Journal Entry: Choon Yong-02/04/2025-Inmate to SHU, exceeded points

Journal Entry

2/4/2025 Tuesday daily diary form 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 58 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:40 AM. Breakfast menu: cereal, cake, milk, sugar, banana and water ( cereal, torta, leche, azucar, un platano y agua).

Plan for today (Plan para hoy):

  1. Stretch.
  2. Call Doris.
  3. Check email from Doris.
  4. Email daily dairy for 2/3/2025.
  5. Walk 6 Miles.
  6. Split Stretch.
  7. Yoga.
  8. Quotations.
  9. GED tutoring 12:00 – 3:00 PM.
  10. ACE Classes Spanish 5:30-6:00 PM and Geography and Travel, China 6:00 – 6:30 PM.


The morning started out dark, cloudy, breezy and cool – 51 degrees F. The lower atmosphere was overcast except for a small clearing in the Southeast, Southern and Southwest horizon, the wind was gusting at about 10-15 miles per hour. the autonomous car company had their facility and flood lights turned on and they were testing their vehicles. The rabbits were grazing on the soccer and baseball fields, while Labrona and family were grazing by the fence near the basketball court. The beautiful dawn sky was on display: cream colored band of haze, analogous colors over the Sierras with a large band of seafoam green sky and the dark gray clouds. After breakfast, no wildlife appeared, so the inmates left their food on the ground and on the basketball court. As the morning progressed, a light drizzle developed, it was a colorful display of clouds that looked like cotton puff with read, peach, cream an varying shades of gray colors; a semi rainbow developed as the sun rise, the cloud clearing turned to cream color and on top of it was a band of seafoam green colored sky. The sun rise was brief but the cream and seafoam green colored sky persisted. The birds appeared at 7:10 AM and they feasted on food left by the inmates and foraged on the fields. There were very light drizzle through out the morning. I walked the trails on the soccer and baseball fields. Completed walking 6 miles at 7:50 AM, in 1 hour 15 minutes and 12 seconds. Average walking times were: 12 minutes and 32 seconds per mile or 2 minutes and 6 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 breezy morning walk. I was able to exercise all phases: strength, flexibility, balance and breathing. I had to work extra hard to keep my posture and balance with the strong breeze. Finished my Yoga practice with the corpse pose and visualized the beautiful dawn sky and colorful sun rise. Opened my eyes to the cloud sky. Cleaned the computer room. Checked email from Doris: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9576 steps, 15.6 inches step length and symmetry was 7.9%. Yesterday was the 366th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She was glad the GSW won their game against the Orlando Magic. The weather was wet and windy in Pinole. She might postpone her eye appointment because of the inclement weather. Showered and changed to BOP uniform at 9:30 AM. Lunch was served at 10:20 AM. Luncheon menu: chicken breast sandwich, salad, kale, rice, cake and water. Talked to Doris at 10:40 AM: Doris is well and she was at home. She rescheduled her eye appointment until next Tuesday. GSW beat the Orlando Magic, both Curry and Green played well. Their next game is tomorrow against the Utah Jazz. I will be busy with GED tutoring and ACE Classes tonight. Went to sewing room: exchanged 2 39X30 pants for Michael. GED Tutoring 12:00 – 3:00 PM. They had a commissary for a few inmates to reduce the line for tomorrow. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: Broccoli beef, rice, green, beans, bread and water. ACE Classes Spanish 5:30-6:00 PM and Geography and Travel, China 6-6:30 PM. Found out they sent an inmate Summerhays to the SHU for using other inmates phone minutes and also refusal to pay his restitution. His points after his shot exceeded the point required for camp. 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 AM.

Today was a good day: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9576 Steps, 15.6 inches step length and symmetry was 7.9%. Yesterday was the 366th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Walked 6 miles, stretched. split stretched and practiced Yoga. Good GED tutoring sessions. Attended ACE Classes.

Honore De Balzac: Man is neither good or bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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: 17 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 3474 Miles, Target: 4000 Miles.

Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine habit forming? of course not. I ought to know. I ‘ve been using it for years.