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Gulfport to Saint Petersburg and back, FL

Thursday April 24, 2008

     6:25am  I woke up. Let's see how long I slept. 7.56 hours. Almost eight hours.

     7:24am  I am off for the day. I'm going to go fly my sign again. I might go type up my stuff. I've got my cassette in my pocket. I'm going to go see if I can get a courtesy ride on the 79.

     7:33am  The nice driver is giving me a ride on the bus. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, man.

                   He pulled over and I asked him for a courtesy ride. He asked me where and I told him, "Tyrone. I'm going to go spread the word." He told me, "You can't be spreading the word on my bus." I told him I wouldn't, that I would just sit down. At first he told me no and I went, "Come on, you don't want world peace?" He let me on. Hell yeah.

     7:54am  The eagle has landed. Oh yeah, on the way up here I saw SPC, the college. It's not that far from here at all. I can just walk to the college when I get tired of passing out my website. I'll go type up my stuff. I'm free again today. Just my stick and water bottle. No bags. See, yesterday I had stashed my tin of weed by the bus stop with one hit of weed. I forgot it when I left. I'm going to go get it and take it.

     8:12am  First donation of the day. I got a dollar, sweet.

                    I am out here in the median in front of the Vitamin Shoppe. There's a lot of traffic right now. I'm going to go back to the bus stop, I don't know. When I get called off.

                    Right now I offered my website to this black guy who had seen me at the Khan's in Gulfport yesterday. He told me, "You already gave me one."

                    F72-0ZP

     9:13am  I got like three dollars in change. I'm going to stop for now and walk to the school and type my stuff up. I'm going to go to McDonald's first and get some walking fuel.

     9:27am  I got me two egg McMuffins. I am walking to SPC now.

                   Just passed 9th Avenue. I think the school is this way.

     10:33am  I just had an awesome presentation with this girl. I walked up to 56th Street. I was hoping there would be someone outside soon to ask directions. I saw this girl painting the curb in front of this church. She's doing some community service. She listened to my story great. Odyssey and all. I've been standing here for like half an hour talking to her. She was wide-eyed and nodding through the whole presentation. She wouldn't let me take her picture though. I took a picture of the church. She gave me three cigarettes too.

     10:49am  I walked some more and I see SPC now. I'm almost there. I've got an extra sandwich in my pocket.

                     I couldn't do any typing because I didn't bring any headphones.

     12:08pm  Back at my spot on 22nd Avenue and 66th Street. My undercover spot. The sun is still up high, it's not undercover yet.

     12:20pm  Conner, who came and planted a sign for a 2bdr/1bath, he saw my shirt and hooked me up with a dollar. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     12:56pm  Hell yeah, I just got smoked out by this girl who saw me last time I was here. That one time when I talked to these kids at the bus stop by Life Skills. She said she was so glad she saw me again and turned the car around. Crystal, I think.

     1:05pm  I got smoked out rowdy. I took like four hits off this blunt. This girl who smoked me out at the bus stop a long time ago. My tape is about to run out. I'm having a blast.

                   Haha, I offered another off-duty cop my webpage and he showed me his badge. "You don't want world peace?" I asked him. He rolled down the window and told me, "What I recommend you do is find another place to..." I cut him off, "I'm just exercising my freedoms, sir."

     1:12pm  I'm having so much fun.

     1:13pm  Herbert just hooked me up with some weed, hell yeah! I got kicked down! I'm going to go wait for the bus now. That's a badass little spot right there. I should keep doing this.

     1:14pm  I got off the median because I had weed. One off-duty cop already told me shit. Just like the first time I did this, I got warned by an off-duty cop. I should've yelled at him, "I'm not afraid!" I thought since I had weed, I'd stop. But fuck it, I'll go to jail for my cause. I'll get bailed out by The Blueberry Patch in no-time. I need another good jail story. It's been four years.

     1:18pm  I am giving away my website hardcore. I'm making sure to turn around so people can read the back of my shirt. I'm going to keep spreading the word. Fuck the police.

     1:24pm  A cop just told me, "You, come over here!" Showtime.

