Journal

Below is a year-by-year rundown of how my life has gone so far. Sort of. You can click on the years to view the entire year’s archive. Or you can use the archive options in the left sidebar to get more specific.

• 01/15/2008: Started up a new website – signhacker.com.
  
• 01/17/2008: The dumpster on my street catches on fire.
  
• 02/11/2008: Moved my homepage from brad-carter.com to notla.com.
  
• 02/19/2008: Was accused of being involved in the high-profile kidnapping/murder of Jonbenet Ramsey. (Here’s the PLA writeup on it and then there’s the official Richard Cardo page.)
  
• 03/27/2008: The kids and I went to Idaho for about a week, then Seattle.
  
• 03/19/2008: Tricked a lot of people into taking their toasters apart.
  
• 04/13/2008: Caught up my old friend John Sever.
  
• 07/__/2008: Spent a couple weeks in Illinois.
  
• 08/11/2008: Went to Defcon in Las Vegas.
  
• 08/__/2008: Spent a week in Idaho and the kids rode their first real roller coasters. Then went to PAX in Seattle for the weekend.
  
• 11/10/2008: Participated in my first Flash Mob.

• Jammie visits Albany and we drive up to Seattle for a few days to see her relatives and be tourists.
  
• Some completely random girl on Facebook sets up a group for me, honoring my untimely death.
  
• The kids and I fly to Illinois to see my brother get married.
  
• Impersonated River Phoenix at a Stand By Me festival.
  
• The Spessas visited Albany and we drove to Reno for a few days.
  
• Drove to Idaho and stayed there for about a week.
  
• Bought a cat! The kids named him Charcoal.
  
• Started volunteering at the homeless shelter.
  
• After exactly two years of living on Elm Street, we moved to a new place.

• Visited Jammie in NYC for two weeks.
  
• Jammie visits Albany a few times.
  
• I discover that I really like podcasts and start up PLA Radio.
  
• Spent a few days in Idaho.
  
• Drove to San Francisco, picked up Jammie and drove back.
  
• The Spessas visited me and we launched UFOs into the air.
  
• Spent a few more days in Idaho.
  
• Flew to Illinois with the kids for Christmas at my parents.

Here’s my rundown of how 2005 went…

• I take the kids back to Oregon after Christmas break, get stranded in the airport all night
  
• I fear for my life in a college cafeteria
  
• I spend 3 weeks in Idaho for Spring break.
  
• Drove to Texas to see my best friend get married. And I re-meet an old friend named Jammie.
  
• Got to take care of a farm for a week.
  
• Went to a Galactic Picnic
  
• Picked up the kids for their summer in Illinois
  
• Jammie visits for a weekend
  
• Payton is suddenly over his fear of swimming
  
• The kids and I spend a week in Philadelphia and New York City
  
• Took the kids back to Oregon.
  
• Jammie visits me again.
  
• I take another trip to New York City.
  
• I stick an “I heart Satan” bumper sticker on a religious salesperson’s van.
  
• Tami and I drove to Hannibal, Missouri to visit Mark Twain’s boyhood home.
  
• Flew to Florida to meet Jammie and some other friends at Universal for Halloween Horror Night.
  
• After 8 years of living in Illinois, I moved to Oregon.
  
• Appeared on national television (CNBC) to talk about my anti-Walmart page.

Emily and Allison	I was throwing away some old computers so I gave them to Emily along with a screwdriver and told her to take them apart.	Payton opening birthday presents at Burger King
Mostly a bunch of neighbor kids. And these are just the ones that I could actually get to stand still this day.	After shooting the end of Elephant & Bird, Emily and Tiffany pose for pictures.
Meagan and Emily making snow angels	Ryan, Tiffany and Emily	Brianna, Emily and Meagan

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2000

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Emily and her friend Ryan in front of a big shoe, made of shoes at the City Museum.	Payton, approximately 1 year old.	Me with a Pepsi and a cactus while visiting iamone in Chicago.
Me and Bonnie	Emily and Payton	EvilCal at a bar with me and Colleen.

