11/21/2024 Thursday 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 67 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served at 6:30 AM. Breakfast menu: cereal, cake, milk, sugar, apple and water (Cereal, torta, leche, ezucar, un manzana y agua).
Plan for Today (Plano para hoy):
- Stretch.
- Call Doris.
- Check email from Doris.
- Email daily diary for 11/20/2024.
- Walk 6 Miles.
- Split Stretch.
- Yoga.
- Quotations.
- GED/Statistics Tutoring 12:00 – 1:45 PM.
- Statistics Class 1:45 – 3:00 PM.
The morning started out dark, breezy,hazy, cloudy and cool – 48 degrees F. The lower atmosphere was slightly hazy, cloudy, wind was gusting around 10 mph and the 1/2 moon was in mid sky. The autonomous car company was maintaining their equipment an not testing their vehicle. 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 orange reddish haze over the Sierras, analogous colors peeking over the Sierras, clouds near the suns path were peach golden colors, 1/2 moon was in mid sky amid the clouds and dark blue sky. The birds appeared after breakfast and were feasting on the cakes left by the inmates on the ground. As the morning progressed, it was a beautiful display of clouds: clouds in the suns path looked like charcoal ambers, far away clouds were peach and gold colors and underside of the stratus clouds were reddish orange color. As the sun rise over the Sierras, it illuminated the sky and a colorful display of clouds and warmed the air. They fixed the sprinklers systems on the soccer field and backfilled the holes. Finished walking 6 miles at 7:30 AM, in 1 hour 13 minutes and 32 seconds. Average walking times were: 12 minutes and 16 seconds per mile or 2 minutes and 3 seconds per lap. Stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga at the basketball court in the morning sunshine until 8:50 AM. The stretch and Yoga practice felt good after the morning walk. I was able to exercise all phases: strength, flexibility, balance and breathing. Finished my Yoga practice with the corpse pose and visualized the beautiful dawn sky, spectacular display of colorful clouds, the 1/2 moon in mid sky and the stunning sunrise. Opened my eyes to the cloudy blue sky with the 1/2 moon in mid sky. Nick left for the Oakland half way house this morning. The inmate that walked out of camp last October was apprehended yesterday in San Diego. Cleaned the computer room. Talked to Doris at 9:00 AM: Doris is well and rested. It was raining heavily in Pinole, even the dogs did not want to come out of the dog house. She will stay indoors to walk and keep warm and dry. She enjoyed the GSW/Hawks game last night. Since the garbage cans are half full, she won’t put them out for collection today. Diana is still under the weather, thus will not come over today. I told her that Jose Aguilar Moreno was the escapee from camp last October was was apprehended yesterday in San Diego. Showered and changed to BOP uniform at 9:30 AM. Checked email from Doris at 10:00 AM: Doris is well and rested. She walked 8746 steps, 15.3 inches step length and 8.4% symmetry. Yesterday was the 291st consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. She enjoyed the victory by GSW over the Atlanta Hawks and the next game is on Friday with the Pelicans. The Atwater BOP website indicated that Visitations were cancelled, it was only for the USP, but camp visitation was still on. Lunch was served at 10:20 AM. Luncheon menu: baked chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, bread, apple and water. Had a short nap. GED/Statistics tutoring 12:00 – 3:30 PM. Statistics class was cancelled for today because of the lockdown in the USP. They announced on the Public Address system that camp visitation is on. A contractor was installing cables for Wi-Fi in the visitation to enable facetime communication on the tablets for a fee. It was supposed to be operational in January 2025. Census count at 3:30 PM. Dinner was served after the count. Dinner menu: Chicken fajitas, beans, corn, rice and water. 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 8746 steps, 15.3 inches step length and symmetry was 8.4%. Yesterday was the 291st consecutive days she closed the ring on her iPhone. Camp visitation is on, despite the lockdown in the USP. Walked 6 miles, stretched, split stretched and practiced Yoga. Good tutoring sessions.
Henry Brook Adams: A teacher affects eternity: He can never tell where his influence stop.
Books Read: 45 Books, Book Reports: 44 Reports, Target: 150 Books.
EBRR Classes: 19 Classes, EBRR Class Reports: 17 Reports.
ACE Classes: 83 Classes, ACE Class Reports: 81 Reports, Target: 100 Classes.
Miles Walked Today: 6 Miles, Cumulative Mileage: 3026 Miles, Target: 9000 Miles.
John Adams: There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
