San Antonio, TX
Thursday January 22, 2004
11:17am I am leaving Sam's for the day. Sam came home early. He got all pissed at me. I told him about how I was thinking about quitting West, but that I was to go to NFO-NXX. That I wasn't going to quit until I had another job. He went, "Oh, if you get another job, do you think your mom will let you stay at her place?" Surprised, I asked him, "You wouldn't let me stay here even if I had another job and I still had some cash flow?" He told me no. I had told him, "It's because telemarketing is evil. I'm not that good at lying. I hate ripping people off." He tells me, "Oh, but you're lying now." I asked him how he thought I was lying and he said, "Well, you're not doing what you said you were going to." I told him, "Well, things change, Sam." Dude, I should've told him, "You're the one who's lying. When I first asked you how long am I welcome to stay here, you told me as long as I wanted. Now look at this shit."
Well, I'm going to go to that NFO-NXX place and see if I can get a job there.
First, I'll go down to Travis Park downtown and smoke some weed.
11:32am I got to Crossroads Mall on the 92 and bummed a cigarette. I could've just stayed on the 92 to Medical Center and caught the 534 to Wurzbach/Bandera, which would've dropped me off at the place, but I'm going to catch the 550 looper bus and get off at Bandera/loop 410, where it's close to NFO-NXX.
11:44am I'm on the 550 to 410 and Bandera.
11:53am I'm at Bandera and 410. I just got off the bus. I'm going to walk to this NFO-NXX place.
11:59am I'm walking up to the NFO-NXX place. At the old Bandera Cinema building.
12:02pm I have me an appointment on Monday at 10:30am. The 26th. Testing and stuff.
12:06pm I walked up to the bus stop in front of the Taco Cabana on Wurzbach/Bandera(where I've scored before). I asked the lady waiting at the bus stop what time the bus came. She said 12:22pm. I have to wait until then.
I'm going to go across the street to the BP Shop, this gas station across the street and see if I can bum a cigarette.
Ahh, no cigarette there. I'm going back to the stoplight. Maybe somebody driving by will hook me up.
12:15pm Justin hooked me up with a cigarette at the stoplight. Badaboom, badabing.
When I left Sam's place this morning I had on my slacks and nice shirt and my tie in my pocket. My uniform for West. Which means I can stay downtown a little later and hopefully get smoked out.
12:25pm There's the bus to the hospital.
12:40pm I'm on the 92.
12:46pm I changed my mind. I'm not going to go downtown. I let Ernest borrow my pipe at work last night and he never gave it back. He went home early, or something. I know he usually gets to work around two. I'm going to go see if he comes in early and smokes a brother out. Or at least I'll get my pipe back. When the 92 stops at Louis Pasteur/Fredericksburg, I'll get off and walk to the 91 stop on Medical and go to West.
12:50pm Lindsay hooked me up with a cigarette outside of the Coastal. Or at least it used to be the Coastal.
Shweet! Lindsay gave me two!
12:55pm I just talked to Lindsay. This guy gave me two cigarettes. He was getting in his car at the gas station. I was like, "Hey man, can you spare a cigarette?" He tells me sure and I tell him, "I'm writing a book on generosity the whole world is going to read . . . and you're in it." He goes, "You're kidding, right?" I busted out with my scriptage and in the end he offered me another cigarette.
1:16pm I'm on the 91 to West.
1:21pm Brett, this guy I just told me ideas to just handed me this card. Of some taxi driver who is supposedly doing the same thing I'm doing. I'm going to give him a call and get his email address.
1:27pm This guy noticed me making an entry on my tape recorder earlier and asked me what I was doing. I started telling him my story and he goes, "Hey man, do you know Katie and Johnny? Did you come by their house on Christmas? I remember you. I let you in." I told him my platform and he said he'd smoke me out! He lives close by. He's going to walk me to his house, we're going to smoke and then he'll give me a ride back to work. Excellent.
Everybody check out Profuse 73. Download them. They're cool.
Suggested by Jason aka Peanut.
3:06pm Dude, that was a badass little session with Jason. He took me to his house and smoked me out. I'm all stoned for work. And, he listened to all my shit! Now I'm at work and I'm all stoned. Hey, maybe I can get my pipe from Ernest if I see him.
