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San Antonio, TX

Monday January 26, 2004

     12:34am  I stopped at the Diamond Shamrock on Braun/1604. Found me a snipe in the ashtray. Man, I need to quit smoking. My tooth hurts. My mouth feels so unhealthy. It's hard.

     12:40am  Jeanette hooked me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, Jeanette.

                     Man, I had a big conversation with this guy who pulled up in a car. I told him, "Hey, do you want to smoke a bowl?" He told me, "No, I just smoked." I asked him if he would listen to my ideas and he listened to me. Got his email address.

     1:14am  Another great presentation! Dude, this kid about my age gave me a hug in the end. He told me, "You take it easy, man. And be careful."

     1:42am  I just got to my mom's house and went in the backyard. The back door is locked, damnit. I guess I'll just go for a walk until she wakes up in the morning. Hmm, where can I go?

                   I'll walk down Guilbeau.

     2:14am  Actually, I've been walking down Braun Road this whole time. I love this walking stick. I feel really powerful with it.

     2:23am  I stopped at the Exxon at Bandera and Braun. I bought me a donut.

     2:35am  I am walking into OP Schnabel park. I'm going to go take a hike in the middle of the night.

     3:03am  I got to the top, where the big radio antenna is. It's cool. It's all dark and nobody is out. I'm going to walk to my platform.

     3:25am  I got all stoned up in my little hideout. The platform up in the tree. Now, I'm going to go for a hike in the woods. Down by the creek and shit.

     3:35am  I'm just walking around aimlessly here. In the forest at night. It's all dark and just so beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful, serene. I love this town. I love these woods. I love this world.

                   Man, when my shit hits the Internet people are going to love my story and they're going to go, "Wouldn't it be so cool if we actually made this guy's dream come true?" And then they're going to do it! And bam. Like I say, I am a walking, talking, self-fulfilling prophecy.

                   Oh man, I missed having a stick so much. I can move so much better. I can just feel the stability.

     4:10am  Man, I've been walking forever. Just non-stop. Just been hiking through the woods. I think I did a whole complete circle. I'm kind of recognizing this part right here. I don't know. Umm, I think I see my beacon, the red light on top of the radio antenna, over there, but I'm not sure. I thought I had been walking in the opposite direction from it, but now I see it there. I'm going to take this different trail.

     4:20am  I don't know what street I am on. I ended up in some neighborhood. Hey, look what time it is. I gotta celebrate.

     4:25am  I've been on John Barret Street. I don't know where I am. I don't much care. I'm just walking.

                   I'm anywhere.

     4:29am  I'm walking down some random street now. I was on Bresnahan for a while. I think this is the main street that leads to a gas station.

     4:35am  Okay, I was in French Creek Village. I'm walking up to Bandera right now. I see the San Antonio Credit Union and the big HEB sign.

                    I wonder if I can score at the Taco Cabana. If they're open this early.

     5:02am  I walked all the way over by the Walmart, where I was the other night by the bus stop. Waiting for the first 610. It comes at 5:20am, so I got some time to wait. It's alright. I can wait.

                   It'll drop me off on Guilbeau and Old Tezel and then I have a fifteen minute walk to my mom's.

                   What a great night of exercise I had last night. I hiked all over the place.

     5:16am  I just saw the bus coming around.

     5:17am  What was your name? Just your first name. Mr. Angel just hooked me up with a cigarette, in front of the bus that just came.

     5:27am  I'm over at Guilbeau and Old Tezel. I'm going to walk to my mom's. I'm going to finish this cigarette that Mr. Angel hooked me up with first. That guy listened to my whole story. He loved it.

     5:42am  I'm over by my mom's house already.

     5:47am  Nobody is up yet. I'm out here waiting. I'm just going to stand out here and wait.

     6:25am  I am just sitting here patiently waiting for my mom to wake up. I'm going to be damn proud of myself for this wait. She should be up by now. I don't know. I'll tell her, "Mom, I've been waiting since 5:30. I didn't want to wake you up."

     6:30am  Yeahhh, my mom's light went on in her room. She's up. Her alarm went off.

     3:04pm  I'm leaving my mom's house finally. I'm going to, I'm going to go walk to OP Schnabel and see who I can smoke out.

     3:40pm  James hooked me up with a cigarette at the Exxon. I appreciate it, brother.

