Air quality. Despite what one of the other inmates said, we did not get to the law library yesterday. Apparently they have upgraded the single computer to a network of six computers with Federal and fifty states law. All fifty states! What I need desperately to do is see if there are any new NY state cases dealing with my "double punishment" issue.

I am sitting on pins and needles. It had sort of escaped my mind that one of the benefits of coming back to NY would be the computer/database access to case law. Now to find it is a six-PC based system and probably all on hard drives as opposed to last time when I had to swap CD's around.

So I am sitting around waiting for the call. We usually get just one hour a week, and since we did not go yesterday, I hope we will not have to wait till next Sunday.

The sweetest thing now would be to find some new case law that has a positive outcome and be able to send it to the court before they have issued their opinion. Tick tock, tick tock. Well let me read for a bit more.

It is now 9:00 PM here, and I am getting a full-blown cold, my nose is running, etc. Lovely. The air in here sucks. I have two vents on the back wall of my cell but the "hold-up-toilet-paper" test fails to show any air movement in or out. So if you live in a box with three solid sides, what type of air exchange do you get?

Further, the hot air heat that blows in the outer walkway is only turned on by the CO when he gets cold. So there is no active air movement here. Let's see: over forty males using toilets, etc., no active air exchange, room temperature above 80° and Bingo! Guess who gets sick! Not to mention that lying down tends to produce a coughing fit from post-nasal drip.

BTW I found out that I can receive books by mail, so go ahead and send five more books please. I am going to need some TLC-type reading if my cold worsens. Hmmm...perhaps that could be another post.

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