2/2/2025 Sunday 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 66 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:40 AM. Breakfast menu: Grits, cake, milk, sugar, apple and water (Semola de maiz, torta, leche, azucar, un manzana y agua).
Plan for today (Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 2/1/2025.
- Walk 6 miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- Book and Class Reports.
The morning started out dark, breezy, overcast and cool – 46 degrees F. it rained all night but stopped around 3:00 AM. The lower atmosphere was overcast except for clearing in the Southeastern and Western horizon, temperature was cool because of the cloud cover. The autonomous car company had their facility and flood lights turned on and they were maintaining their equipment. The rabbits were grazing on the soccer and baseball fields, while Labrona and family were grazing by the fence near the soccer field. The rabbits were skittish today as there are 4 large predator dogs roaming the fields. The beautiful dawn sky was on display: fiery striated red haze over the Sierras, analogous colors peeking over the Sierras: red, orange, yellow, seafoam green and the dark clouds. After breakfast no wildlife appeared, so the inmates left their food on the ground and on the basketball court. Despite the rain last night, the walking trails were damp but walkable. As the sun rise over the Sierras, The big Orange reddish sphere rise over the Sierras it changed colors as it ascended through the haze: orange reddish, orange, yellow and bright yellow. As it ascended further, it disappeared into the thick clouds. The breeze blew the clouds around creating areas of clear blue sky. The birds appeared around 7:10 AM an they feasted on food left by the inmates and foraged in the fields. Completed walking 4 miles and jogged the final two miles at 7:40 AM, in 1 hour 12 minutes and 46 seconds. Average walking times were: 12 minutes and 3 seconds per mile or 2 minutes and 2 seconds per lap. Stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga at the basketball court until 9:00 AM. The stretch and Yoga practice felt good after the morning walk. I was able to exercise all phases: strength, flexibility, balance, and breathing. The four predators dogs appeared around 8:20 AM and they were chasing after several rabbits, the rabbits were running for their lives and they took refuge inside the fence. Finished my Yoga practice with the corpse pose and visualized the beautiful dawn sky and stunning sun rise. Opened my eyes to the cloudy sky with patches of clear blue sky. Talked to Doris at 9:05 AM: Doris is well and rested. It was raining in Pinole. They had an emergency alert to stay indoors last night because of a fire at the Chevron refinery in Martinez. She will stay indoor to avoid the smoke and rain. She liked my ACE Class Report on Repairing and Building credit, as it applies to her. The GSW will play the Orlando Magic tomorrow. I will email the updated Release Plan for the Half Way House today. the Tabulation for Book Reports and Class Reports will follow tonight. I will be busy updating my Release Plan, Tabulation of the Book and Class Reports. Cleaned the computer room. Checked email from Doris at 9:20 AM: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9076 steps, 16.4 inches step length and symmetry was 7.6%. Yesterday was the 364th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She will stay indoors today. Lunch was served at 9:30 AM. Luncheon menu: fried eggs, pancake with syrup, fries, apple and water. Census count at 10:00 AM. Shant Ohanian reminded everyone to clean up after using the microwave oven and other exercise equipment, otherwise Echesveste will take it away form us. Showered and changed to casual clothes at 10:20 AM. Had a short nap. Went to library to update my Release Plan. Helped Osuna with some GED Math problems. They were not too many people at visitations, maybe 5-6 cars only. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: Chicken parmigiana, spaghetti with Alfredo sauce, green peas, bread and water. Submitted my updated Release Plan, Tabulation for Book Report and Class Report to Doris. 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 9036 steps, 16.4 inches step length and symmetry was 7.6%. Yesterday was the 364th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Walked 6 miles, stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga. Submitted my updated Release Plan, Tabulation of Book and Class Reports to Doris.
Francis Bacon: Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Books Read: 50 Books, Book Reports: 50 Reports, Target: 150 Books.
EBRR Classes: 19 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 17 Reports.
ACE Classes: 91 Classes, ACE Class Reports: 82 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 3462 Miles, Target: 4000 Miles.
Francis Bacon: For also knowledge is power.