     1:28pm  Ha, I totally jumped into my story with this cop. I didn't get his name, but he told me that they've gotten so many complaints about me today. That people are scared of me and my clown wig. I have been yelling at people hardcore. I knew they were going to call the cops. I'm always waiting for them. This cop seems pretty cool. I hope he doesn't search my pockets. I don't care. I'm not scared anyway. I'll tell him, "Hey, will you listen to my story? Officer Gilmore let me tell it to him."

     1:38pm  I got told to stop. Actually, I volunteered to stop. I told the cop, "I've spread my word enough today. I'll stop for now." I'm at the bus stop waiting for the 79. I had a badass day today. I got weed and the cops didn't take it. They didn't search me or nothing. I've got my story to protect me.

                   I told the cop, "When you're playing my game any reaction is a good reaction. There's no such thing as bad publicity." Officer Wilson.

     2:00pm  I forgot to tell you I'm on the bus. The same driver who hooked me up this morning. When I left SPC today he pulled up and I asked him, "Would I be pushing my luck if I asked for another ride." He said I sure would be. I was sure to wave a dollar bill in the air this time so he would stop. I gave him fifty cents, a nickel over and he said, "Well, you owed me five cents from the last time."

                   That cop told me that I was scaring people. That's right, be afraid you little slaves.

                   The cop was telling me, "You know you don't have the power to do that." I smiled and told him, "It'll be a surprise." I should've told him how my power was growing every single day. Each time I gave out my website.

     2:38pm  I got off close to Echo's house. I'm going to go smoke them out. She said she quit smoking but I don't believe it.

                   Echo's trashcan outside

     9:50pm  Man, I hung out at Echo's for a long time. I had gone over there to type up some stuff. She's got a computer there without internet. She was talking to me the whole time and she even accidentally deleted a whole day I had typed up. Echo, she doesn't need to be with this John guy, or he with her. I'm not saying so because I want to be with her. Not at all. I need to be free to do my mission. Echo is a bit out there and way unstable. I still really care about her a lot. She wants to be free. I even considered it and told her, "We'll go on a trip. We'll try it out."

     10:03pm  Man, I should elaborate more. I am sitting here in my comfortable room at The Blueberry Patch. I am loving this place. I am about to take a shower and do my laundry. I wanted to talk a little more about Echo. She's beautiful. She's another fairy nymph that has crossed my path. She has given me this big dose of loving. She totally wants to be free of her bounds, it's obvious. She's like "engaged" to this guy she's not really serious about. I am frankly worried about John. He's four years younger than her. She's twenty nine. John feels like he's found his soulmate with Echo. I don't think Echo reciprocates. She's always planning their breakup behind his back. I told her, "You shouldn't lead him on. You shouldn't keep playing along. You should let him know that there is something amiss." I mean, she's really considering taking off traveling with me. She's all trying to cover her bases so she can break free. Like have her mom watch her kids while she's traveling. She wants to go traveling with me. On one hand I think she'd be totally beneficial to my mission, but on the other hand I think she might be a detriment. I straight up told her, "You need to figure out a way to break free from all the ropes you have tying you down. I mean, she hasn't even started telling John how she plans to break up with him. He thinks you guys are engaged to be married. He thinks he found his soulmate. I told her, "If you can break free from that we will go on an evaluation journey and see how we travel together. I'm serious about my job. Echo is just, I don't want to label her, but she's brainwashed. She's a bible thumping minister.
                       I told her, "If you want to come traveling with me you have to believe in Love, not God. God is the personification of Love. Love is all we need. It's a big trick to control people. The God that you trust, which is on the back of the dollar bill, is destroying the world. It's a false God. We need to start believing in Love and start practicing what we preach." I don't know what's going to happen with Echo. I mean, I am really tempted to just wrap her up in my arms and caress her all over. I mean, I told John, just to calm his nerves(and because Echo asked me to) "I've been recording my life honestly, every detail of it for six years. I am bound to the truth and I refuse to compromise my mission. I assure you that Echo and my relationship will remain platonic while she is with you. I know the boundaries." I went over there and smoked them all out. I got hooked up with weed hardcore today. I still have a nugget left. I got some typing done at Echo's too. I am still only in Miami, but I'll get some more typing done later on.

Next day..