NY State Commissary Order. Well, commissary has been here. I am trying some different items.

The pickles are listed as "hot pickles" or "dill pickles" but it is only one large pickle in a bag. Club Fed sold them for 60¢; I paid only 37¢. I was hoping it was a plastic jar, so instead I will use my soon-to-be-finished peanut butter jar to hold the pickle. I do not know if they frown on using, or should I say reusing containers, but that was a no-no with the Feds.

Okay, see I also got some real paper! So this should be a little easier for you to read. I purchased twenty 37¢ stamps and a five 23¢ stamps in case I need to send more than seven pages in an envelope! I still have one more week of five free letters, I think.

So, I also bought some candy. I hadn't thought of this before, but since I have the open window and it is cold outside I can freeze the Milky Way bar! I am on the sunny side of the building so I will wait until dark, around 5:00 PM or so, and put out one bar on window ledge and I should have a frozen bar by 10:00 PM maybe.

The V8 and orange juice are five and a half ounce and six ounce containers respectively. Cute size. Forget big gulps, these are one gulp.

Once I get the hotpot, I suppose I could heat the V8 and a can of clams and make Manhattan clam chowder. They do sell a chunky clam chowder at the commissary also.

The "smoothie" candy turns out to be a 3.7 ounce bag of Jolly Ranchers. I was hoping for more of a taffy-type candy. So I will pass these out to my neighbors. I will also share the generic chocolate chip cookies and the Pete Rose Snack Legends "fake" Oreos. I do not want to eat them all. Two Pete Roses’ are 110 calories!

So I did buy with the idea to share. Three or four of the six guys (including me) did not have any money, so while I usually do not sweat it, in this current jail, I will share a little.  ¶ 12:56 PM