Sundry Items

This one was fun as a game for a guy named Bruce, who played spades with "school" as a partner. Apparently from a wealthy family, he never did disclose to me where he had not been able to get out, as most guys with money could.

In any case, he laughed at my antics the most, and his amusement became a motivating factor for me to continue jests. I once made him laugh at me while I had begun to buy and use washcloths for cloth napkins, as napkins were something I was sorely missing from being outside. Especially with the slop that was served, and with most things being soupy in consistency, a napkin was important to me, and I was tired of using my hands to wipe my mouth, and washing up only after a meal. My crutches would get full of grease and water while I crutched from the table to the cell's sink. So I ordered washcloths at 50 cents a piece to use as napkins. Never saw it or never had it imitated. Bruce sure was impressed so much he called attention to me from the whole of the dayroom. It may have been a bit much for me to tuck the "napkin" in my shirt collar, but well worth the laugh. Just hearing it made me smile.

The sketch here above was fun for him to guess at each of the items. He enjoyed the excercise, and I did enjoy having the likenessess acknowledged. He shook his head in amusement and walked away. My best critic, thoug none were too harsh, and some were downright polite. The worst was Julio who told me I didn't know a thing about shading, but his criticisms are obviously accurate. I don't pretend to know what I am doing in this medium, I just happened to pick a subject not otherwise done by the guys around me, and in a way not usually approached.

The images of Cartoon Characters, Girls, Flowers, etc are all entertained by in large. The religious image is handled extensively, and the animals to a lesser degree. The subjects I chose were those in my surroundings, and unfortunately for the purpose here, the best of them went for sale, for gifts to friends I made in there to send out (especially if a portrait) or sent to my own family as a thanks for the gesture they would offer me.

So what I have is here, adn will continue to be posted. The items here include all sorts of things that are common for jail, but unusual to the first time inmate. The bunk starts off the image which includes also the cell door, the visiting booth, the outside rec yard, the turtles, the writing tools (maybe not so unusual unless your addicted to the computer's wordprocessor and come to value the expense of paper and pen in the system), the playing cards and chess sets that dominate the dayroom activites, the shoes and clothes everyone inside wears except for teh staff, and the telephone which is the only other extension of the outside world other than the others mentioned.

The "world" is what it's referred to inside. Sharply dichotomized from the place where I was.