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San Antonio, TX

Friday February 13, 2004

     4:50am  I just woke up. I went to take a shit in the bathroom and I opened up a Reader's Digest from July 2002. There's a quote I found from Willie Nelson. It says, "I think we aught to make America the Beautiful the national anthem. It's not about war, there's no bombs bursting in air, no rockets red glare. It's about the land, amber waves of grain. That sounds good to me. Plus, it's a lot easier so sing."

     5:44am  I just brushed my teeth. I noticed my gums don't bleed anymore when I brush my teeth. They always had. It's because I quit smoking. God-damn. There's a noticeable effect right there. I'm never going to smoke again. Everybody should stop smoking.

                   It's not hard at all. When you want a cigarette, go for a walk.

                   Oh yeah, it's drizzling outside. Rumor has it it's supposed to snow.

     5:55am  I am leaving my mom's house. Man, it's early. It's drizzling outside. That's alright. Rain or snow, I'll keep going. I have to get in the habit of walking a lot in the morning. I'm going to walk to, I don't know where I'm going to walk. I'm going to go walk in New Territories or something.

                   Oh yeah, I did my stretches this morning. That's what I've been doing for like three or four days now. I get up and go to my mom's back porch. I get all high and stoned, smoke some weed and do my stretches. My Tai-Chi, which I cheat on because I don't do the breathing. It pops all the muscles in my shoulder. It feels good. Everybody should do it.

                   I had me a good breakfast. A bowl of Total cereal. 100% of everything. I had me some peanut butter bread. I'm up and walking now.

     6:06am  Man, if I would have jumped across the street and caught the 610 I would have caught it. I decided I'm going to go walking today. Maybe I should catch the bus to the other side of town and walk.

     6:12am  I'm walking down Brickwood. Over by the old Albertson's that shut down. Damn, there's a whole other new neighborhood back here. It's ridiculous. I noticed over by the neighborhood there's a huge American flag flying. Just look at all the destruction, this rape of nature and there's an American flag. Man, screw the American flag. We need to have an Earth flag.

                   Turning left on Arborwood. Let's see what happens.

     6:19am  Turning right on Bent Branch.

     6:21am  Turning left on Thaddsford.

     6:25am  Turning left on Sidbury Circle.

     6:30am  Got to Dover Ridge. I'm going to keep walking South by the tennis courts.

                   Now entering Northwest Crossing.

     6:40am  I'm on Marsh Creek now. I'm walking a little Northeast. I don't know. I'll just walk where I end up.

                   I want to go South. I'm turning left on Andtree. It might be Sandtree, but the S is gone. And I'm turning right right here, not left.

                   It's been drizzling all morning long. Good thing I got my poncho.

                   My raincloak I got in Berkeley(8-13-03, 9:45pm).

     6:45am  I just walked Timebluff and turning right on Silent Oak.

                   I ended up on Tezel road right here. I'm over here by Billy Bob's Beds.

     6:52am  I just stopped and took a big gulp of water and a hit of weed. Oh yeah, last night at the hospital those girls wouldn't listen to me and I told them off. Umm, David, the security guard told me, "Victor, why don't you step outside?" I walked outside and I saw them talking to shit to David about me. They were all pointing at me. I walked in and said, "Hey, this conversation looks interesting. What are you guys talking about? You're not talking about me, are you?" David said, "Victor, why don't you step outside?" I told him, "Nah, it's kind of chilly out there. I'm going to stay in here." He said, "Oh, okay." Hehe, that's like the second time he's tried to tell me to do something and I told him no and he didn't do anything. One time before, like over a year ago, a bus driver, I got on with my walking stick and the driver got all pissed off. He said, "Oh, you can't bring that on the bus!" I had told him, "It's a walking stick!" He said, "That can be used as a weapon." I told him, "So can my fist." I told him, "I'm just going to stand here with my stick and you're going to do your job and drive the bus. I paid my fare." He had told me he wasn't going to go anywhere. I just stood there and told him, "That's alright. I got plenty of time to stand up for my rights." He went and got David and David got on the bus and told me, "Victor, please get off the bus." I told David, "No, I won't." David said, "So you refuse?" I said, "That's exactly right." David just got off the bus, hehe.

     7:00am  It's raining hard now.

