3/29/2025 Friday 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 65 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:30 AM. Breakfast menu: Oatmeal, cake, milk, sugar, pear and water (Harina de avena, torta, leche, azucar, un pera y agua).
Plan for today ( Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 3/27/2025.
- Walk 6 Miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- EBRR Class Anger Management 7:30-8:30 AM.
- GED Tutoring 12:00-1:30 PM.
- GED Class 1:30-2:30 PM.
The morning started out dark, hazy, light fog, cloudy, light breeze and cool 52 degrees F. The lower atmosphere was hazy, cloudy in the Eastern horizon with some clearing and sparse clouds in the mid sky, light fog with visibility of over 5 miles and light breeze made the temperature cooler. 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. The beautiful dawn sky was on display; band of red haze amid the cloud clearing; dark blue clouds over the Sierras followed by layers of cream, light green, light blue and blue sky and scalloped clouds in mid sky. No wildlife appeared after breakfast, so the inmates left their food on the ground and on the basketball court. I walked the trails on the soccer and baseball fields. As the sun rise over the Sierras the sun rays radiated through the cloud clearings and turned the clouds on it path to peach color with golden edges, it illuminated the sky and it dodged in and out of the clouds until it cleared it. The birds appeared around 7:10 AM, they feasted on food left by the inmates and foraged in the fields. Completed walking three miles and jogged the final three miles at 7:25 AM, in 1 hour 14 minutes and 18 seconds. Average walking times were: 12 minutes and 23 seconds per mile or 2 minutes and 4 seconds per lap. Attended the EBRR Class Anger Management 7:30-8:30 AM. CO Cota issued my completion certificates for Trauma Part 2 and Basic Cognition Skills. She also assigned lots of homework for us. Stretched and split stretched until 9:00 AM. The stretch felt good after the morning walk. Talked to Doris at 9:00 AM: Doris is well and rested. The weather was nice in Pinole. She will celebrate Oralia’s birthday luncheon with Diana at the China Kitchen, unfortunately Marina will not be joining them as she is in Hawaii. The GSW will play the New Orleans Pelicans tonight. She will finish her Bouquet embroidery today. I will be busy with GED tutoring and GED class and ACE Class Reports. Showered and changed to BOP uniform at 9:20 AM. Checked email from Doris at 9:50 AM: Doris is well and rested. She walked 9506 steps, 17.5 inches step length and symmetry was 8.5%. yesterday was the 407th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She and Diana and Oralia will celebrate Oralia’s birthday in China Kitchen. Lunch was served at 10:15 AM. Luncheon menu: fish sandwich, rice, mixed vegetables, pear and water. They assigned some people to replace some of the Dublin Orderlies. I met with Mr. Larsen about my half way house departure. He informed me that they might send me to home confinement after a short stay. Also I could expedite it if we could get letters from Doris’s doctors that she needed me to take her to her doctor’s appointments, i.e. Dr Yang, Dr jasmine Lee, Dr Lee and her eye doctor in Walnut Creek. He also requested a Oakland half way house handbook for me. Had a short nap. GED tutoring 12:00-1:30 PM. GED Class 1:30-2:30 PM. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: cheesy chicken, carrots, pasta, buns and water. Worked on my ACE Class Reports and EBRR assignments. 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 9506 steps, 17.5 inches step length and symmetry was 8.5%. Yesterday was the 407th consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. They celebrated Oralia’s 85th birthday. Walked 6 miles, stretched and split stretched. Good GED tutoring and GED Class. Attended EBRR Class.
William Blake: Vision or imagination is a representation of what eternally exists, really and unchangeably.
Books Read: 56 Books, Book Reports: 56 Reports, Target: 100 Books.
EBRR Classes: 20 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 19 Reports.
ACE Classes: 91 Classes, ACE Class Reports: 88 Reports, Target EBRR and ACE Classes: 100 Classes.
Miles walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 3,786 Miles, Target: 4,000 Miles.
Eaavan Boland: I think of what great art removes: hazard and death, the future and the past.
