012405

 

San Antonio, TX

Monday January 24, 2005

     6:26am  I woke up at like 5:45. I ate breakfast and did my morning smoking session. I had three Toaster Scrambles and a banana. It's kind of chilly outside.

     6:29am  I did a little stretching and I'm out.

     6:47am  I took the power line trail. Now crossing Tezel Road. I was going to stop at the tennis courts, but I have two balls in my pockets.

                   I was able to get $1.90 off my mom for "bus fare."

     7:15am  Just passed Mainland. Oh, I didn't tell you. Last night when my mom got home at around ten or eleven she was all apologizing, "Oh Victor, I forgot you would be here and I didn't bring you home anything to eat. You can go get you something if you want." I told her, "Umm, can I get some cigarettes?" She said, "I will give you six dollars." I went and got me a pack of cigarettes and two quarter pounder double cheeseburgers from Wendy's.

                    I'm at the construction yard now. I wonder if they'll tell me anything today.

     7:32am  I'm out at Low Bid Lane. Nobody told me anything. I just walked through. There are all these black birds again. I scared them all away with my stick.

                    Right when I got on Buck Heath's property I changed my mind. I'm going to walk to Babcock, in that direction. I'm going to go return that purse I found, which is taking up room in my bag.

                    I stopped and sat on this rock here in this natural ditch. Leon Creek. Man, I love that I take a nature hike every day I go out. It's awesome. It recharges me. Ugh, I wish I had a camera so bad.

                    I was walking in this dry creek bed and I found me another fossil! It's badass. I don't know if I should take it, it's pretty heavy. I want to keep this.

                    The creek is all awesome right here. All these rocks.

                    Found an old truck out here. Somebody wrote, "Fuck" on it. An old Mazda. It's like half buried.

                    Oh, I forgot to tell you. I got to this dirt road out here and some guy in a truck saw me. He drove over to me and I gave him the peace sign. I tell him, "I'm just hiking the creek today. I'm on a nature hike." He was all, "Well, this is private property." I told him, "I am harmless, man. I'm just going to keep walking the creek." He said, "Okay."

                    That's cool, I got seen.

                    I ended up on Bandera close to Eckhert. As I was walking by this Mexican restaurant there, that had always been closed before, I saw it was open. Cool, I told myself, "I'm going to eat." I went inside and sure enough they hooked me up with some tacos. As I was sitting down eating, this high school kid that was friends with the restaurant walks in and recognizes me! He was all, "Hey, Victor. I never thought I would see you again." His name was Abel and he said he met me on the bus once. He told me, "Yeah, you had that cigarette pipe." I said, "Yeah, that's in my pocket right now." He said that him and his friend were going to skip school today and go smoke some hydro. I asked him, "Smoke a brother out?" He asked me, "Are you going to be here for awhile?" I told him, "I'm going to eat and smoke a cigarette." He said that he would be right back with his friend. That his friend had a car. I told him cool.

     9:45am  They hooked me up with a big iced tea at Horacio's. I ate and went outside and smoked a cigarette. I got tired of waiting for Abel, so I just took off walking. Well, right when I was walking right in front of Marshall HS, there were all these kids playing soccer, all of a sudden this car pulls up and the back door opens. I thought, "Oh shit! There's the dude with the weed!" I just jumped right in the car. Abel's friend David said he'd met me before. Cool. I'm everywhere.

     10:08am  Abel is telling me about the last time he met me, in case I didn't log it. What happened?

                    Abel: "Last time I met this guy I was sitting at the VIA Transit Center at the hospital. He had a rag hanging out of his pocket that had a bunch of weed plants all over it. So I walk up to this guy, knowing he smoked pot and asked for tobacco. I said, "Can I have a cigarette." He said he doesn't have one. So I go and sit down. He comes up to me with a cigarette that's really a pipe. He said, "Do ya'll smoke these kinds of cigarettes?" I said yes. We smoked weed. The security guard came up and asked us what we were smoking. Since he had a cigarette pipe, we told her, "A cigarette." She said ok and she walked away. Victor gave her a wink. And then we got on the bus and went to the Westside. No, we went downtown because we were going to the Westside to smoke some more weed. But, Victor's friend came and said there was a peyote party, so Vic ended up there. That's it."

     10:29am  What was your name again? Abel has made the claim that you can buy a bong in San Antonio at some Indian store on Evers. That it's their religion and shit. So let's go find out, guys.

     10:47am  We have found the place. It is a fact! They do sell bongs at this place. I'm going to tell everybody in the whole world! It's the shop connected to that Mediterranean place where I score sometimes(5-6-04, 3:29pm and 5-20-04, 8:25pm). Dude, they have bongs!

                    This is sweet! Abel shat us not. I wish I had a camera!

                    They're not bongs. They're hookahs.

                    Abel and David are seventeen and eighteen.

     10:07am  I've got to make an update. I ended up at Planet K. Man, it's so awesome how I ran into that high school kid. I'm walking down Wurzbach right now. I've decided I'm going to just walk to Babcock and find this Planet Interscapes place and try and get this purse off my back.

                    Oh, I didn't tell you. I'm walking Babcock. Almost to Eckhert.

     10:38am  I walked all the way to Prue and went in the Pizza Hut and hit them up for any mistakes. Right when I had walked in the guy asked me, "Do you want a buffet?" I asked him if they had any mistakes they could hook me up with. He told me no, I told him thanks anyway and walked out. Well, right when I walk off the parking lot I hear some lady calling from the Pizza Hut. It was some lady who had been sitting down eating. I walked up and Sherry asked me, "Are you hungry? Do you want a buffet?" I appreciate it, Sherry.

