500 down; 230 days to go.
230 days left in this Hell.
Got into it with Dominque Moody, worthless piece of shit. He walked into the storeroom and walked out with a box of juice despite my telling him he wasn’t allowed in there. I told Jody and she kind-of told him to stay out of there. But the battle had begun.
Bought some Burger King chicken nuggets from a guy in the unit that smuggled them from an outside job and shared with Dan and Zack.
498 down; 232 to go.
Super-ugly morning in Hell’s Kitchen. Aaron was kicked out of the store room and for some reason he was angry and threatening to me. I asked him if he was threatening me and he just shut up. Then Linda pulls me in the chemical closet and asks why/if I was rude to Belinda about her stupid-ass ordering skills. I said that I did not say anything rude to her – nothing any more than the usual funny/sarcastic schtick that I give to everyone freely. She (Linda) said Joe tells everything to Belinda so it could be anything I said in front of him too. That’s ridiculous. Needless to say I have no intention whatsoever of apologizing to that ugly, evil bitch.
Well, some better news after the break. Joe said that Aaron was kicked out because of some fight he had with Linda, not anything about his stealing. Then after lunch I was called to the case worker’s office and CM Boucher had my 4B class change paperwork to sign. He made some nice conversation about how I was previously booked for CCCO and ended up here. He was aware and agreed that CCCO is better (4 to a room, library, cable TV, etc.) I also asked him about the special exception to the personal pass and he nodded at Wingate, who reluctantly said that it had been approved by the warden. He told me to bring back the denied paperwork and he would approve it. Boucher might be a decent human being. I let mom know that I would be able to visit longer.
Bunkie Zachary Wanamaker is being sued for $170k for burning down two buildings in some stupid drunken event. His situation reminds me that I need to follow-up on the bankruptcy while I’m still in prison so I can avoid the fees and class-taking requirements.
Feeling a little better than I have for the last two weeks because the work release paperwork is moving forward and the pass for Sunday, Feb 24 was approved.
496 down; 234 to go.
Finally a day off from Hell’s Kitchen. Finished “How Democracies Die” last night. Great book. I love the possibilities it presented at the end that our democratic-republic might be saved after Dumpster Fire if we return to the practices of mutual toleration (by partisans) and institutional forbearance that served us well from post-Reconstruction to Nixon. Even thought that period of civility was bought at the expense of racial exclusion and single-party authoritarianism in the South.
Finished “The Truth Machine” this morning. Also enjoyed enjoyed that book quite a bit. I would be interested to learn more about the technology aspects of distributed ledger technologies and block-chain systems. Not so much as cash-like currencies, but for things like reputation stores for some of the interesting use cases in the book. Wonder if I would enjoy doing development of that sort?
I’m going to start on “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and “The Federalist Papers” by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay now.
That moronic deviant Wingate denied my second personal pass. It had been an exercise in twisted Nebraska humor that they pretended it was a possibility. I think now that Wingate is the one who has been sabotaging my process. He’s pissed off that he had to displace Burgos on the lower bunk when I got here and that I embarrassed him in front of his inmate-groupies when I corrected him about his dead-wrong story about human chromosomes. He is probably the one who “lost” my work release application all the while telling me “I must be coming up soon” for it. He denied a bunch of my clothing items too (suit, tie, socks, books, bag). He’s going on my Arya’s list (non-physically-violent version). Apparently this was a game of “dumb cop-bad cop” (dumb cop = Donovan). This place is ridiculous. Once again I hope they all burn in Hell.
Someone in Kearney gave birth to twins and then took off. They said no crime was committed because of Nebraska’s safe haven laws. So why are the police looking for her then? They want to find anything to charge her with and harass her to death or try her in Nebraska’s court of public opinion. They definitely do not want to be forced to care for these children, that they allegedly love so much until the moment they’re born.