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                                                                                                             Sacramento, CA

Thursday May 7, 2009

     8:35am  I woke up around six or so with enough sleep. I'm out here flying my sign again. Spreading the word.

     9:12am  Ha, I forgot to tell you what happened. Craig, the guy from yesterday morning who gave me three dollars just pulled up and parked. He went, "Victor! I am glad you are here. I checked out your website and you're the real deal."

                   Craig: "The thing that impressed me was that you said okay, take it back. I thought that was a very estoot maneuver. See, I was giving you moral shit, and you put it back on me."

                   I just want people to check out my website. That's it.

                   He pulled over and told me he couldn't believe I was there. He's going to take me out to breakfast. I appreciate it, Craig. Thanks for feeding the peace machine. No accidents.

                   Craig: "Do you know what the state of nature is? That's where there is no civilization. As burdensome as one might think civilization is. What he(?) said is that in a state of nature humanity without civilization life is nasty, brutish and short. Meaning that all of these trappings, all of these social constructs that we have, this social order that can be perceived as being imposed on us, without it his view that things were really difficult. It was dog-eat-dog. It was always the brutal over the weak. I understand that because of your experiences you may have some view that people are kind and I respect that, but desperate people do desperate things."

                   Uneducated people do desperate things.

                   Craig: "But then how many of have been uneducated? We, humanity have been here for thousands of years. Education in this kind of civilization we live in is very, very recent. You're thirty. Fifteen hundred years ago you would have been dead by now. Disease, hunger, trauma, something. That's what I'm getting at. 1500 years ago you never would have traveled more than five miles from where you were born, because you didn't have all this. Infant mortality was huge. People gave birth to seven babies."

                   Dude, this guy Craig was awesome! He's a lawyer. He pulled over and told me he had seen my website. He took me out for breakfast at IHOP. I had a huge ass breakfast and he told me that before he dropped me off he wanted to give me twenty dollars too. We came to the ATM here at TheGoldOne, by the Belair. Way to support the cause.
                    
     11:04am  I had an awesome time with Craig. I really hope I made him think. I asked him if he believed in you reap what you sow and he said he didn't believe any of that stuff. When he dropped me off he told me, "You have a great day, Victor. I really enjoyed the time with you." Hell yeah, he fed the peace machine and he gave me twenty bucks. He even gave me a ride downtown too. I had gone to Rene's house but he wasn't home.

                     Run From the Cure, on YouTube. I'll look that up for sure, thanks.

                     This beautiful lady Darlene I just had a good presentation with. She had walked by me earlier and I told her she had a beautiful smile. When I saw her again I offered her my website and told her some of my story.

     2:43pm  I just had an awesome presentation with Dennis for like half an hour. He asked me for one of my websites. He saw me handing them out earlier.

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     5:10pm  Craig gave me a ride downtown so I wouldn't have to ride the train. He was going to drop me off in Old Town, but I told him just to drop me off at St. Rose of Lima(that's where I usually score some world peace). I was walking around downtown seeing if I could find some "world peace." These two kids told me they were walking all the way to the 420 wall. Hey, I want to go to a 420 wall. So, I followed this Phoebe girl and her friend through the mall to Old Town. I ended up going anyway. I told them I had ten dollars on some weed. When we were walking through the mall some dude said he had some trees and we went in the Carl's Jr and he sold us a little nugget for ten bucks. See, we were walking to the 420 wall. I'm supposed to meet Peg downtown, so I just let them have a little bit of it and walked off. I borrowed this lady's cellphone and called Peg. She was just now getting on the light rail so I had time. I walked to the other side of the bridge and sat down and layered down. I took my green thermal pants off. I sat down and some kid came up to me and listened to my story. I was doing my FREE HUGS thing earlier too. People were loving it.

     5:42pm  I didn't tell you, I met up with Peg. I love Peg so much. I'm going to miss her so much when I leave, but I gotta go. I'm thinking about hitting UC Davis and Second Saturday this weekend. Today is Thursday so tomorrow I'll catch the bus to Davis in the morning and then come back for Second Saturday.

                   "My name is Lorena Dickson and I would love to be in your book."

                   "Serena Nicole. Serena as in serene, peaceful, calm and then Nicole which is Hebrew for victory of the people." You should try to live up to your name, that's what I'm doing.

                   Serena was this one beautiful princess.

                   Oh yeah, and earlier I was talking to Craig and he was all brainwashed. He doesn't believe in Karma at all. He's complacent and happy with the way things are. He said, "You would be surprised at how happy you can be playing the game." Ignorance is bliss.

     5:48pm  I came over to the Cesar Chavez Plaza. I'm waiting for Peg to come back. She went to the mall to buy new shoes. I was scanning around looking for people to tell my story to. I saw these girls Lea and Christine. They listened to my story great. Oh yeah, they hooked me up with some leftovers, awesome. Thanks for feeding the peace machine.

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     7:48pm  Ji is being cool enough to give me some change in front of the movie theaters. He's a security guard. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit.

     8:09pm  Peg and I are going to go on a little adventure, to her side of town. We're on the lightrail right now. Where are we going, Peg?

     8:25pm  We got off at the Watt/Manlove stop. We're sitting down on a bench.

     8:57pm  We got back on the train. I don't know where we're going.

                   Oh yeah, we're going to Vince's Motel.

     9:52pm  I should make an update. We stopped at Zinfandel and I went across the street to the Walmart and bought an image-maintaining compass for my walking stick. We're going to get a motel room tonight! Sweet, I'm going to get some lovin'.

     10:40pm  Peg and I just had some awesome sex right now. I love Peg. She's going to be so hard to leave. Right now we rode the train to Vince's Motel. See, before the Zinfandel stop we went to the taqueria and I got a burrito. After I left the Walmart the train was coming and I had to hop over the fence to make it time. I thought Peg had the plastic bag with the burrito, but she ended up not. My new compass was in the bag so I lost that too. Right now I'm hungry so I went walking around for food. I thought the sandwich shop was open because I saw a sign turned on. I went in and it ended up being a Korean food place. I told the nice lady I wanted to spend seven dollars there, to surprise me. She gave me this badass pork platter worth way more than seven dollars. She hooked it up. Beautiful girl. Before I left I asked her if they gave hugs in Korea and she said yes. She got an extra big squeeze from me.

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