I'm going to go walk up there and look for him.
3:11pm Dude, I found Ernest and he told me he loaded it for me. That he had felt bad for just taking it, so he loaded it for me. We're going to go smoke right now. Awesome.
3:20pm Cool, I got smoked out . . . again. Ernest gave them some bullshit excuse about having to go move his car. We came and smoked. Fuck the system.
3:21pm David gave me a cigarette at the smoking cabana. I appreciate it, bro.
3:30pm Man, I just had this interesting, big dispute at the smoking cabana. All these old guys out here telling me, "Oh, they're going to go after all the pirated software people." I jumped in and told him, "No. They are not. They can't afford to. Don't we deserve equal treatment under the law? If they go after one, they'll have to go after everyone. They cannot afford to go after everybody. Plain and simple. Imagine the publicity criminalizing pirated software would attract. Then everybody and their grandmas would be doing it. It's just impossible. You cannot stop bytes."
3:35pm I am having some really productive presentations at the smoking cabana. Awesome.
3:36pm Rick just asked me if I had a cigarette. I told him no, but he offered me a candy bar anyway. Man, somebody's gotta give him a cigarette. Sweet, Scott is hooking up Rick with a cigarette. The universe provides.
Cool, Scott has been nice enough to listen to my story . . . and he gave me a cigarette. Awesome.
I'm up here in the branch right now. Dude, I am punched into 555 again. They told me to just me punch into 555 and just chill and not do anything. That's what I did yesterday. I had a problem with it yesterday too. Am I not getting paid on 555?
Oh yeah, I just realized that on the board there are all these names of people who had sat in the room earlier. Where I chose to sat, the name on the board is Antonio. That's cool.
I'm pulling out my tape recorder in the branch. I don't care if people see me. What? They might just try and fire me because I have a recording device on West grounds. I don't care if I get fired. Then I can tell Sam I got fired for my recorder.
I'm going to go any day now.
4:37pm Louis hooked me up with a cigarette at the smoking cabana. Excellent.
4:46pm Dude, I gotta recap what just happened. I just got sent home. They told me to punch in 999 and go home. I asked Hailey, the black branch manager dude, "Hey, am I going to get a referral?" He told me yeah and I was psyched. I waited a little bit and asked Hailey where my referral was. He told me he talked to Steve and that they were just going to have me go down to HR tomorrow. That they hadn't figured out what they were going to do about it. He gave me his phone number and told me to call him tomorrow.
4:48pm I'm on the 91. I tested this driver. She said, "No, there's cameras everywhere." I told her, "Ahh, bus drivers with cameras give me rides all the time."
5:07pm I'm at the hospital. I'm going to go take a piss and refill my water bottle.
5:10pm John hooked me up with a cigarette outside of the hospital. I appreciate it, brother.
5:32pm I just struck up a story with Jennifer Sweet. I was telling her my story and she says, "Oh, I remember you." I went, "Cool, I'm famous." She stops me and tells me, "You don't know where I remember you from. I had a dream about you."
Oh man, that's so awesome! What a great day.
Shweet, I had the greatest presentation with that girl. It's going to happen soon.
5:38pm Nameless gave me a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother.
5:47pm I just decided I was going to get on the next bus that came, no matter where it was going. The 520 pulled up and I asked the driver, "Say brother, don't suppose I can get a courtesy ride?" He asked me, "Courtesy ride where?" I told him to Zarzamora, only because I knew it was the Zarzamora route. He still had some time and he started walking off. I asked him, "So is it cool?" He tells me, "Go ahead." So I got on! I'm going to show him my pass when he gets back and then tell him my story.
5:50pm The nice bus driver Willis is hooking me up with a courtesy ride to Zarzamora. Thank you, brother.
5:56pm Dude, I had a badass presentation on the bus. The driver had told me, "You know, if it was a dry day I wouldn't have let you on, but it's raining and it's always good to be generous." I told him, "Can I tell you what I'm doing?" and went from there. Then when I got on the bus I saw some guy sitting down in the back and went and told him my story. He nodded his head up and down the whole time. Oh man, it's going to happen soon.
