Sunday, August 20, 2006

The last 3 days have been murder!

LOCATION: Puter Room
Ballerina Swan Lake Mobile Home Country Club Community
Bates City Missouri

12:00 AM-1:00 AM Worked on the puter.
1:00 AM-2:00 AM Watched the news.
2:00 AM-3:00 AM Zzzz
3:00 AM-4:00 AM Zzzz
4:00 AM-5:00 AM Zzzz
5:00 AM-6:00 AM Zzzz
6:00 AM-7:00 AM Zzzz
7:00 AM-7:50 AM Zzzz
7:50 AM-8:00 AM Wake up -- Zzzz
8:00 AM-9:00 AM Zzzz
9:00 AM-9:00 AM Breakfast/ drive to chanute kansas -- Zzzz
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Woke up, showered, dressed.
10:00 AM-11:00 AM Suyen showered -- we loaded the car. Headed out via I-70.
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Grandview -- I-470 to Olathe. 169 south -- down to 1 lane -- big traffic jam. 169 south.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Talked to boB on the phone. He wants to borrow the Samsung. I will try to get it to him Saturday after work at Y.J.'s.
1:00 PM-2:00 PM 169 to Chanutte.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Tess' house.

We went to go visit Suyen's friend, Tess, from the Philippines, who is now working in a hospital lab in Chanute, Kansas.


3:00 PM-4:00 PM "
3:30 PM-4:00 PM We went to the park.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Wal*fart to get stuff. Picnic at the park.
5:00 PM-6:00 PM Picnic & fishing
6:00 PM-7:00 PM "
7:00 PM-8:00 PM "

Tess' family taking in American style fishing. They haven't seen fall and winter here yet. They are in for a shock!


This is the little lake and park they have on the south side of Chanute Kansas, across from Wal*Fart.




This is actually good exercise. I'm just afraid the swing will break;)




Somehow I've just not been able to get around to it. I'm just dipping a pole in the water -- this is not really fishing, but it is sooooo nice to relax this way for once.




Suyen and Tess worked in the same hospital together in Cebu. Now Tess is here in the US with her family, sponsored by the hospital. There is a severe shortage of qualified hospital personnel in rural hospitals in the US. In the Philippines, there is an overabundance of medical professionals. They are recruited to come to the US to help fill the void, and the money is much better than what they would get in the Philippines.





8:00 PM-9:00 PM We said goodbye -- went downtown.




Suyen and I (well, mainly me) decided to take in a walk before heading back home after visiting Tess and her family.


This stuff is sitting trackside at the Chanute depot. You can even walk inside the caboose, which is in dire need of some love.


9:00 PM-10:00 PM Headed back via 169.
10:00 PM-11:00 PM Olathe
11:00 PM-11:59 PM Kansas City -- Crave Cafe. Started raining.

SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 2006

12:00 AM-1:00 AM Home watched tv -- ate beef stew.
1:00 AM-2:00 AM Bed
2:00 AM-3:00 AM Zzzz
3:00 AM-4:00 AM Zzzz
4:00 AM-5:00 AM Zzzz
5:00 AM-6:00 AM Zzzz
6:00 AM-7:00 AM Zzzz
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Zzzz
8:00 AM-9:00 AM Suyen woke me up at 08:45. Take Samsung to work. Shwered, dressed -- Suyen fixed me italin sausage & eggs.
9:00 AM-10:00 AM Double lung run. Work via I-70.
10:00 AM-11:00 AM Bob & I went to Kemper -- Promise Keepers.
11:00 AM-12:00 PM We were diverted to Drexel,
MO. Possible body on farm.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Driving.
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Shot farm -- sot with Sheriff PIO.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM We headed back. Back by 15:30.
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Communist bunk. Town Topic -- got hit up for stories.
3:30 PM-5:00 PM Edit 1 -- Bob's package.
4:00 PM-5:00 PM "
5:00 PM-6:00 PM Festival dos Mundos on Southwest Boulevard.
5:30 PM-6:00 PM Back at station -- dropped tape & battery off.
6:00 PM-7:00 PM Talked to Peregrine about Crossroads beat. Meet boB at Y.J.'s -- give him Samsung.

Again I am doing my beat checks for work -- on my own time even.


boB drove in from Topeka to meet me so I could loan him the Samsung camcorder, so he can try and document some of the Embarrasments show which is taking place in Lawrence at Liberty Hall Sunday night.


this is a pic I snapped so that when boB calls this picture will show up on my phone.


