Go ahead, let the imagination ruin the reality...

Well, the motorcycle ride to Purdy was good, and the one home last night was better since it didn't have that misty rain and slick streets. I did get a bit of a smile when I tried to call attention to the fact that my motorcycle only had two wheels and I shouldn't pay four dollars like the big gas guzzling automobiles. Yes, equality until the law works, I paid four dollars - I have the same number of axles and the Governor doesn't love me, sigh.

So for all of you that haven't been to a Women's Correction Center - what you will find there is no prisoners. Well, none that I recognized, I was still looking around for men in khaki. There were lots of women in sweats but no men in khaki. There are lots of flowers, the gardens grow all over, flow all over and they make money on Horticulture. They also train working dogs, and we had a couple in the library for a bit. A blind woman and her dog came for a meeting while I was waiting at the entrance, the dog was on constant alert, the woman calm and sure, a very nice team.

The IT folks came and fixed the printer for my use while on the DOC1 computers, if I had been on the other one I would have been okay from the start. The library is smaller than mine, although the claim is only a few thousand items less in the total collection - there is much more room on the shelves. Four women in the crew, and they work together and quickly - and as bad as I am with names I have all of them today still, so there is hope I will improve some of my failings. I did get to check departing inmates out and clear them from the library computers. Four didn't have all their material turned in, two returned and cleared after finding it. Nice system. I even put in the ILL requests for the week, laughing a the small number of requests, my normal day is like his normal week.

I got a tour of the total facility, seventy-five acres of it, about 950 inmates, and J unit has the mothers with babes to eighteen months, another thing that isn't right in the world of Earl. There were three periods of library open and twenty patrons is the maximum so only sixty could have used it yesterday, one period was about four or five, the other two fairly full. Doug introduced me to a few people so they would be aware I would be back. The important one was the officer that manned the desk that watches the hallway and the library - if she is gone I get to send all the women out of the library and lock the door. Don't get caught in the library alone with any number of women inmates. That is supposed to be the safety advice from my Program Manager, works for me. My wife's rule is don't get caught with one woman, that has been in effect for many many years, that has always worked best.

Overall, I think I won't have any trouble covering for Doug during the time he is on vacation, the goal is going to be to get the doors open, move the mail and distribution and don't make a mess (at least not one that Doug can't clean up when he returns).