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                                                                                                                                   Arcata, CA

Saturday June 2, 2007

     6:02am  I woke up around five thirty. The birds woke me up. They were singing in the tree I slept under. I'm walking to the Safeway to take my morning shit.

     6:49am  Oh yeah, when I walked up to Long's, right when I walked in front of Long's Drugs I saw Bobbie, the girl who took me to Eddy Lepp's birthday party in Upper Lake not too long ago. She looked all frustrated and stressed out and pissed off and sad. I asked her, "Hey, what's wrong?" She was all stressed out because she had to move. I told her, "I have nothing to do this morning. I'll help you out." I have to wait until I get my bus ticket from the Endeavor anyway. When we got to her apartment she had two guys sleeping on the couch. I was thinking, damn, she's got to move all this shit today. The landlord is going to be pissed. She hasn't packed anything at all. She left everything to the last minute. What a procrastinator. It's a big chore. I don't know how much I am going to help with.

     8:49am  I came over to Bobbie's. She's all stressed out this morning because of moving. I helped her move parts of her couch into her truck. Then she called her Dad and he's getting a trailer for her tomorrow morning, so I moved the couch back into the apartment. I'm going to help her tomorrow morning. She's got a scale in the bathroom, so I'm going to weigh all the stuff I am hauling right now. When I get on there without my pack it says I weigh, I've gained some weight, actually. It says I weigh 167. Let's see how much I weigh with my backpack on.

                   203 pounds. Let me figure that out real quick. Thirty six pounds.

     11:04am  I am taking off walking into town. I scored a shower at Bobbie's. I did the dishes and cleaned up her kitchen. She cooked breakfast for everybody. There were a couple couch surfers there too. Jake and Jacob, I think their names were.

     11:30am  I came to my spanging spot. I didn't recognize anybody. I did a couple laps around the farmer's market with my havethisbook.com sign on my pack and my Fuck Bush shirt on, hell yeah. I had a badass presentation with Lorenzo, this dude who saw my WPTMJ sign and asked me, "Hey, how are you going to do that?"

                      My script has evolved. Now when I ask them if they'll check out my webpage I say, "It's free. Why wouldn't you? Man, nobody wants world peace! Ignorance is bliss. Have you always been that ignorant? Good little slaves. I Was just testing you."

                      Right now these two ladies walked by and obviously ignored me. I started my rant I described a minute ago. I reeled one of them back and she said, "I'll check out your website." I handed it to her.

                      It's not religious, I promise.

     12:39pm  I was just standing there and Jeremy hooked me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, Jeremy. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     12:56pm  Jack just volunteered me a sandwich, hell yeah. I appreciate it.

     1:51pm  Jessica stopped and talked to me. I talked to her for a while. She's going to hook me up with some mushrooms. Awesome, awesome.

     2:40pm  Me and Jessica came up to HSU. Tried to go to the library, but they're not open today. That sucks. We sat down at some benches and ate some mushrooms. Jessica is telling me about energy. Jessica: "Well, I had all these great ideas. People spend so much time exercising and recreationally sending energy. There's all kinds of different forms of energy that people use. Why not engineer little devices to harvest it? That way when they want to run their toaster oven, they can just plug it into their own home electric grid that they put energy into through all their little devices. Or you could have exercise facilities that has a free membership, where people go do the row machine and the resistance in the row machine pulls the turbine that puts the energy into a battery, like a car battery. Well, the first thing I was look at was how to make a bicycle generator with a stationary bicycle that you put the power in, you turn the wheels and it turns the turbine that collects, it generates power. You can use a car alternator to charge a car battery. I'm not sure. People need to get used to the idea that you can have an energy grid at home that you can put power into by various sources. Like my friend Victor uses food to fuel his motivation, you know, all you gotta do is eat good food and there's your power source. Put your energy in and use it in the way you want to."

                      How much would this cost, again?

                      Jessica: "I don't know. I don't know how much the cost of the initial investment would be, probably a few hundred dollars. You gotta get a car alternator, or you gotta get a bike. And you would have to have the know-how to put it all together. I don't have more in-depth information, but if you do a Google for bicycle electricity generators then you should be able to find this information."

                      And how much money does this make people?

                      Jessica: "It's more about how much money they save."

                      Note the sarcasm. How much money do they make. Why aren't we using those already?

                      Jessica: "Yeah, yeah, right. They don't make other people money. They save. They make negative money. That's why people don't know about it. People could get creative with this on what they do to make the power. Then I thought of negative uses of this, like a mom telling her son Billy, "Ok, you have to go out there and seesaw for five hundred gigawatts before you come in and eat your dinner." People might get abusive as to telling others to go put more energy on the grid. We need more!"

     4:12pm  That's weird. My tape recorder is working again. It wasn't earlier. It's on the fritz. Since I ate some mushrooms, I am walking to the park. I got a calling. Redwood Park. Maybe I'll run into my accomplice Jeremy or that girl last night Jenny at the park.

     5:10pm  I didn't tell you. I am walking back into town. Oh yeah, I manifested Jeremy. He wants to stay in Arcata. I can rule out Jenny too. Ill probably just take off by myself pretty soon.

                      Oh yeah, I keep forgetting. I am riding the Greyhound bus back to San Antonio. Hell yeah.

     5:52pm  I am just sitting here tripping on mushrooms in the plaza in Arcata. Rollins just up and hooked me up with some vegetarian burritos. I appreciate it, Rollins. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     6:29pm  I am talking to Christa. She's friends with Jessica, who I just hung out with. I'm telling Christa my story and she told me to look up IWW. The Industrial Workers of the World. Christa: "It's a hundred year old union and they're about direct action and destroying the wage system. They're radical revolutionaries. They've been at it for years. They have a long history out here on the West Coast. They would totally be something you would be way down for." Thanks for helping me educate the masses.

     7:23pm  Me and all the other Arcata homeboys are smoking some hash around the corner. This Drake Goodall cop pulls up and talks to us. He didn't mess with us.

     7:47pm  Tamara was nice enough to give Jade the rest of her leftovers. Jade guilted her into it. Whatever works, huh, Jade. I love you, Jade.

                    I'm a self-employed long distance walker slash photojournalist, professional storyteller and free spirit.

     8:37pm  I smoked some weed. Oh yeah, I ran into Jenny again. She shacked up with the hash guy from last night with dreadlocks, so she's off the mission. She threw away the application with me. So that's out of the question. I am taking off by myself in four days.

     9:29pm  Just had a good presentation with these Jewish kids. They told me good luck and shook my hand.

     10:00pm  Rhonda just hooked me up with a dollar. Just out of the blue.

     11:20pm  I just had a good presentation at the Spotlight video. The guys name was Sean.

     11:37pm  Carla and Talen, they saw me at the Spotlight Video a minute ago. I'm telling them my story in the Safeway parking lot. Carla offered me a cigarette.

     11:58pm  Walking into Safeway.

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