     10:54am  Man, it is so awesome. We walked back inside and she told the manager, "Let him have a buffet." Sherry paid for my buffet.

     11:05am  I stuffed myself at that buffet. Now I'm walking to this Planet Interscapes place. I pulled her social security card out of the purse, just so I would remember the name. If she's there I'll go up to her, pull out her social security card and say, "Hey, look what I found. It was on the side of the highway. With my elite hacker skills I was able to pull up your information through some database and I found out where you work. So here's your card back." Then I'll go, "I'm just kidding. I have your whole purse in my backpack."

                     I have arrived at Plant Interscapes. Good books, healthy plants and expert advice.

                     I put my rainbow scarf in my bag so I won't be so conspicuous.

                     I returned the purse. Jenny-Erika wasn't there, though. The lady told me she'd make sure she got it. Hmm, since I'm all the way over here, I'm going to go see if Katie and Johnny are home. I haven't seen them since I got back. I'll stop at Carlos' on the way there and see what's going on.

                     I stopped at Carlos' and talked to his roommate. Carlos wasn't there. I talked to that dude for a bit and then took off walking on the ditch. I got to the other ditch that goes in Katie's neighborhood. Let's see if I can remember the correct sequence to her house. Left, right, left, right, I think(5-22-03, paragraph starting with: Anyway, I eventually leave Johnny and Katie's.).

     2:06pm  I ended up at Katie and Johnny's and they were about to leave. While Katie was getting ready Johnny invited me in and I talked to him. I showed him my list and everything. They're going to give me a ride downtown. Cool. Katie just got out of jail. She got arrested. She's having all these problems. She's not able to smoke weed at all for nine months. What a curse.

                   Hmm, Katie asked me if I had ever been to Freidrich Wilderness Park. She said there was some awesome trails there and even gave me a brochure. She said that it's right in front of Raymond Russell Park. Cool, thanks for the destination, Katie. I don't know when I'll walk out there.

     2:37pm  They gave me a ride downtown to the Samm's Shelter. I'm going to buy me a joint.

                   This dude tried to sell me this little skinny pinner. I told him, "Don't worry about it. I'll get a fatter joint in the park."

                   I just walked to the Nix Hospital and took a piss. I wasn't able to buy a joint.

     4:07pm  Courtesy ride on the 92. Ask and thou shall receive.

     4:27pm  I got a courtesy ride on the 92. I had gone downtown to score some weed, but the park was all dead. So I just jumped on the 92 and I'm off.

                   I'm at Sam's apartments. Santa Fe Place. I'm going to go see if Leo's home.

                   Oh yeah, I have to make an update. I left Sam's. Sam made me a delicious vegetarian salad. Man, Sam's weird. Sam was telling me all about how he is really getting into doing enemas. He has these phone books stacked up in front of the toilet so he can kneel while he takes a shit. That's crazy, hehe. Sam made this great salad for me. It was good. It had honey and bananas. He made me this delicious carrot juice too. I'm loaded up with vegetarian food.

                   After I got through at Sam's Leo still wasn't home. Right when I get to the front of the complex to see if Teo is there, I see these three dudes leaving his apartment. I walked up to them as they were coming up the stairs and Teo tells me, "Hey, man. I'm sorry, but no one can come over to my place for a couple weeks. Me and my girlfriend are about to break up and my mom is still there. I don't have any weed anyway. Are you looking for any?" I told him I just wanted to buy a joint. He then changed his tune and told me to hold on. He went back inside and came back out with a tiny plastic bag with a tiny, seedy nugget. I didn't care. I gave him two bucks. Cool, got some weed for my typing tomorrow. I knew I would get weed at Santa Fe Place tonight. That's what I came here for. I even got fed at Sam's.

                   I've got like eighty cents in my pocket, but I'm going to ask for a courtesy ride anyway. If he tells me no I'll go, "Alright, I'll pay the fare."

                   I just paid the fare when the bus came.

                   I'm at the hospital. It's still early. I'm going to go look for tennis balls. The 91 should be here any minute. I'm going to catch that to West and walk home. I missed the last 610 to my mom's.

     7:45pm  This guy was there practicing by himself. Hitting the balls against a board. He hooked me up with a ball for my stick.

     7:52pm  I forgot to tell you, the 91 came.

                   I'm at West already. I'm going to call my mom and see if she'll pick me up. If not, I'll walk it.

                   At Sam's he made me some juice and a big salad. A good salad. Oh yeah, and when I caught the 92 in front of Santa Fe Place, my bus driver friend Ingrid was driving. I really like Ingrid. Tonight I told her that she's one of my favorite bus drivers. I actually paid the fare when I got on. She was all surprised. I told her, "You should feel honored. I don't pay bus fare for just any driver." She said, "Oh, I am. I was shocked." After that I ended up at the hospital. I took a couple hits of weed and got hooked up with a tennis ball. I went to West and smoked a cigarette at the smoking cabana and said hi to some people. I talked shit to these kids who were talking about wanting to stay at West and advance as managers and move up in the company. I butted in with, "Man, this place is evil." They told me, "Hey, as long as you get paid." From there I took off walking. I walked down Prue and got hooked up at the Subway again like I did last time. I stopped at Carlos' house and he wasn't home. I had a nature hike all the way to Bandera to the Exxon on Braun Road. My friend Matt hooked me up with two cigarettes. I just walked all the way back home. I had an awesome day. Just like old times. I'm ready to crash out now. Later on, people.

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