6:07pm I just got off the 520 at Hillcrest and Babcock. Inside the loop. I just passed a Taqueria Jalisco, a taco place. I'm going to go get some food.
6:10pm Scoring at the taco place.
6:11pm Daniel me esta dando unos tacos. Gasolina para mi estomago.
Sweet, got me a fat taco.
6:19pm Beth hooked me up with a cigarette at the Citgo. I appreciate it, Beth.
I am calling the shots today, man. I've predicted all these occurrences.
6:20pm Oh yeah, and I forgot that I accidentally swiped that dude Jason's lighter earlier. I had even told him, "I don't want to steal it, so remind me to give it back. I do that sometimes on accident." I accidentally ended up taking it. It's funny that on the lighter there's a picture of Bill Clinton on one side and it says, "Player." Flip it around and on the other side it has a picture of George W. Bush and it says, "Hater." That's funny.
6:52pm Beth even hooked me up with a candy bar! Awesome. A Fast Break.
6:55pm Andy hooked me up with a cigarette at some tattoo shop close by. The Iron Cross Tattoo Parlor.
7:10pm Bob hooked me up with a cigarette. I was telling all the kids here my story at the tattoo shop. Bob at Iron Cross.
Cool, Andy is giving me a Newport for the road. A good 'ol Pote. A candy cane.
7:24pm Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. I had seen a 520 coming on the other side. So I jumped across the street. On the bus I noticed there was a tattoo shop and all these people smoking outside. "Perfect," I thought. I am hunting my prey. That was earlier. I'm waiting for the bus now.
7:25pm I thought, "Oh shit. I should go ask those guys if they have any weed." I went back and asked, but they didn't. One guy told me, "If I had some I would definitely smoke you out though." I told him, "It's the thought that counts, brother."
Their email addresses were ninjinsan@yahoo and kelly_miles1082@yahoo.
7:50pm The 520 finally came in front of the gas station. Mrs. Robbins, who used to drive the Braun Station buses was the driver. I didn't ask her for a courtesy ride. I just showed her my pass and got on. I'm going to go downtown and try and score some weed at Travis Park.
7:56pm The 520 doesn't go all the way downtown. I got off in front of the Deco District HEB on Fredericksburg. I'm going to catch another bus downtown.
8:10pm I'm on the 92 going downtown.
8:29pm I'm at Travis Park. I'm going to see if I can get some change for a hotdog.
8:42pm I had said, "Screw it. I'm going to go downtown to the park and see if someone will smoke me out. Right when I got off the bus this guy asked me if I had a paper and he smoked a brother out. We offered this other guy Michael a hit. He refused but he told me, "Do you remember me from at the courthouse? You were talking to that guy and girl and I was across the street?" Then, the guy who smoked me out, some spare changer, he gave me thirty five cents towards a hotdog. What was your name? Jonathan. Thanks, brother. I appreciate it.
8:55pm I can't remember the name of the lady who just gave me a cigarette. Her bus came and she had to get on it.
9:07pm I've just been walking around the park. I am a bard hunting my prey. What was your name? Carlos and Joel, Epic-One. They're going to smoke me out. Badass. They're going to listen to my story. Awesome.
9:18pm Man, I am having the best time in Travis Park tonight. Just talking to people. I just talked to this one dude for a long time. He smoked me out. Dude, everybody's been smoking me out today. Awesome.
9:30pm Mike hooked me up with a cigarette. Badass. Marlboro light. I appreciate it, brother. The universe provides.
Mike even hooked up another brother.
9:50pm Mike just hooked me up with a dollar for laundry. Thanks.
10:17pm I just called Kati from Arcata. I remembered I had her calling card information. I called her. I miss Kati, so much. I told her about all the cool stuff that happened today and everything. I told her I loved her. Aww, my Kati-Pie.
10:18pm Earlier tonight I talked to this dude I knew when I was in middle school. Chris Goodman. Ben Turner's friend. I kind of remember him surprising the hell out of me by turning into a Republican. Anyway, he just came back right now. He asked me where I was going to crash tonight and I told him about Sam's. He told me if I ever needed a place I could crash at his.
10:27pm Chris Goodman hooked me up with a cigarette. After his initial refusal. Thanks, brother.
