11/11/2024 Monday 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 64 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:40 AM. Breakfast menu: Oatmeal, cake, milk, sugar, apple and water (Harina de avena, torta, leche, ezucar, un manzana y agua).
Plan for today (Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 11/10/2024.
- Walk 6 miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- GED/ Statistics Tutoring 12:00 – 3:30 PM.
- ACE classes Geography and Travel – Malaysia, Indonesia 5-5:30 PM and Culinary Art 1, Professional Chef 6-6:30 PM.
The morning started out dark, breezy, hazy, sparse clouds and cold – 44 degrees F. The lower atmosphere was hazy with plumes of dark smoke on the Eastern, Southern and Western horizons, and clouds were moving in from the Northwest towards the Southeast. The autonomous car company was testing their cars intermittently. 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 with reddish band of haze, golden and peach colored cirrus clouds and analogous colors radiated out of the suns path: red, orange, yellow, light green, light blue and dark blue sky with Gray clouds. The birds appeared after breakfast and they were feasting on food left on the ground by the inmates. As the morning progressed, the clouds started rolling in from the Northwest and it looked like a wave of peach golden waves. As the sun rise, the red sphere changed color as it passed through different layers of haze, from red, orange, yellow to brilliant yellow colors, The sun warmed up the air. Finished walking 6 miles at 7:40 AM, in 1 hour 13 minutes and 12 seconds. Average walking times were: 12 minutes and 12 seconds per mile or 2 minutes and 2 seconds per lap. The sun was slowly shielded by the clouds and more thick clouds started rolling in. It was supposed to rain at noon today. Stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga at the basketball court until 8:40 AM. The stretch and Yoga practice felt good after the cold morning walk. I was able to exercise all phases: strength, flexibility, balance and breathing. Finished my Yoga practice with the corpse pose and visualized our trip back on I-80 after Chicago. We stopped by the world’s largest truck stop in Des Moines, Iowa. It was a very big and had hundreds of gas pumps for gasoline, restaurants, showers, gift shops, shopping, game arcade. We had lunch and coffee and wandered around the facility and was in awe of its size and took a lot of pictures. Lots of tourists were there to visit the truck stop. Opened my eyes to the cloudy sky. I hope it rain all over the Central Valley to help put out the Central Valley and Mountain fires. Talked to Doris at 9:05 AM: Doris is well and rested. It was raining and cold in Pinole. The dogs were keeping warm under the blankets in the patio and their dog house. Christina’s friend will help Doris bring the car for Smog and hope to get the registration tags in Safeway. She is not doing the Pinole Senior Center show this Saturday, she has been doing it for over 20 years. She enjoyed the GSW/Thunders game last night and will watch the replay today. I told her I will be busy with GED / Statistics tutoring, ACE Classes and reading my Statistics manual. She will stay home to work on design for her Etsy page. Lunch was served at 9:30 AM, Luncheon menu: Baked chicken, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, bread, banana and water. Census count at 10:00 AM. Checked email from Doris at 10:10 AM: Doris is well and rested, She walked 8775 steps, 16.9 inches step length and symmetry was 6.8%. Yesterday was the 281st consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She won’t be doing the Pinole Senior Center gift show as she will be visiting me. She enjoyed the GSW win over the Thunders and will watch the replay. She will stay home and walk indoors as it was raining and cold. Showered and changed to casual clothes at 10:30 AM. Had a short nap. It started raining at 12:00 PM. pretty heavy rain which is what we needed especially to put out the fires. Veteran’s day so the students decided to take the day off from GED/Statistics tutoring. The rain stopped at 3:00 PM and the sun came out. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: Chicken breast sandwich, potatoes salad, green beans, salad and water. ACE Classes Geography and Travel – Malaysia and Indonesia 5-5:30 PM and Culinary Art 1, Professional Chef 6-6:30 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 8775 steps, 16.9 inches step length and symmetry was 6.8%. Yesterday was the 281st consecutive days she closed the ring on iPhone. Walked 6 miles, stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga. Attended ACE Classes.
Edward Young: To know the world, not love her, is thy point, she gives but little, nor little, long.
Books Read: 44 Books, Book Reports: 44 Reports, Target: 150 Books.
EBRR Classes: 18 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 17 Reports.
ACE Classes: 83 Reports, ACE Class Reports: 81 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 2966 Miles, Target: 9000 Miles.
George W. Young: The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine.
