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                                                                                                              Ventura, CA

Tuesday December 23, 2008

     8:15am  I am leaving my squat at 700 Main.

     8:25am  The greedy ass at the Starbucks won’t let me use the restroom. I used it yesterday morning. Good little slave!

     8:47am  I went to the Mission Park bathroom and took a shit.

     9:58am  I walked all the way to Project Understanding. I’m going to take a shower after a whole hour of waiting. I met this beautiful 45 year old lady Cheryl with beautiful eyes. She’s totally listening to my story. I wish I could take her picture. My batteries ran out.

     11:02am  Beautiful Cheryl dropped me off downtown. I like Cheryl. She’s a great masseuse.

                     I scored a shower. I feel great!

     12:28pm  I walked all the way to Sanjon. I was going to walk to the pier to meet this Cheryl lady. She’s hot. She looks better without her makeup though. I already got two bucks.

     2:30pm  I am done spreading the word at Sanjon. I got like twenty bucks. I can go buy some supplies. I need to go to the Radio Shack and buy an adapter for my recorder so I can do my typing.

     3:20pm  Dan just walked by and volunteered me some food. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     4:50pm  I walked to Main Street and told my story to this cool guy who was playing a guitar. I went to Dexter’s to see if I could buy batteries there. They had some exorbitant prices for batteries. Screw that. Instead I came to the Radio Shack and spent the last of my money on just batteries. I bought twelve total for ten bucks. They have the adapter I need, but it’s like twelve bucks.

     4:55pm  It turns out that if I bought me a twenty sack of marijuana and ten dollars on batteries, that means I made at least thirty dollars today at Sanjon.

     6:36pm  Carl, who saw me at that homeless rally in the park the other day, he came over and he listened to my story at first. Then he gave me a backpack present.

     6:40pm  I haven’t made an update in a while. I had some great presentations with people. This girl Crystal heard me out good. She interrupted a couple times. She was a bit impatient, “Get to the point, get to the point.” I reminded her that when I had asked her she told me she would listen. Anyway, right now I was standing in front of the Bank of America under the light so everybody could see my shirt and just pass out my site as people walk by. A lot of people take it. This cop just ran me off from being in front of the ATM machines. He said I was scaring people. He walked up to me and asked me, “What’s your business here?” I told him I was just passing out my free website. He told me I couldn’t do that, no soliciting. He just told me to move. Didn’t even run my ID.

                   Carl’s website is pierpontbay.org

     8:44pm  What a great night of storytelling and passing out my website I am having. Right now I just gave my site to this programmer guy. Some hacker guy. He told me he was going to spread my stuff around.

                   Oh yeah, and earlier some guy just randomly gave me two bucks. He said, “Here, this is for marijuana.”

     9:00pm  I just ran into Will, who said he met me last time I was here.

     9:38pm  Lupe me dio un cigaro al frente en la Calle Main. Te lo agradezco, Lupe. Todo el mundo recibe credito.

     10:20pm  I am already on the rooftop with my pal Lorenzo. I got tired of spreading the word and it was pretty dead. Oh yeah, the guy who hooked me up with a backpack of stuff, it had a card in it with a five dollar bill. This other guy gave me two dollars explicitly for marijuana. So we went to Subway and got some badass breakfast omelet sandwiches for only two bucks each. Lorenzo was still bitching about being hungry. Anyway we came to squat. I got batteries for my camera today, so I’ll take pictures in the morning. Later on.

 

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