     7:06am  I finally got to the end of Silent Oak, Coral Spring. It's over here by Mainland.

                   Turning left on Coral Spring.

     7:11am  I'm going to rest here at, it used to be called Rod's Quick Stop. Not anymore. I'm going to sit down and rest.

     7:22am  I had a good rest at the Rod's Quick Stop. Which is now the Mainland Quik Market. Beer Lotto Groceries. 210-509-6619. Give them a call.

                   One dude came up to me and asked me if I had slept there last night. I guess he thought I looked homeless. I told him, "No man, I didn't sleep here. I just walked like five miles."

                   I'm going to walk over to Bandera by the Walmart and catch the bus.

                   Oh yeah, my mom told me she got some money from my grandpa for me. Fifty bucks he gave me for my birthday. I think I deserve to get a pipe from Planet K. Hopefully that awesome sneak-a-toke I had with the wooden mouthpiece. I bought it in 2002 like three times. It's fifteen dollars.

                   Actually, the first time I got it, the night before I left for my walk to California, my friend Marie took me up to Planet K, like after closing. The guy came up to the door and I told him, "I'm about to take off hitchhiking to California and I need to get a sneak-a-toke." He comes out with this big selection of pipes. There was this badass one with the wooden mouthpiece that I liked. I saw the price-tag on it and told him, "It's fifteen dollars, man?" He told me, "Give me five and it's yours." He hooked me up. Well, anyway I need to buy it again.

                   Then I shall be complete once more. Muhahahaha.

     7:40am  The weirdest thing. I hear a drum. I'm just walking down Mainland and I hear a drum. Oh wait, that's not a drum, haha. I got a flashback from Arcata. I figured out what it was. Since it's drizzling, it's the drips going down the waterspout. That's hilarious man. I'm stupid.

                   It's really cool. It reminded me of Arcata and the kids playing drums in the plaza.

     7:41am  I saw this kid walking down Mainland and I told him, "Hey, wanna smoke a bowl?" He looked at me and looked away real quick. Because I look like a homeless bum walking down the street with my rain poncho and army pants and a walking stick. That's funny. He ignored me right away.

                   I was trying to get him high.

                  Sweet, all the traffic is backed up here. I'm going to get me some good publicity today. I'm walking down the sidewalk. 

                  I'm going to get splashed again. I got splashed earlier.

                  Gotta do my laundry tonight.

                  I just came to the Mobil gas station on Mainland and Bandera. I saw this guy walking and I told him, "Hey, how's it going? Got time for a story?" He said, "No, I can't," and kept walking. I told him I wasn't asking for anything. Ah, he can just wait to hear about it when the rest of the world does.

     7:52am  I just walked up to the buses at the Walmart. Man, I've walked non-stop since this morning. I'm going to go behind this wall and take a hit and take a piss.

     8:01am  I walked over to the wall to take a piss and there's tons of mud. My boots are all caked with mud now. I stood in this little puddle on the street to loosen up the mud. Then I got the idea to graffiti here on the street with mud. I walked back scraping the mud on the street. I wrote FUCK 

real big and I took a picture of it.

     8:18am  Man, that was a badass presentation I had with this one girl. When I first got on the bus I saw her and asked her, "Hey, have I ever told you my story?" She looked at me weird and said, "What?" I told her my story and she got all into it. She was all about it. She didn't have an email address though. She just got off at Marshall High School. Badass, she's going to go tell all her friends about it, dude.

                   I just impregnated Marshall High School with hope. That's so awesome.

     8:35am  I got to University Hospital.

     9:02am  I had a badass presentation with the girl inside the hospital here. I told her my whole story. I got her email address. Let me see what it is. It's sinfullove2003@yahoo.com.

     9:05am  Dee just hooked me up with five dollars! I didn't even ask her for it.

     9:17am  Man, that girl was awesome. That girl Dee was awesome. She's this really pretty black girl. She gave me like five dollars! She had heard me telling that girl my story inside. She hooked me up with five dollars!

                   Awesome, dude. I got some believers. This is perfect. I'm on my way to Planet K now. I'm going to go buy, umm, I got more than enough now. Not only did I get fifty dollars from my grandpa, but I got five more now. I'm going to go get whatever I want.

     9:25am  I got off the 534 at Wurzbach and Evers. I'm going to go to Tia Loli's Mexican Restaurant where she always hooks me up.

