2/12/2025 Wednesday daily diary from Atwater Camp.
Woke up at 5:00 AM. Made up my bed, cleaned up, changed to BOP uniform and made a cup of coffee. Stretched, drank my coffee and watched the local news and weather report, high temperature for today is 57 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:20 AM. Breakfast menu: Cereal, cake, milk, sugar, apple and water (Cereal, torta, leche, azucar, un manzana y agua).
Plan for today (Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 2/11/2025.
- Walk 6 miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- GED Tutoring 12:00 – 1:30 PM.
- GED Class 1:30 – 2:30 PM.
- ACE Classes Great Depression 5:30-6:00 PM and Abstract Mathematics 6:00-6:30 PM.
The morning started out dark, cloudy, hazy, light breeze and cool – 47 degrees F. The lower atmosphere was cloudy in the Western horizon and it was moving East and South East, slight haze and light breeze, the full moon was setting in the West it was partially covered by the incoming clouds. The autonomous car company had their facility and flood lights turned on and they were testing their vehicles. Rabbits were grazing on the soccer and baseball fields, while Labrona and family were grazing by the fence near the soccer field. Breakfast was served early and no wildlife appeared after breakfast, so the inmates left their food on the ground and on the basketball court. The beautiful dawn sky was on display: reddish orange band of haze, analogous colors peeking over the Sierras: red, orange, yellow, light green, light blue and blue sky with dark gray clouds moving in, and the full moon setting in the West amid the dark clouds. As the morning progressed it was a colorful display of clouds: Gray, mauve, fuchsia, red, orange, peach and white. The birds appeared at 7:00 AM and they feasted on the food left by the inmates and they foraged in the fields. As the sun rise over the Sierras, it illuminated the sky and warmed the air. I walked the trails on the soccer and baseball fields. Completed walking 3 miles and jogged the final 3 miles at 7:40 AM , in 1 hour and 12 minutes. Average walking times were: 12 minutes per mile or 2 minutes per lap. Stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga at the basketball court in the morning sunshine until 8:40 AM. I was able to exercise all phases: strength, flexibility, balance and breathing. The stretch and Yoga practice felt good after the morning walk. Finished my Yoga practice with the corpse pose and visualized the beautiful dawn sky and spectacular sub rise. Opened my eyes to the cloudy sky and more clouds were moving in. The new CO for the morning called for a count at 9:00 AM, after the workers were recalled, they decided to cancel the count. Talked to Doris at 9:05 AM: Doris is well and rested. It was raining and cold in Pinole. GSW is playing the Dallas Maverick tonight. She will change out the Altar for Chinese New Year. I will be busy with the GED tutoring, GED Class and ACE Class today. Checked email from Doris at 9:20 AM: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9156 steps, 17.4 inches step length and symmetry was 7.2%. Yesterday was the 374th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She finished my Release Plan and is waiting for my Book and Class Reports to complete updating my Release Plan. Showered and changed to BOP uniform at 9:30 PM. The power to the camp went off at 9:40 AM. Educational Supervisor CO Rodriquez asked me to get all the inmates who need Pre GED test and he will administer the test for them today. Got 12 inmates to take the Pre GED examination. Lunch was served at 10:30 AM. Luncheon menu: hamburger, salad, potatoes chips, apple and water. I brought calculators and lunches for the inmates who were taking the examination. They replaced our lockers to 5 feet high lockers. I had to transfer all my stuff to the new locker. Went to sewing room: cleaned jackets and fabricated towel blanket for Chris. Today was commissary day but I did not get anything. Pre GED examination was finished at 12:30 PM. They will have to come back for the 2nd part of the examination tomorrow , also GED Examination for Rosa tomorrow at 8:00 AM. The GED class 1:30 – 2:30 PM. The power was finally restored at 2:40 PM. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: fried eggs, biscuit with gravy, fries and water. Went to sewing room: Repaired towel for Scott and repaired jacket for Ruben Torres. ACE Classes Great Depression 5:30-6:00 PM and Abstract Mathematics 6:00-6:30 PM. Census count at 7:00 PM. Census count at 8:00 PM. Cleaned up at 9:00 PM. Final Census count at 9:30 PM. Went to bed at 10:00 PM.
Today was a good day: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9156 steps, 17.4 inches step length and symmetry was 7.2%. Yesterday was the 374th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Walked 6 miles, stretched, split stretched and practiced yoga. Pre GED examination. Good GED Class. Attended ACE Classes. Changed out lockers.
Charles Baudelaire: All that is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Books Read: 53 Books, Book Reports: 52 Reports, Target: 150 Books.
EBRR Classes: 19 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 17 Reports.
ACE Classes: 91 Classes, ACE Class Reports: 83 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 3522 Miles, Target: 4,000 Miles.
Pierre-Augustine Beaumarchais: With love, you see, even too much is not enough.