The AllStars tourbus just drove by.
10:36pm Boarding the 92 lineup. Last 92 for the day. Actually, I think there's another one at 11:30pm.
10:37pm I got on and asked the driver, Mr. Harris for a courtesy ride. He was all, "I gave you a free ride last time." I went, "Aww, come on. Give me another one. Please." He waved me on and told me, "This will be the last time. I'll let it slide." I pulled out my pass and told him, "I'm just testing you, brother. I'm writing a book on generosity the . . . " He cut me off and told me, "I know, you told me last time."
Oh yeah, I don't know if I mentioned it or not but earlier I was talking to these guys on the bus at West. One of them asked me, "Were you walking down Southcross the other day(1-18-04, 12:05pm)? You were wearing a scarf or something."
That's so awesome. People recognize me everywhere I go. Kickass.
11:52pm Guess what happened. What an update I have to make. I came home and I started talking to Sam. Right when I got in I noticed that my computer had been all taken apart. Like my monitor was on the ground and my table wasn't there. I looked around and told Sam, "Are you kicking me out, dude?" He tells me, "Oh, that all depends on you. I might be in a couple days when you quit your job." I told him the truth, that I was going to try and get my training class rescheduled . . . for the third time, haha. Another week or two of free money. He got all pissed off and shouting at me. He was all, "This has been a joke to you ever since you first moved in!" He asked me, "Why did you get evicted from your apartment, Victor?" I told him, "Because I couldn't pay the rent. Actually, even if I had all the money for rent, I wouldn't have wanted to. I had better things to do." He gets all mad at me some more. I don't agree with him at all and he tells me, "Then why don't you leave now?" I told him, "What makes you think I won't?" I got all my shit together and booked it. I told Sam, "You can have my seventeen inch monitor for all I care. Enjoy it."
Anyway, I got a dollar in my pocket. I'm going to walk to the Jim's. They're open twenty four hours. Maybe I'll strike up a conversation with somebody. Hehe, I look homeless. I'm wearing all my bags and stuff. I have it all on me. Everything I need. Nothing I don't. I'm ready to go at an instant.
Anyway, I had tried telling Sam my shit and he gets all pissed off. He eventually got to the point where he was, "If you want to leave, leave now!" I told him, "Okay, alright. You don't think I will?" I packed up all my shit and left. I told him, "Dude, you can have the monitor and the table. I don't need them. Actually, you could throw it out your three story front porch for all I care. I don't need that shit. I'm going to get a new one someday. It will get replaced, trust me." He tells me, "Oh, you're always lying." Screw Sam. He was the one who told me that he was letting me stay because he felt it was the right thing to do. When did it, all of a sudden, become the wrong thing to do? What the hell? He was all telling me, "You're the guest here, don't turn this shit on me." I told him, "Dude, I didn't make you do any of this shit. I don't make you give me cigarettes. I didn't make you buy me milk and cereal. I didn't make you take me out for Indian food. That was all you. Since when does it hurt to ask? And I only asked for the cigarettes. You offered all that other stuff. What? Did you buy me that shit so I would kiss your ass? Is that what you wanted?" I told him, "Well Sam, life always has a way of surprising you."
In the end I told him, "You have been great help to me Sam and I appreciate it. Keep my computer monitor as a debt of gratitude. Maybe that will compensate you in some way, since you're not going to accept money from me." I had told him, "On Saturday, when I get my check I'm going to bring all the cash home and tell you, "Sam take whatever you feel will compensate you for room and board or any grief I have put you through." He wouldn't listen to me.
Well, I don't know where I am going to sleep tonight. I'm just walking down Fredericksburg right now. I'm going to walk up to the Jim's. I've got a dollar. Let's see what I can get. And I'll tell some people my story.
12:02am The 92 lineup. The very last bus of the night just drove by. It stopped and I crossed the street. I thought it stopping was a sign and I crossed to get on the bus. At the last minute I told myself, "Nah, I don't want to go downtown. I don't know where to squat downtown." I'm going to go in the Denny's here and see if I can stay up all night until the buses run again. I'll tell my story.
12:05pm I came into the Denny's. I'm going to go see who I can talk to in there. Yeah.
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