     9:30am  Wow, I was going to actually order like a bean and cheese taco for like ninety nine cents. I was going to pay for it and everything. She told me, "You can just go sit down. We won't charge you."

     9:35am  Sweet, she gave me two tacos. She's going to give me some coffee too. Awesome.

                   Sylvia es su nombre, como la ultima vez.

                   She came over to me and I asked her in Spanish, "You know what I'm doing, right?" She nodded her head and said, "Don't worry about that."

                   Mmmm, this coffee is good.

     9:45am  I'm at Planet K waiting for them to open. Man, what a magical morning I have had. I got money and I'm going to get my pipe. I don't even know what I'm going to get. What an awesome day.

                   Oh yeah, and some other lady at the Mexican food place told me, "Yeah, I saw you on the bus."

     10:17am  What was your name again? Stephanie. I was telling her my story here at the Planet K and she ended up hooking me up with that pipe! Like, she volunteered it! She's the manager here. I have been equipped. Man, this is too good to be true. After my story I told her the pipe that I needed and she went, "Well, how's this for generosity," and handed me the pipe!

     10:20am  The manager hooked me up! That's so awesome! At Planet K! What a great morning I'm having. She listened to me. She ended up being the manager and I might be able to get a job there! That'd be awesome! I asked her, "Hey, can I get a job here?" She said, "I can give you an application."

                    What a magical morning I'm having.

                    Oh yeah, I got hooked up. That's so awesome.

     10:25am  I'm going to walk to the hospital. Oh, that's right. I've got a good transfer. Umm, maybe I'll save it. I'll just walk it and get seen some more.

     10:30am  Man, I just realized I should've told that girl at the Planet K, "Remember how I said good things come to those who wait?" Look what happened. She hooked me up.

                      I love it! I love it! I love it!

                      I was totally willing to spend fifteen dollars on that thing. I didn't ask or anything.

                      And I even have an extra five dollars.

                      Shweeeeeeet!

     10:38am  I walked over to the bus stop over here over by Newcome. I saw this dog and tried to get his attention. I ran off after him and started chasing him. He all took off running. That's hilarious. I'm free. I can do that if I want to.

     10:45am  Oh yeah, I forgot to mention when I was over by the Walmart, I picked up this Yu-gi-oh! card over by that wall. For some reason I'm going to hold on to it. There's another one I picked up before that I left on my mom's table. I'll tell you what it is when I pick it up again.

                     Man, I'm so glad I got my bracelet back. I could've sworn I lost it.

     10:56am  I just changed out the tennis ball on my stick. I'm over here at the bus stop. I've been standing here for a while. Cool, there's the bus.

     11:02am  I got to the hospital. I don't know what I'm going to do today. I already got Planet K done. I wrote that down. Let me see what else I have.

     11:07am  I'm going to use the restroom. The driver said he'd wait for me. Let's see if he gives me a courtesy ride too.

     11:08am  Boy, not only did that bus driver wait for me while I used the restroom, but he's hooking me up with a ride too! I appreciate it, brother.

     11:25am  I just had an awesome presentation on the bus. These two black girls that got off at West. I'm going to go to The Rocks 

and see who comes to smoke for lunch.

     11:30am  Man, I'm having some great sales! I got to West and I was talking to this black girl on the bus. She agreed with everything I said, man. She was shaking her head up and down the whole time. She didn't have an email address, though. I'm going to walk to The Rocks now and see who goes back there. They're probably going to call the cops on me.

     11:41am  I'm walking to HR. I'm going to ask them how many times I can come back.

     11:48am  I went to HR and they told me it was only thirty days that I would have to wait. She's going to look into it. I'm going to come back Monday and see when I can come back. Hehe, I'm going to come back to West just to train and quit again. It's easy money. I don't care if I get banned.

                      Screw West. I'm going to take them for all they're worth.

                      I'm going to go back up to The Rocks and see if anybody is there.

     11:57am  I'm over at The Rocks, just sitting here stoned. I was thinking, "I'm just going to be patient and wait for somebody to come back here." I need to get some more weed. Dude, I can't believe the weed I've been smoking on has lasted me so long. That five dollars worth that I got from some guy on the bus. A long time ago. I'll look it up and see how long ago. This morning I just smoked the last of that ½ ounce that I had bought from that dude I met over by Wurzbach and Evers.

