Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

The title of this missive is from “Burning of the Midnight Lamp” by Jimi Hendrix. For the first time since the auspicious year of 2014 for me, I have had to spend my birthday, Christmas, and probably New Years Eve alone. The year 2014 was phenomenal for me since I beat hepatitis-C with the assistance of about $100,000 USD of Harvoni which I assume was provided free of charge (actually $9.00 for three months copay out of pocket for me) by the pharmaceutical manufacturer in exchange for my personal data. I seem to recall I contracted hep-C by needle sharing heroin with a recovering drug addict prostitute I met at Renewal House in 1975 and we shared a makeshift rig in February 1976 when the House was about to close for good. As you can tell I was still interested in illicit drugs after my treatment at Renewal House under Professor Joan Read’s (Chairperson Psychology Department Georgia State University) psychological warfare on me. Coincidentally, I continued some illegal drug usage until sometime in the early to mid-1980s. I also relearned how to drive in either late 2014 or 2015 after approximately a year of not driving my old gasohol guzzling 2003 Mercury Mountaineer V8 2-wheel drive vehicle.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

I stepped out of my Ivory Tower into the world of the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and chronically poor on Valentine’s Day, Friday February 14, 2015. My menace to males’ girlfriend and myself went through my small remaining inheritance of approximately $80,000 in AFLAC stock in 2012 and 2013. I had a small income of around $16,000 a year beginning in September 2011 as an adjunct instructor in Information and Computer Technology at West Georgia Technical College mainly the LaGrange, Troup County, campus. Now due to my abnormal brain chemistry I am one of the fortunate sometimes insane members of our society to draw a “crazy check” (Social Security Supplemental Income) of $783 USD per month. I don’t see how I am supposed to live on that small federal stipend. I can’t get back on the Housing Voucher Program (formerly known as Section 8) that the Georgia Department of Community Affairs administers for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now I must pay all the $550 per month for my one-bedroom studio apartment. I also am not on Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP = Food Stamps) which is usually about $192 USD for a month. Ageism, etc. have gotten me into the vice grip of the chronically underemployed and unemployed.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

I have encountered and studied in exquisite detail essentially two types of human females that prey on vulnerable and naïve males: a well sexually trafficked and vengeful drug addicted prostitute and a well-meaning do good, altruistic, caring, and empathetic nurse who willfully abandons the men she is trying to heal. I don’t know which of these aberrant and diametric opposite female set of character traits I like or love best: either kill me with deceit, dishonesty, and denigrate my arts and sciences or feign and pretend to have interests in me beyond a hefty paycheck. I must state this adage of mine and many other humans: Amor Vincit Omnia or in English Love Conquers All.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

Dear Concerned Readers,

A lot of United States citizens don’t realize that Coca-Cola had various amounts of cocaine in its original formula from 1886-1929:

Coca-Cola Used to Have Cocaine in It

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-coca-cola/

I don’t know if the hydrochloride salt or free base of cocaine was utilized. The famous first psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud used the injectable cocaine hydrochloride salt in 1884:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/payngv/a-brief-history-of-freuds-love-affair-with-cocaine

http://www.freudfile.org/cocaine.html

Prohibition has never actually done in useful work in the United States. The act of banning a substance or behavior just makes it more prevalent in our country. I like William F. Buckley’s conservative and libertarian stance of legalizing all drugs and have their licensing, manufacture, sales, and taxation be done by our federal government. Such an action would take away the stigma and criminality of  a disenfranchised and ostracized United States much maligned and abused minority. Why aren’t the modern Republicans behind this idea which would render the illicit drug and female trafficking industries impotent in the face of an almost omnipotent United States government.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

Begin Email and my Facebook Post

I owe the whole staffs of our great and caring local Pathways Center Second Season, WellStar West Georgia Medical Center, and Emory Clark Holder Clinic, a humble and thorough apology. I would like to congratulate Doctor G. Ralston Major II, MD who was pivotal in getting my movement towards physical health started as soon as I was incarcerated for my own good and taken off my feet and diseased legs. I accosted Dr. Major while he was having breakfast one morning with his colleagues at Chick-fil-a. Instead of him getting arrogant and angry he asked me to setup an appointment to see him about my bad hereditary and environmental venous reflux disease. I don’t know if we exchanged business cards at that meeting or not, but he is a true real-life saver. Anyway, to move onward with my story of mental and physical rebirth, I was incarcerated for my own good in Troup County Jail on either Wednesday, May 8, 2019, or Friday, May 10, 2019. After a period of either 35 or 33 days, I was transferred to Pathways Center Second Season of LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia. I fought my internment at the mental health facility tooth and nail because I could not see the whole picture until it became crystal clear to me on Monday, December 23, 2019, or 27 days after my release from being in Troup County Jail again from October 17, 2019, to November 26, 2017, a period of 40 days. I was at Pathways Center Second Season for an astounding 127 days which I am sure is a record number of days that anyone had spent in the facility. Everything came together today with my appointment with Dr. G. Ralston Major II, MD at 2:00 PM this afternoon of Monday, December 23, 2019. Afterwards I finally got around to carefully studying my WellStar MyChart. Anyway, my three to five very costly physical visits to the Emergency Department of WellStar West Georgia Medical Center on June 12, June 13, June 25, August 1, and September 6, 2019, were not in vein (no misspelling pun intended). Notice I was in Pathways Center Second Season and not in the Troup County Jail during the dates of my emergency department treatment. I misbehaved like a potty mouthed adolescent when I was physically in the WellStar West Georgia Medical Center. I was treated with great respect and a very firm hand by the staff of the Emergency Department WellStar West Georgia Medical Center. I would like to give a tremendous shoutout to the following prominent female nursing employee of Pathways Center Second Season, Merry B. I could name a good number of other male and female employees of Pathways Center Second Season and the Troup County Jail, but I will let them reside behind a cloak of anonymity. I have an appointment with Dr. G. Ralston Major II, MD on Thursday, January 30, 2020 for a noninvasive venous reflux vein mapping. I hope to make that appointment, but I must go before state court on Monday, January 27, 2020 for my stupid misbehavior of May 8 or May 10, 2019. I guess I should have known better how to act in public!