This is the Gary Numan autograph on the dash of boB's 1985 type 10 Cavalier.


7:00 PM-8:00 PM We went to Central Perk on 39th in Independence.
8:00 PM-9:00 PM We et at BD's.


Everybody knows I'm uncool -- at BD's Mongolian Barbeque, in Independence, Missouri.


Uh oh, boB's coolness points just decreased by the fact that he is eating at a chain resturant that many local musicians decry as evil!


9:00 PM-9:30 PM BD's was busy.
9:30 PM-10:00 PM We headed back.
10:00 PM-11:00 PM Dropped boB off at his car. He went to Lawrence -- We headed home.
10:30 PM-11:00 PM Home.
11:00 PM-11:59 PM Read the Pitch.

SUNDAY 20 AUGUST 2006


12:00 AM-1:00 AM Bed
1:00 AM-2:00 AM Zzzz
2:00 AM-3:00 AM Zzzz
3:00 AM-4:00 AM Zzzz
4:00 AM-5:00 AM Zzzz
4:30 AM-5:00 AM Call from michelle -- we are going to Harrisonville -- need to come in early to do lives. I got up & got around.
5:00 AM-6:00 AM Left home
5:40 AM-6:00 AM 05:42 -- work loaded van 2 -- picked up Lori by the back door.
6:00 AM-7:00 AM 06:05 -- We headed out -- forgot battery -- got it -- 06:10 -- 31st st -- 06:20 -- 71 Hwy -- 06:50 -- Harrisonville -- had to get directions at Caseys. (WDAF)
7:00 AM-8:00 AM 07:00 -- Courthouse square -- set up live.
7:30 AM-8:00 AM 1st hits -- tease & vo/sot.
8:00 AM-9:00 AM Went to breakfast at the Pearl Street Grill.

We et here. Apparently, most of the downtown square of Harrisonville is owned by an eccentric millionaire named Dell Dunmire. This resturant is one of his. I had eggs, ham, hash browns, wheat toast and coffee. It was good to get a chance to take in some grub between our lives. It was also cool to see this place open on a Sunday morning.


8:30 AM-9:00 AM "Wound the Clock."

his is the location of our liveshot about the apparent serial killings in the county. We arrived too late for our first hit, but the rest of the hits went ok despite not really having IFB due, I guess, to the distance from the tower.


9:00 AM-10:00 AM 09:00 Live.
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Live -- packed up









10:00 AM-11:00 AM Headed for the crime scene.
10:30 AM-11:00 AM Arrived at 315 & Southfork.
11:00 AM-12:00 PM All the media hung out and talked to the sheriff.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM "

I snapped this picture while the rest of the media was busily grilling the Cass County Sheriff for even the slightest morsel of new information. The sheriff was very nice and good natured about it.


This is the lovely story that broke over the weekend. It is apparently drug related, and there maybe the remains of six or seven human beings spread out in there.



12:30 PM-1:00 PM We headed to the Cass County justice center to get a mugshot of another suspect on another case.
1:00 PM-2:00 PM We drove back to the station.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM I unloaded, gassed van 2, called Suyen.
2:30 PM-3:00 PM Y.J.'s. -- talked to Chad. Worked on my journal. Uploade pictures.

Y.J.'s, Sunday 20 August 2006, originally uploaded by studestevo.

This is the view towards the kitchen area. Y.J.'s is very eclectic in so many ways.


3:00 PM-4:00 PM "
3:30 PM-4:00 PM Suyen called. She's heading for Redemptorist.
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Suyen's at Redemptorist. I headed out.
4:30 PM-5:00 PM Call Suyen -- Redemptorist.
5:00 PM-6:00 PM Church
6:00 PM-7:00 PM "
6:30 PM-7:00 PM Talked to Father Shea. Went to Taquiria Mexico.

What's on the Menu? C-6, which is a tamale, taco and enchilada.


Mmmmm, our favorite Mexican Resturant!


7:00 PM-8:00 PM The Embarassments @ Liberty Hall -- boB is videotaping that on the Samsung.
7:30 PM-8:00 PM We headed home via 70.
8:00 PM-9:00 PM I called Debbie.I called boB.Home by 20:05.

Yes, it's all there, the hillbilly palace complete with pink flamingo. This might be the typical view a cop might see when pulling in for that good ol' fashioned meth bust.

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