Shakedown. It is Monday 5:00 PM here and we just had a shakedown. Kind of impressive. About twenty CO's plus another five or six in full riot gear, motorcycle helmets, body armor, etc.

They took my box. You are allowed to have one cardboard box, but they took mine anyhow. Also, they took my half pint of milk I was saving from lunch. I had a few slices of bread left and that was considered "contraband" so that is gone too.

I wonder if I will leave tonight, but perhaps the snow will have an adverse effect. I cannot see out at all, so I have no idea how much snow is here. Maybe we will see the 6:00 PM news? It does look like there are those little "drifts" in the corners of the windows but that is the most I can see.

I have one pack of mackerel plus the oatmeal cookie pack. So without any bread or milk, I am snack-less tonight. Murphy's Law states that if I eat the cookies tonight, I will get yanked out in the morning; if I save them, I will stay.

But don't shed too many tears, my commissary comes again in the morning and I ordered two Kit Kats to go with the four M&M's. I did have two packs two out of four days, so today was M&M-less. Tough life here in the county jail.

I ate my last mackerel pack mixed with white rice and some kernel corn. I am stuffed now. So I wonder if I will leave tonight? Our Rec time is 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM today, so I will take a shower a little later.

I am back and I did. The following is written Tuesday, 1:30 PM.

I managed to put off eating the oatmeal cookies last night, but when I was awakened for breakfast, I ate them. I did receive a new bag of goodies and now I have a new pack of cookies. I have already finished one Kit Kat and am munching on M&M's as I write this. Oh, I did buy four envelopes this time.

Someone gave me a puzzle book with a variety of types: logic, word find, crossword, and my favorite, the number crossword. I will send two completed puzzles, when I complete them, that is.

One of the inmates here gets regular visitors and always comes back with all the day's newspapers: Newsday, NY Daily News, and the NY Post. So I read them all, showered, and then was trying to watch a half hour of Seinfeld on FOX, but it is so noisy here that I couldn't even hear the dialog.

I got a new book Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid.

I still have no idea if I am traveling tomorrow, but I now have extra envelopes so you will get one with "GONE" on the outside if and when I do go.
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