Sorry folks nahhh, it has nothing to do with sonny and cher although I was quite partial to the song and hum it (internally) occasionally.
I havent mentioned Unk for some time but i figured today would be as good as any to mention him, hes been ill, he has an over-active thyroid. I know very little about the medicinal world
except to say hes gained weight and his diet has had to be somewhat altered
and now hes a daily pill popper, however poor old unk is a tired man these days, he seems to have lost his active side and sleeps more then maybe he should these days.
hes doing better since hes been to the doc and got medication but he just isnt himself.
I keep tellin him soon enough he'll be pushing me around again and life won't even have appeared to have slowed for the time it did.
I think its gotten much colder in here then it usually is, its weird how crowds and emotions shift, newcomers are brought in and some old ones depart.
Although on a whole old crims leaving with new ones replacing them isn't always a good thing.
Ya get use to your surroundings in here and get all to comfortable with them.
Seeing a new face trying to blend in with other prisoners is like spotting a bright pink frog sitting on a huge green leaf, you aint gonna miss it.
I think newcomers think by just sitting at a table without sayin nothing they blend in because literally we all dress and look somewhat the same to a point. But nahh sorry horaceo you stick out like a great ass on a laker girl, and nothin is gonna change that!
newcomers mean fresh blood in the system, another chance for someone to have power of some kind, its all about power and tiers in here, when ya new your on the bottom tier and you have no power at all, unless of course your comin in for another stint here and are already known on the scene then its kinda like-- welcome home Jack great to see your still stealing cars and choppin them up for a livin.
I figure more then 2/3's of crims that have been in here since i have, have come back,
mostly robbery and drug charges etcetera
its an interesting lifestyle to a point, i mean they have a betting and gambling ring happening everytime someone goes on how many days weeks months it will be before they see him back in here.
Sometimes we screw up and they end up back in the system just not in here.
Today i shook the hand of a fellow prisioner for the last time, Steel (steve) hes out after a ten year stint, and I'm hopin he won't come back, hes almost the epitomy of what prison reform is all about.
hes leaving to try and forge a life for himself in criminal behavioral sciences, hes smart guy and has 2 degrees he earnt whilst sitting in here in jail, ya gotta respect that somewhere down the line.
A drug Dealer at 22 caught for i think 5th or 6th time, ten years in here, now totally reformed, hes never touched drugs just got caught up in the world of selling them to make ends meet. Well now he has new opportunitys and I wish him well. hes one guy I'll be stayin in contact with.
Purely for the motivation of knowing i can do what he did but also to see if this reform and rehab program we are caught up in here actually do work.
Steel may the luck of the irish follow you
and enjoy your freedom.
signed-
Alon