                     I just figured out I have a good project to do. I'm going to go downtown and talk to the police about my case. I'm going to ask if it's been too long to press charges (check out1-4-04). Screw the security guards at the Greyhound station. Screw  them.

     12:08pm  I've decided I'm going to indulge in a Jumbo Jack here at Jack in the Box.

     12:17pm  I came to the Jack in the Box and got a Jumbo Jack finally. It took them a long time to make it. When I first got there I noticed the cashier, this pretty girl. When it was my turn I saw her name was Ryan. Me not thinking anything, I said, "You're name's not really Ryan, is it?" I thought she might be wearing someone else's nametag. She said, "Yeah, it is." I had told this girl, umm this guy as it turns out, my ideas outside one time before. I thought, "Oh shit, I hope I didn't offend this guy by thinking he was a girl." I don't think he was offended. Well, he makes a cute girl. I am positive I am not the first person to confuse him for a girl.

     12:24pm  I had a Jumbo Jack with cheese. It was damn good. I think I'm going to go to SAC.

     12:25pm  I finished up at Jack in the Box. I'm going to walk back to West. I'm going to catch the bus to SAC. The 91. I'm going to go type my shit up at the library. It's Friday. The last day of the week to do that.

                      I gotta go to school. When I want to! Haha.

     12:27pm  I'm just going to stand here at the intersection and get seen. All this traffic is backed up and everyone is looking at me talking into my tape recorder, hehe.

     12:32pm  I'm sitting here waving the peace sign at all the cars that drive by at Huebner and Fredericksburg. This guy pulled up in a red car and said, "Hey man, did you ever find that weed?" Some guy who remembered me.

     12:33pm  I'm sick and tired of waiting for the bus. I'm going to walk to the cemetery that's across the street. The Lockehill Cemetary.

 

                      Let's see if anything weird happens. I'll smoke some weed in the cemetery, hehe.

     12:44pm  Cool, there's a grave with the name Eckert. I bet you ten bucks that that's who Gus Eckert, the street that's real close to here is named after. Let me check the name on it and see if it says Gus.

                     Yup, sure enough it says Gustave. August 28, 1854 to February 4, 1930. That's awesome. And his wife Christine. I called that. I know San Antonio.

                     On the back of it, it just said Eckert on it.

                     I'm going to walk around and look at all the names now.

                     Oh, his whole family is buried here. This one says, "In memory of Emily." The daughter of Gustave C. Eckert. Born February 23, 1875, died August 5th of 1893. It says, "Dying is but going home."

                     We've got Ludwig Eckert and Augusta Gurfors, I don't know who that is. It seems like all the Eckerts are here. Home sweet home, San Antone.

     1:00pm  I just got a picture of my arch, evil nemesis USAA.

 

                    The mile-long building.

     1:07pm  I'm here patiently waiting for the 91. I don't know if I'll get a courtesy ride or not.

     1:10pm  Screw it, I don't want to wait for the bus. I should be walking. Not wasting time. I'm going to walk. I'm going to walk all the way to the hospital if I want to. I'm still assuming the bus is going to give me a courtesy ride, hehe.

     1:16pm  I got to the bus stop in front of the Parkdale apartments. 603 or 91.

     1:17pm  Raul Fuentes gave me a courtesy ride. I appreciate it, brother.

                   The temperature outside is forty two degrees Fahrenheit. I didn't know you could check the temperature on the bus. Awesome.

                   The bus driver, Mr. Fuentes noticed my walking stick and he said that he makes them. I said, "Cool, can I have one?" He said yeah, sure. I'm going to email him. His email is 2kf5cks@aol. Sweet, donation for the cause.

     1:32pm  Got to Medical Center. The hospital.

                   The bus driver was cool, man. I got on and said, "Hey, can I get a free ride?" He said, "Yeah sure, hop on," and he handed me a transfer! I didn't even ask for it. He hooked me up. I told him all my stuff. He wouldn't listen to me, but I got his email address. Oh yeah, he told me he makes walking sticks and he's going to hook me up. I had said, "Hey, can I have one?" He said sure. He says he has like fifteen or so.

