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San Antonio, TX

Monday January 3, 2005

     7:09am  Wow, I woke up early this morning. I slept a lot last night. I went to bed at six last night. I woke up like five minutes ago.

     10:12am  I think I'm going to leave the house. Maybe I'll go downtown today. I want to walk every day like I used to. I think my mom's supposed to come home soon, so I can clean tomorrow.

                     I think today I am going to take my walking stick with me. I just might, yeah.

                     It started raining so I changed my mind and started walking back. Then it stopped raining again. Just like yesterday. I'm just going to keep on walking. I put three cameras in my bag. I'm going to have a re-run of yesterday.

                     I'm going to walk Wickersham to Guilbeau and go to the Walmart and get some film developed. Oh yeah, I never mentioned it. Another breakthrough in the mission. At first I had been all bummed out. See, at first I thought that instead of actually putting my webpage up on the Internet, that I could just email all these people on my list with my actual webpage. Like all the HTML files, so they could view my stuff and not have to be connected(because I really don't think my site would stay up too long if I did put it on the web). Then I remembered that Hotmail and Yahoo have like a two megabyte attachment limit. I was bummed out, but hey, guess what. Recently I guess, Hotmail upped it's limit to 250mb on it's free email accounts. Hooray! Yahoo has a 250mb limit now too! Happy day! I'm going to send out my actual webpage in my mass-mail.

                     Oh, and I've decided I'm not going to take my stick out. I should probably send my emails out before I do that.

                     I walked down Wickersham a bit and just realized I didn't have my wallet. I think I left it at the front porch when I took a hit of weed out of it for the walk. I hope it's still at the porch. Let me go find out.

     12:30pm  I went back and my wallet is right there on the porch. I'm going to go inside and get some water and take off again.

                     I have changed my mind yet again. I figured I had to stay home and insert all the links of the pictures I got yesterday into my webpage. Before I get new ones. I've already done one CD of pictures. I'm going to do the rest and then I'll go.

     1:19pm  I just finished doing all the links to the pictures. I'm going to walk to the Walmart now. It's raining again.

     1:42pm  I walked all the way to the Walmart. Down Wickersham. Non-stop. I'm raising my arms and everything. I'm walking good.

     2:23pm  I just walked out of the Walmart. I am going to walk all the way to Medical Center. Just for the walk.

                   Oh yeah, the dude at the photolab recognized me. He was all, "Where have you been?"

                   I stopped at the Diamond Shamrock at Abe Lincoln and Eckhert. I found out that I couldn't cash that thing, the five dollar gift certificate I have. I got some water though. I picked a snipe out of the ashtray and smoked it. It was a Skydancer, no additives.

                   Oh yeah, I went in the Around the Bend bar. I asked the girl behind the counter, "Hey, can I get a shot for two dollars? Just for my walk?" She said the shots were $2.50. She gave me a shot of tequila.

     2:40pm  Now passing Huebner. Huebner and Eckhert.

                    I stopped in House of Pizza to ask if they had any mistakes. The lady told me no. I told her to tell Carlos Victor said hi. Carlos works there, I think.

                    I'm at the Diamond Shamrock on Babcock. Since now I know I can't cash my thing, I'll buy some food with it.

     3:36pm  Majed hooked me up with two cigarettes! I just asked for one. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

                    I had me a little pit-stop at the Diamond Shamrock. Ate me a hotdog and some ice cream. I've got a banana in my hand that I'm walking with. I bummed a cigarette off that guy. He gave me two. I had a big thing of orange juice. Some vitamin C. Vitamin C helps replenish stuff lost after smoking. So Sam says.

                    I'm up walking now. I'm walking up to the VA right now. I made it a point to walk in front of the Easter Seals in case somebody's looking outside. I'm going to go to where the buses are. I'm passing this big statue they got here in the VA hospital parking lot. It's of Audie Leon Murphy. Farmersville, Texas. 1924-1971. What's up, Mr. Murphy?

     4:13pm  I'm at the buses now. The transfer center. I asked this greedy lady driver, "Hey, can I get a ride? I just walked all the way from Old Tezel." She said, "Ask that driver." I told her I already had and he had told me no. I called her a greedy ass.

     4:21pm  6357 hooked me up with a courtesy ride. I appreciate it.

                    I had a good presentation with this girl who got on the bus.

     5:05pm  Rode the 91 downtown. Man, my feet hurt.

     5:18pm  Mr. Giles is hooking me up with a ride to the Walmart. I appreciate it, brother.

                   Oh yeah, earlier when I got on the bus, the 91, there was a really pretty driver. I wanted to tell her that she was really pretty, but I didn't have the balls. On the bus this young guy looked at me. I told him, "I'm going to get marijuana legalized and bring world peace." He told me, "Man, I've met you before. We gave you a ride, remember? We saw you walking. My brother picked you up(6-10-04, 2:37pm)." I asked him, "Did he used to work at the Jack in the Box on Wurzbach?" He told me, "No, his girlfriend used to."

                   I got bored at the park real quick and said screw it, I'm going to go back home. I have to go to the Walmart and pick up my pictures. I saw the 88 pull up which goes all the way to the Walmart. I asked him for a courtesy ride and he hooked me up.

                   I am back in business. Logging my stuff and telling my story.

     6:14pm  I'm at the Walmart. I've got sixteen dollars exactly.

     6:45pm  Jake hooked me up with a cigarette here at the Walmart. I appreciate it, brother.

     6:44pm  Oh yeah, I've got an update to make. I went to go pick up my pictures. Earlier, when I dropped them off I didn't write on there, "CD Only." I just put it in one of the bags and dropped it off. So they made prints and everything. It was like ten dollars a roll. I told them, "But I just wanted the CD." They changed the price on them and they hooked me up with the prints! Then I went back outside and the 88 guy wouldn't give me a transfer. He was all, "Ask for a ride." The guy driving the 609 wouldn't give me a transfer either and I called him a greedy ass to his face. It's so cool I have pictures to look at. Hopefully I get a ride when the 610 comes.

     6:53pm  Billy, the guy I had asked for a transfer from earlier, called me over and he's hooking me up. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

                        Haha, the guy I called a greedy ass hooked me up! He pulled up and said, "Hey, where are you going?" I told him, "Old Tezel and Guilbeau." He said, "The 610? Did you get stuck with no money?" I told him, "Yeah." He called me over and tore me off a transfer. I pulled out my tape recorder and told him, "I'm writing a book on generosity the whole world is going to read and you're in it."

                        The 610 came and I'm going home.

                        Mike hooked me up with a cigarette at the Citgo close to my mom's. I appreciate it, brother.

     7:34pm  I just got to my mom's house.

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