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open-Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

Here is a recent email I sent to CNNTips@cnn.com:

Here is the automated reply:

I guess that means that the Cable News Network has also named me a persona non grata.

I was hospitalized on December 31, 1986 through February 6, 1987 at the Bradley Center on 2000 Sixteenth Avenue in Columbus, GA at a cost of $5,642.00 most of which was covered by my dad’s and mom’s insurance. I had enrolled again at LaGrange College in the Fall Quarter of 1986 in four courses: Introduction to Microcomputer Programming I, Numerical Methods, Analysis I, and Introduction to Special Relativity. Sometime in early November 1986 I started having a break from reality and I quit going to classes. I wound up with D, C, F, and F in my courses, respectively.

In December I started fantasizing again that I was somehow affiliated with the CIA and I could communicate telepathically or via a brain implanted device with headquarters in Virginia via my television. Now the brain implant delusion began to dominate my thinking. Here is how the fantasy went. Sometime in the summer of 1983 the CIA clandestinely implanted a subcutaneous transceiver device in my head. I had the coupled delusion that before the implant operation, which incidentally I fantasized had happened at the Comfort Inn on North Avenue just over the I-85 bridge from the Varsity Drive-In Restaurant, that the CIA had used some sort of advanced scanning device to read my thoughts while I was asleep at the Comfort Inn. I assumed they (the CIA operatives) had used something like a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscope to perform the brain scan feat. I did not know about MRI at the time and I don’t think the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner had been invented at that time. Anyway, I had the fantasy that when I went to get a CAT (now CT) scan at West Georgia Medical Center in December 1986 that this scan would somehow deactivate the transceiver in brain. I remember that Susan wanted me to get a CT scan since she erroneously assumed that I was a paranoid schizophrenic. I think that Dr. Kratina, my psychiatrist in December 1986, also incorrectly diagnosed me as a schizophrenic. Anyway, mother and father bought that nonsensical bill of goods hook, line, and sinker. I was a bi-polar individual who could easily be misdiagnosed as schizophrenic since I had a history of heavy cannabis sativa and cannabis indica usage as a late teenager, a teenage alcohol problem, and a history of hallucinogenic drug abuse as a young adult. Back to the CT scan. I had drunk beer before with the MD who did the scan at Foster’s Bar and Grill where I worked in the late 1970s and 1980s. It was reassuring that the CT scanner was guided and recorded by a Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I knew the Data General Eclipse line of computers well and I had been programming the Eclipse at LaGrange College off and on, mostly on, since the summer quarter of 1978. Not soon after the scan I had to affirm the blatant lie that “I was a danger to myself and/or others” in order to get into the Bradley Center.

I was in a private room at the Bradley Center without an occupant in the second bed for a while then I had a roommate. About all I can remember about my experience was my tremendous homesickness, the negative side effects of the terrible anti-psychotic drug Haldol and the almost daily walks to a nearby park for exercise.

Sometime after being released from the hospital in 1987, again due to Susan’s recommendation, I started treatment with a neuropsychiatrist in Opelika, Alabama. I think his name was Dr. Sampson. Anyway, he used to smoke cigars I believe. I can remember being really embarrassed about being brought to the appointments by my father with my mother in tow. I was almost thirty-five years old at the time and not driving and still living at home! Well this went on for several months before I became associated with Pathways in about late 1987 or early 1988. Again, Susan was with dad and I when I was inducted into the Pathways Center Mental Health Clinic of Troup County in LaGrange, Georgia.

I recall with some personal satisfaction my heyday of church secular volunteerism from sometime in 2008 to Monday, March 8, 2010. I had lost my job at Durand-Wayland and I needed some form of activity to keep intellectually engaged. I was trained by Holly Britt https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-britt-45754699/ to run the computer and song lyrics feed for the contemporary worship service named the Morning Glory service. Later Andy Rainey http://www.lagrangefumc.org/welcome/staff/ trained me to use the audio console, but due to lack of practice I never became very adept at sound engineering on First United Methodist Church’s equipment. I do remember that the CD recorder was very delicate and if slightly shaken one could lose a whole service’s recording. In those long forgotten by most of my colleagues I was a “trustee” of the church. I had a smart-card that allowed me virtually all access to the First United Methodist Church of LaGrange, GA. Unfortunately, due to a catastrophic failure to communicate, a couple of concerned church employees had me involuntarily thrown into the Georgia mental Health Gulag Archipelago on Monday, March 8, 2010. First, I was held in captivity at Pathways Center Second Season from Monday, March 8, 2010 until Friday, March 12, 2010. After that I was summarily transferred to Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital in Rome, Georgia, a forensic psychiatric hospital. I languished in that location until Tuesday, April 6, 2010. I was freed from that imprisonment by John Leuken of Pathways Center Mental Health Clinic of Troup County which is near Pathways Second Season in LaGrange, Georgia. After that involuntary imprisonment I was still a “trustee” until I was officially relieved of my smart-card by a female associate pastor in 2010 or early 2011.