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 Ventura, CA

Sunday December 31, 2006

     9:49am  Guess where I am at, of all places. I am at the Target. Oh yeah, last night I found out they have a paved jogging path all the way to the Target from River Haven basically. I just rode a bike we stole from the tweaker camps. I just rode up here with Si, Silent. I'm going to fly my sign here in front of the Target again. I am considering going to Sanjón instead.

     10:02am  I have a badass display set up here. I wish I had a camera. There's bums everywhere, at each exit. I'm lucky I was able to secure this spot right in front of the parking lot, next to these short bushes. I have the bike propped up here along the bushes. I already stashed my weed in case a cop comes by. On the bike I can have my WORLD PEACE THROUGH MARIJUANA and havethisbook.com displayed. I'm holding my hook a brother up, smoke a brother out sign.

     10:08am  This other homeless guy Ed just gave me a cigarette. He told me, "I don't think you'll make any money until after noon." I told him, "It's alright. I'm just doing this for the cause."

     11:51pm  Oh yeah, I never told you. I gave up at Target. Nobody gave me shit. It was cool how I got to display my signs. Then when I was riding back to River Haven on a stolen bike, these tweaker spotted me and came up to me with, "Where did you get that bike?" Me knowing that this guy knows where I got it(because it was his), I told him, "We found it in one of those camps out there. We thought it was all abandoned and shit." He told me, "Oh no, that bike was a Christmas present. That's my wife's bike, but I want the other one. Go get it." I told him, "I didn't see another one, but I'll go look for it." He was insistent and said, "I want it right now." I told him, "Then you know what, you go look for it." He walked passed the River Haven fence with me and just then he said he would catch up, that he was going to tell his friend something. So I walked straight to our tent and said, "Carol, some tweaker is coming to get his bike back." So Carol went and got Mark Watson and some other guys and we were going to go meet the tweakers. They had just taken off though. I mean, I didn't like the fact that we were stealing their bikes in the first place. Tweakers are people too, but Carol despises them.

     12:05pm  What happened with the tweakers, Carol? Carol: "They came and got their bike back. I just wanted them to get the fuck out of here because they're tweakers and I don't like tweakers."

     5:43pm  I didn't tell you. I went for a New Years Eve walk. Carol wants to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2 again. I saw that movie not too long ago and it sucked. Nothing like the first one. So I'm going to go for a walk to the harbor and see if I can find somebody to tell my story to.

     7:32pm  Michelle was nice enough to give me a cigarette in the Ventura Harbor. I appreciate it, Michelle. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     8:55pm  Hell yeah, I've told some excellent stories here at the harbor tonight. This place isn't too good of a place for me to tell my story at. There's not that many people who will listen. I did get through to some people though. It was awesome. I handed out my webpage out like crazy, though.

     9:37pm  Hell yeah, I had the most awesome presentation right when I was walking back. When I was walking back this couple listened to me hardcore. Odyssey and all. In the end the guy told me, "Thanks for the stories. Thanks a lot."

Next day..