False alarm. I will only mail this letter if I ship out in the morning.

I pigged out on two Kit Kats and two M&M's plus the usual 6:00 AM two-pack of oatmeal cookies. I have done no walking for the past three days, so I really socked it to the old healthy eating thing today. This also means my sugar content in the old bod must be a little on the high side. Duh, you think?

The cool thing about this time of day is the amazing quiet. The TV's are off, there is some scattered cell-to-cell chatter on the opposite side, but it is very quiet now.

They have a dimmer for the lights (I never realized you could dim fluorescents till I came here) and tonight so far the CO has left the light level higher than usual. It is actually fairly bright, so I can see clearly for a bit. Usually it is darker, light enough that I can just barely read, but not light enough to write or work on the puzzles.

So for now I will try to finish a couple of the puzzles, and then rip out the finished pages and have them ready to go if I get moved in seven hours. Off to puzzle land I go.

I am still working. My brain is really clicking. They just dimmed the lights some more but it is still lighter than it was last night.

It amazes me how sometimes my brain just looks at these puzzles and sees nothing, but then like now it seems to be really moving along. If I could bottle it, whatever "it" is, I could really be a wealthy man.

OK, my brain has lost what it had. I got screwed up on the second puzzle. I should probably use pencil for these. I dropped down to the second puzzle and just ran out of gas. If tonight or I should say, if this morning is the time they move me, you will get both puzzles, or else I will draw them out and try tomorrow.

For now it is reading time till I doze off.

TTFN, sometime after midnight.

P.S. OK, this was only a test. It is now Wednesday noon and I am still stuck in the county jail. So let me try to work on the puzzles some more.
  ¶ 8:39 PM