     3:44pm  I just walked in the entrance to OP Schnabel Park. I didn't smoke that cigarette because I'm going to save it for my little hideout. There's some guy walking up there. I'm going to catch up to him and ask him if he wants to smoke a bowl.

     4:05pm  I just had a great presentation in the park. I just told these two girls. They loved my shit. They told me good luck.

     4:35pm  Oh yeah, I ran into a lot of other stoners at the platform. I just took a picture of the gang at the treehouse.

 

                   What were you guys' names? Cast of characters. Crazy-A, Aztech, Milkweed, Blue, and what's the sister's name? That's who's girlfriend? Blue's girlfriend. She's expecting.

                   Took a picture of the view from the platform.  

                   Took a picture of the actual platform.  

     4:51pm  I'm walking through the woods now. Down the cliff. I just ran into this lady with her dog. She smiled at me and I asked her, "Hey, can I tell you a really interesting story?" She goes, "Oh no, I'm running." I go, "Why are you in such a hurry?" I told her ignorance was bliss and just walked off.

     4:56pm  I just stopped and took a picture of the cliffs.  

     5:37pm  I just took a picture of Jessica and Brandy 

on this chance occurrence of us meeting in the park. I'm going to tell them my story.

     5:50pm  Man, another magical encounter in the park today. I ran into Brandy and Jessica and they're smoking me out with some good weed. They had told me they only had a gram earlier. I thought to myself, "Oh, I know what that means. That means it's better than shwag. That's some primo shit like KB." Boy, was I right. Sure enough, it was. Anyway, they're smoking me out with this really good stuff. And, they're listening to me. This is so great. Like it's my birthday.

     6:17pm  I'm just walking around in the park. Man, what a wondrous day today has been. It was just magical. Those girls were hot, too. Look. I liked the blond one better. They were both pretty. This is a really good day.

                   Praise Love.

     6:25pm  I just told these kids playing basketball my mission objectives and they all just stared at me. I should probably take off. I told them what I was doing.

     6:35pm  I'm in Babcock North. I'm going to go to Bob's house and see if anybody's home.

     6:40pm  Nobody is home at Bob's.

     6:43pm  I'm going to go visit Katie and Johnny. That's what I'll do.

                   I'm going to walk all the way out to Johnny and Katie's and see if they can give me some gasoline for the stomach. I'm hungry.

                   I'm just walking down this street. I don't know what street it is. But I ran into this sister who just walked by. She told me that her dad was drinking and she just needed to get out of the house. Hopefully I can give her a good thing to kill some time with.

                   She listened to my whole story, and I'm getting her email address. Her name was Tricia. Thanks for listening Tricia.

     7:20pm  Tricia is hooking me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, Tricia. And, she was wondrous enough to listen to me. Awesome.

     7:37pm  Tricia is hooking me up with all these cigarettes. Awesome.

     8:26pm  Man, I just had an awesome presentation with Tricia, man. She's a real pretty girl. She's all been to jail before and knew what I was talking about. I told her all my stories. I gave her the biggest hug and told her thanks for listening. Thank you Love. Thanks for dropping Tricia in my life tonight.

     8:45pm  I walked over to Johnny and Katie's. Their car was in the driveway and I went and knocked on the door. I didn't ring the doorbell because of Johnny's senile mother. I went on the little porch they have in the front of the sliding glass door. Because I saw a light on inside. I wasn't sure if it was Johnny and Katie's, so I didn't knock on it or anything. I'm going to take advantage of this little wooden platform, though. I can put my thermal bottoms on.

     9:15pm  I walked all the way across the ditch and into Babcock North again. I'm out here on Spring Time waiting for the bus. I think I just saw Carlos drive by in his Miata. I was contemplating walking down there to his house, but I might as well jump on the bus.

     10:20pm  Oh, I came over to Carlos' house. He was home and he listened to my updated story. I talked to him a lot and we hung out. Oh yeah, he gave me some food. I'm hungry. He's heating me up a corndog and some nuggets. I grabbed a little oatmeal pie they had too. I hope they don't notice it missing. It was on top of the fridge. They probably forgot about it. I'm in the garage right now. Oh yeah, I'm waiting for my mom to come pick me up. She said she would be like half an hour.

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