6/13/2024 Thursday daily diary from Atwater Camp.
Woke up at 5:10 AM. Made up my bed, cleaned up, changed to BOP uniform and made a cup of coffee. Stretched drank my coffee and listened to the radio for the local news and weather report, high temperature for today is 103 degrees F. Started walking at 5:40 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:20 AM. Breakfast menu: Cereal, cake, milk, sugar and water (cereal, torta, leche, ezucar y agua).
Plan for today (Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 6/12/2024.
- Walk 6 miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- ACE classes Entrepreneur 5-5:30 PM and Taxes and Business 6-6:30 PM.
- GED? ESL Tutoring 12:00 – 2:30 PM.
- Warehouse.
The morning started out bright, clear, windy and cool. Th beautiful dawn sky was son display with the analogous colors radiating out from the suns path: red, orange, yellow, light green and light blue sky. Th rabbits were grazing on the baseball field but Labrona and her family were grazing outside the fence. As the sun rise over the Sierras, it brightened the sky, warmed the air and made the sky a darker shade of blue. The squirrels appeared after breakfast and were running around the camp begging for food from the inmates. William Uribe turned on the sprinkler for the soccer field and the birds were having fun showering. The lower atmosphere was hazy from the smog. Walked 5 miles and jogged the final mile with William Uribe. Completed 6 miles walk at 7:30 AM, in 1 hour 10 minutes and 23 seconds. Average walking times were 11 minutes 44 seconds per mile or 1 minute and 54 seconds per lap. The pace was fast as I sweated and had to walk a few laps to get my heart rate down and to catch my breath. Stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga at the basketball court in the morning sunshine until 8:30 AM. The Yoga practice felt good. Cleaned the computer room. Checked email from Doris: Doris is well and rested. She walked 8763 steps, 15.7 inches step length and symmetry was 86%. Yesterday was the 143rd consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Her left eye was improving after the surgery. She will be busy making more merchandise for her gift shows. Counselor informed me, that we will have an inmate coming out of the SHU and assigned him to bunk #61U. We will have two new self surrender inmates joining us tomorrow. Showered and changed to BOP uniform at 9:20 AM. Inmate from the SHU arrived at the camp at 9:40 AM. I processed him. Lunch was served at 10:20 AM. Luncheon menu: baked chicken, pasta, green beans and water. Talked to Doris at 10:45 AM: Doris is well and rested. She talked to DOJ but was not able to talk to Eric Chang. She will call back later. She changed one tire for the Mazda. Kein harvested lots of tomatoes and apricots yesterday. Her eye is getting better, I told her it will take a few weeks for it to get better and heal properly. I told her the televisions are still blacked out and I have to get my weather report from the radio. I told her I had to to the warehouse to secure more merchandise for the sewing room. Went to sewing room: exchanged belt for Jesus and Rojo. Administered pre GED test for Montiero. Went to warehouse with Happy. John Liu delivered the merchandise, brought more pants for hemming and picked up hemmed pants. Put away the merchandise in the sewing room, sized pants for hemming, repaired uniforms. GED/ ESL Tutoring 12:00 – 2:30 PM. Graded Pre GED examination and administered a second Pre GED for Montiero. Montiero did well on both examinations. He should be ready for the GED examination scheduled for early July. Went to sewing room to repair some uniforms for the penitentiary. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: shredded chicken, rice, mixed vegetables and water. ACE Classes Entrepreneur 5-5:30 PM and Taxes and Business 6-6:30 PM. Census count at 7:30 PM. Census count at 8:30 PM. Cleaned up at 9:00 PM. Final Census count at 9:30 PM. Went to bed at 10:00 PM.
Today was a hectic but good day: Doris is well and rested. She walked 8763 steps, 15.7 inches step length and symmetry was 86%. Yesterday was the h143rd consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Still not able to talk directly with Eric Chang. Walked 6 miles, split stretched and practiced Yoga. Attended ACE Classes, administered pre GED examinations.
Socrates: Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.
Books Read: 33 Books, Book Reports: 33 Reports, Target: 150 Books.
EBRR Classes: 15 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 13 Reports.
ACE Classes: 69 Classes, ACE Class Reports: 62 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 2114 Miles, Target: 9000 Miles.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The thoughts of a prisoner – they’re not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