                   Hehe, I'm thinking the second walking stick I'll get will be my traveling-partner's walking stick whenever I get a girlfriend.

     1:55pm  I just had this great presentation with this girl on the bus. At the end she was all, "Good luck." I told her, "Thanks a lot, sister. Tell your friends." She said, "Oh, I will."

     1:56pm  Groundscore, I just found me a transfer. Awesome. It's good too.

     2:32pm  I came to Travis Park. I'm going to get me a hotdog. Then I'm going to talk to cops about my thing. My case.

     2:48pm  I had originally planned to go to SAC, but I was talking to this chick on the bus who was all bitching about money in the back. I thought, "Let me go see if I can give this girl some hope." I told her my story. She didn't listen to me that much. I came to Travis Park. Oh yeah, I was going to talk to the police about my case. That's what I'm going to do.

     2:55pm  I just talked to some officer at the cop's place. I didn't have the card with the case number on it. He said they need to look it up. I told him what happened and he said, "That's not right. We've had problems with them before. You might have an issue with Greyhound."

     3:04pm  I'm going to go hypnotize some squirrels with my stick at Travis Park.

     3:10pm  Mike smoked me out in the park. We smoked a bowl. I miss smoking out of glass.

     3:44pm  Oh yeah, today's Friday the 13th.

     3:47pm  These two girls were walking behind me and I turned around and asked them, "Hey, can I tell you guys a really interesting story? I'm not asking for anything." They said, "Oh no, we're late. We've got practice, sorry." I'm going to walk down to The Riverwalk and talk to somebody. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I have a couple hours to play around downtown. I considered leaving because it's Friday the 13th and I don't want anything bad happening to me.

     3:50pm  I just fell on my ass! I was walking down the sidewalk and fell on my ass. I'm all stoned, haha.

                   Whoa, creepy. Right after I mentioned that.

                   Oh yeah, I'm walking to the Riverwalk. I fell on my ass. Someone said, "Are you ok?" I'm going to go down these stairs to the river.

     3:52pm  I'm on The Riverwalk now telling people hello. I can't believe I fell on my ass.

     3:58pm  These people walked by and said, "We saw you playing with the squirrels earlier."

     4:01pm  I'm coming out of The Riverwalk on Augusta Street.

     4:09pm  I am sure people appreciate that I ask them if they're willing to listen. People back out all the time. Just right now some people told me, "Oh no, we're going home right now." I asked them what they were in such a big hurry for. They told me, "We're just going home."

                   This one bus driver didn't give me a ride. He was all, "Everybody's gotta pay fare."

     4:25pm  3068 is hooking me up with a courtesy ride. I appreciate it, brother.

     4:26pm  I'm on the 91 right now. When I asked,the driver said, "You don't have like a nickel or anything?" I told him thanks anyway and started stepping off the bus. He waved me back on and said, "You forgot your bus pass, right?" and winked at me. I went, "Umm, yeahhhhhh." He let me on, hehe. I'm recording myself here and people probably think I'm crazy, hehe.

     4:35pm  That bus driver even gave me a transfer! He just got off right now. He switched out with another bus driver. He looked back at me and said, "Here, want this?"

                   Calling the shots again.

     5:00pm  I dropped my sack of weed out of my pocket. This black couple got on the bus and pointed it out to me. Awesome. So I got it back.

     5:10pm  I'm at the hospital. University Hospital. Maybe I'll catch the bus back to my mom's house. I'm kind of tired.

                   Not really, just bored. I'm hungry.

     5:28pm  I'm going to get on the 610.

     6:07pm  I just got dropped off by the Citgo. I'm walking to my mom's house.

                   Man, my feet hurt. I'm tired.

                   Oh yeah, I just got to my mom's house and the front door is wide open. Hello? Anybody here?

     6:18pm  I called my mom. I told her, "Mom, the door was unlocked when I got home." She told me Laura was the last one to leave. My irresponsible sister. It's probably been unlocked all day. It was wide open. Dumbass sister.

                   Man, I'm hungry.

     6:35pm  This pisses me off. Somebody's been using my bowl. Damnit, I gotta wash it now.

                   Ugh, I hate my mom's house.

     6:40pm  My mom just called me and asked me if I wanted anything from Sonic. Thanks, mom. I appreciate it.

     7:45pm  My ass is going to sleep. I'm tired.

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