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1999

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Emily in a tree.	Emily and Casey	Me looking thrilled to have a picture taken.
Emily and Casey	Payton (2 months old) asleep with Loonette and Molly.	Me and Payton (just a few hours old)
Payton on Christmas Eve	Payton and Colleen	Emily and her new brother
Happy after just winning the $1,000,000 lottery

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1998

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June 1998: Colleen and I got tired of Celina and decided to move to Illinois. We ended up finding a place in Alton. Here are a few random pictures from 1998, mostly all from after we moved…

Emily’s 2nd birthday
		Me and Emily in some Ohio caverns

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1997

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My entire year of 1997 was spent living in Celina, Ohio with Colleen and Emily. We moved to Celina in November of 1996. Here are a few random pictures…

Emily at our top-of-the-line 486 computer, probably watching a Dr. Suess CD-ROM	Our duplex in Celina, Ohio	Emily by the Christmas tree
Emily, desperate to go outside	Emily’s 1st birthday	Emily sitting on some messy stairs
Colleen excited by her free LOD-MOD tshirts from ErikB	Emily on a train – I think this was at the Cincinnati Zoo	Jammie visits us in Celina

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1996

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In September of 1995, Colleen and I moved to Albany, Oregon. Here are a few pictures from Albany, mostly all in 1996…

A candid shot of me picking my nose. Gee, how embarassing.	Emily just a few days old	Emily cries too much so we try to ship her to Syberia
Emily asleep	Me and Emily	Colleen hanging out in the projection booth with me (I worked at Albany’s theater)
Colleen dressed up as a phone company lineman for Holloween. I think this may have actually been 1995 Holloween, not 1996. But oh well.	Me and Emily	Emily’s first Holloween

Around October of 1996, Colleen and I were still living in Albany, Oregon but looking for a few apartments in nearby Corvallis. After awhile, plans changed and we suddenly decided to move out of state. We decided on Celina, Ohio and spent about 5 days driving. We made a pitstop in Illinois to visit my parents and then continued to Ohio.

Our car at a hotel somewhere, getting ready to leave	Colleen and Emily in a motel	Our Chevy Citation and U-haul. Click on this one to enlarge it and you’ll wonder how we ever made it across the country. Look at the back of the car sag…

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1994

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A few random pictures from 1994…
Cincinnati, Ohio & Portland, Oregon

In my Cincinnati apartment, being weird	Colleen & I, ordering lots of free room service		Demonstrating good oral hygiene
Improving my Tetris skills	My work	Coworker Kevin, stuffing his mouth with gum	Me, stuck in the cooler
At Lloyd Center food court	Me in Highland	Sailing	Me and Colleen
Vacationing in Indianapolis – Colleen

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1993

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A few random pictures from 1993…
California, Texas, Illinois, Indiana

Me & Sylvia, in California I think	Me & Sylvia with our stolen 7-Eleven money in a St. Louis airport hotel	Me, Mavis & Christina in Highland, Illinois	Christina & Sylvia
Me & some kids in Highland having a seance	Me in Highland	My mugshot from Highland, IL	Skyline Motel in Indianapolis, IN – I lived here for a few months

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1992

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A few random pictures from 1992…
Missouri, Florida, Galveston, Texas, Hollywood

My pre-summer job – Jamestown Cinema in Florrisant, Missouri	Me, Keith and some other guy in front of the Welcome to Florida sign. (On our way to Disneyworld)	Hanging from the Florida sign	Me and Bobby
Me and Sylvia	Somehow I let Sylvia talk me into letting her shave my head	Scooby, Desire and Sylvia in Hollywood	Me looking thrilled to get a t-shirt for Christmas (Hollywood)
The front of my travel guide	The inside cover of my travel guide

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1991

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A few random pictures from 1991…
School and a few jobs

Accounting class in high school	Me flicking a paper football	Me and other employees playing video games at Cottonwood Cinema (in Glen Carbon, IL)	Chris & I at Cottonwood Cinema	Me and a few other employees at Alton Cine

After leaving town and arriving in Galveston, Texas

Me and a couple house painting co-workers in my car/home	Me at the Seawall Circle K in Galveston, TX	On the phone at Circle K in League City, TX	“Working” at the League City Circle K
Me and Bobby	Me and Cleo	Bobby running alongside my 1979 Dodge Colt