111303

 

Arcata, CA

Thursday November 13, 2003

     11:21am  Texas gave me half a brownie, even thought I already had one.

                     Cool, Kati's going to cook me up some migas! Tortillas with egg in it.

                     Mmmm, breakfast. It's all late.

     1:40pm  Man, I've had another lazy day. Kati and I had some really great sex earlier. I went down on her for a long time. We had some kickass sex . . . and took a shower. We took a shower first, but had to rinse afterwards, too. Kati left for work and I'm going to take off in a minute. I'll lock up before I leave. I am one to be trusted. This is awesome. It's like I have a home away from home. I feel so comfortable here. Kati is just awesome. I'm going to miss her so much.
                   Now, I don't have shit to do. I'm all caught up. So, I'm going to walk over to the skatepark which I've heard is close to here. I'll ask around about El Jefe. I'll ask where Hunts Road is then I'll go look for him.

     2:06pm  I'm taking pictures of Kati's pretty house.

 

She had me put up all these push-pins for Christmas tree lights up around the ceiling. It's excellent, comfortable lighting.

                   Here's another picture.  

     2:07pm  I'm leaving to go find the skatepark.

     2:15pm  This is so cool. In all my time in Arcata, I've never walked in this neighborhood. Foster Road. I'm going to go find the skatepark. Oh, there's Sunset Avenue right up there. This girl just told me to turn right up there and that I'd find the park.

     2:21pm  I've never been to this part of Arcata. There's a badass little skatepark here.

 

On Sunset Avenue.

     2:30pm  I came up to the skatepark and there's a cop there. He kicked all the skaters out of there because they didn't have a helmet. So there were like four kids skating around in front of the skatepark. I went up to them and asked them, "Hey, so you kids got 86'ed from the skatepark? Do you have time for a story? It's more of a legend." They started listening to me and I told them my mission-objectives. They just gave me these weird looks and started skating. Oh well, I tried.

                  Oh yeah, I wanna go through this trail that's around here along the railroad tracks.

     2:39pm  I stopped on the railroad tracks where it was all pretty. It seemed pretty private so I tried doing a little Tai-Chi. I did it for like five minutes or so, but then people started coming.

                   I just took a picture of these nice bridges on this trail I am on.  

                   I still can't believe I've never been out here before.

                   "I have peered into the human soul . . . and I saw it was good."

     3:04pm  I walked all the way back by the donut shop. Nicole just gave me a piece of gum. Thanks, sister.

     3:23pm  At the donut shop, up walked AJ. I threw the gum wrapper on the sidewalk and AJ flipped out saying, "He littered! He littered! How dare him litter?! He's a hippie! Spare some change for a donut?"

                    More AJ: "I eat people's flesh. I eat people's flesh. I eat people's flesh, yes I do. I eat people's flesh."

     3:29pm  Justin was nice enough to give me a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother.

     3:55pm  I just had a marvelous presentation with that guy who gave me the cigarette, Justin. He listened to every word I said and told me, "I'm with you, I'm with you."

     4:02pm  I ran into Sears and he told me that he had read an article in the paper at Long's Drugs about the barn raid. Sears told me it made front page and that there was a picture of Ranger Bob and all the "trash" he cleaned up.

4:10pm I walked over to Long's Drugs and looked through all the papers. I didn't see the story on any of them. That sucks.

             Maybe I'll go over to the police station and ask them about it.

              I came over to the public library. I'm going to see if I can find the story online.

             Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, Josie hooked me up with a donut. AJ had been crowding around me a lot while I tried to spange for a donut. I had accepted the fact that AJ was going to get spare change for a donut before me. Since he gets in people's faces and cramps my style when I want things. He went inside and asked Josie to hook him up . . and she did! So I went in there and she asked me what donut I wanted. I thanked her and told her I would pay her back. She hooked me up, too.

               I just ran into this one guy who recognized me and he said, "Hey, it's the guy who's going to save the world!" I told him, "Yeah, Arcata has sucked me in, the vortex it is. I need to go back home and put my webpage up."

               I decided I'm going to walk over to the Humboldt Brewery and ask around about El Jefe. Oh yeah, Kati's having her house-warming party tonight. I'm going to show up for that.

     5:56pm  I just took a picture of Geba with my stick. 

     6:39pm  Happy just hooked me up with some change for a donut. I appreciate it, brother.

     6:43pm  Sean just hooked me up with a quarter. I appreciate it, bro.

     6:50pm  I just got/ate a donut and I'm walking towards Kati's now.

     6:51pm  I just ran into Jessica and Crystal. They recognized me, but I didn't them. They looked real familiar though. I had met them at the barn.

     7:11pm  I'm at Kati's.

     7:57pm  Oh yeah, I showed up at Kati's and there was a big party here already. She had told me to come back around 7:30pm. I guess people came earlier. There's tons of people in the house. It's an all-out party. A house warming party. I'm sticking to myself, though. This is a total Raven project. Like every person who works at The Raven House is here tonight.

     11:10pm  I just took a picture of the party.  

Next day..