to find out that it’s just some kind of mixup. In the picture above you can see my reflection in the door. Look at that fear in my eyes! I notice that the cigarette behind his ear that I saw from upstairs is actually an ink pen. So anyway, we say goodbye and I go back upstairs. About 15 minutes later the doorbell rings again…   The pizza man shows up and rings the bell! It immediately hits me - somebody is fucking with me. I decide not to even go downstairs this time or talk to him on the intercom. He waits on the porch for a few minutes in the rain.  Look at this, the pizza man was picking his nose while he waited for me to answer. I sure wouldn’t want to buy a pizza from a guy who’s picking his nose with one hand while holding my pizzas with the other.  He tries the doorbell again. I fight back the urge to fuck with him on the intercom. I decide against it because I don’t want the poor pizza guy to think that I ordered a pizza for myself just so I could screw with him and not pay for the pizza.    Feeling defeated, the pizza man finally gives up and walks off into the sunset. I wait for more people to show up at my door so that I might talk to them this time on the intercom. But that appears to be the end of it. So I capture the pictures into the computer and post them on Cal’s Forums. In less than 3 minutes, a forum user by the name of zmaster admits that he’s the culprit. He says, “That’s awesome its not often i get porch cam screen shots of my hijinks….and i thought you’d like that triple anchovie pizza….i bet the delivery guy did.” I decided not to release the actual video of this event since it was extremely boring to watch a pizza man stand on my porch picking his nose for 5 minutes.
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