Lunch in the County Jail in New York State. Although I only had two meals yesterday while in transit, I have now had two meals.

I thought I would start this new part of my journey on an upbeat perspective. How can I do that you ask? Well, let us just say that I have lowered any and all expectations, and as long as I can keep that perspective, anything I receive will be a plus.

Those of you faithful blog readers are probably saying I bet this will last all of two minutes! Well, time will tell.

Since I have a lot more time now, I will be hopefully doing a lot of writing. I have pledged to my Editor that I will try to slow down and improve the readability factor.

So far the food here has been wonderful. Breakfast here consists of coffee, peanut butter and jelly, prepackaged single serve boxes of dry cereal, a half-pint of 1% milk, and juice. It is served between 5:30 AM and 6:00 AM daily. If you are not awake, you will not get your half cup of juice. This is real juice straight from the box.

When breakfast came today at around 6:00 AM, I had not had anything to eat or drink since my special pizza lunch at Dulles Airport. First they brought coffee, which I have never developed a taste for.

Two boxes of Frosted Mini-wheat's arrived next, and I ripped open the first one and didn't even wait for milk! Then came the juice, which is delivered to the tiers in two or three half-gallon containers. The tier rep, a fellow inmate, pours it. Today I had apple juice for the first time in years! Oh we occasionally had juice at Club Fed, but the taste of this properly reconstituted chilled apple juice was such a "new" taste sensation.

I got a whole loaf of wheat bread to hold since they sort of give out enough so that each inmate can have his own loaf. So breakfast ended up being Frosted Mini-wheat's, two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and one pint of 1% milk. Yum Yum. Cheap peanut butter can taste good when one is hungry, and we get healthier wheat bread to boot.

Oh wait, I was going to talk about lunch. Lunch was a generous scoop of tuna salad with two more pieces of bread, a quarter-wedge of tomato, and some lettuce. Hey, we never got that big a tomato slice at Club Fed! And another pint of 1% milk! Not bad.

I get to sit in my cell all day. "Room service" delivers meals, and even the commissary is delivered. So the two major things that I waited in line for at Club Fed, food and commissary, are now delivered to my cell.

Yeah, for now my mackerel and rice brain-food diet is still on hold, and we will leave it to you all, the readers of this blog, to see if you can tell the difference. Well that is it for now.
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