Parent's Visit Day Two. Well, I just got back from my second visit.

Mom and Dad arrived around 10:00 AM. They wanted to leave at noon, but they had to wait for a count to clear. They count every day at 11:30 AM. So if (when) you come to visit, you would want to arrive prior to 11:30 AM, say 11:00 AM, to allow for processing.

The count could clear any time between noon and 1:00 PM. They do let people in earlier than 1:00 PM, but you cannot leave until the count is official.

Mom and Dad went to the store last night, and by the time I got back to my cell, my two bags of groceries were waiting for me! I already ate one of the carrots! Yum, yum.

I have mixed a can of chick peas with a purple onion and will either eat some tonight and the rest tomorrow or I might mix some with the mackerel.

The CO's would not let the Toblerone bars in because they were not hermetically sealed, so lucky Dad gets to eat them!

I got two monster grapefruit and six large oranges! It came to nineteen pounds, so I can still get six more pounds this month. Dad also said that he will be ordering the NY Times for me.

It is really snowing pretty hard here now at 3:30 PM. I hope they make it home okay. They have a new all wheel drive vehicle and they will be taking mostly Interstates.

They called a neighbor, and although the neighbor’s lights are not on, Mom and Dad’s were. So they were anxious to get home.

The snow looks really nice but they were saying it is supposed to get into the 50’s too. I do not know. We’ll see what they on the news tonight.

Wow, I mixed some fresh chopped onion, extra sharp cheddar cheese, chick peas, and mustard with the mackerel Mom and Dad brought, and bingo, I am all revved up and ready to go at 8:30 PM.

The food here seems to be even lower in protein than Federal prison or even the County Jail. So now I can also have a nice fresh orange. They also brought me a couple bunches of carrots so I had one of those for a snack today too.

It is looking like I can narrow the shopping list down to five or six items. I may try the tuna with oil they sell here and forgo the mackerel. With the fresh onion (I use the can lid to slice), cheddar cheese, and mustard, the tuna might not be too bad taste-wise.

I might see how the tuna in oil works when mixing, since mustard is basically vinegar based, the oil in tuna would make a sort of salad dressing. I will experiment a bit.

Yeah! One good piece of news; they fixed my time computation. That is a good thing. I was afraid I would have to ask Mom and Dad to track down my paperwork.

So now my earliest release date is November 2009.
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