Printer Guy. It is now 1:30 PM Sunday and I am in my little office up in the Education department. Here is a rewrite of a letter I drafted to you at 4:01 AM a couple of weeks ago. OK, so I am a little behind in the rewrite and edit department. Actually it got placed with a bunch of other papers and I was doing a little cleaning out of my "current stuff" pile. Herein is the text of the letter:

I’m sitting here listening to Jazz After Hours on NPR. It is a six-hour jazz show on each Saturday and Sunday from midnight until 6:00 AM. It is based out of Seattle and is good because not only do they cover all kinds of jazz, but the DJ explains who is playing on each track and even the discography information.

I went to sleep at 8:30 PM so I awoke around 2:00 AM and have been sitting here doing some dreaming.

I'm not sure if I gave you a job update. After leaving the chapel and "slumming" for a while emptying the garbage cans, a tough 15 minutes five days a week, I am now the "Printer Guy". We have a 120-page-per-minute Ricoh mimeo-type printer. It has a built in scanner. You place your original on the glass and 20 seconds later the stencil is cut and your first proof is printed. The unit comes with extra drums that slide in and out for doing color work. You still need to run the paper through the printer one color at a time and I am not sure how close the registration is, but it should be able to do some basic line-type drawing and color mixing.

I am actually combining an assignment for my English writing class; an essay entitled "Are You Using Technology or is Technology Using You", with a way to save the good old USA a ton of money. We have eight or nine major-sized digital copiers within our little humble compound here at Club Fed, and it is my point that using these copiers to mass-produce standard forms and to copy various requests to staff forms instead of using a two-part carbonless form, one copy for file, one copy returned to the inmate, is costing major league tax dollars. Like yours for instance.

If I am successful in my drive to lower the cost of running a federal prison, maybe you will get an even bigger rebate from good old boy George W. (If you believe that you are not as sharp as I thought you were.)
  ¶ 12:10 AM