August 27, 2023

The baked bean in the pillow over strategy has helped me out now two nights in a row. I managed to fall asleep before the 9:30pm standing count and did not wake up for it. So far, no disciplinary ticket. Pillow-muffs help suppress the noise but my back still had me awake by 2:00am. Any help I can get is... oh! If I can have a TV or electric razor, then I wonder if I can get a heating pad. That would be a huge windfall for me. Whatever my back is doing is much relieved by prolonged heat. Time to bother medical again. The bed sheets we get are not as long as the mattress pads so I put a t-shirt over the end of the mattress pad and tie the sleeves to the corners of the sheet to hold it in place. Apparently sheets long enough to actually cover the mattress pad exceed the allowable sheet length limit. Baby Zach was doing tummy time to try to suffer my back pitching fits and was laying here looking at how ridiculous undersized bedding is.

On a positive note, though, dinner was fun. Just peanut butter and jelly. Last night it was a ham sandwich but the ham smelled spoiled and I couldn't eat it. Tonight, though, since peanut butter isn't really enough protein for a grown man, I caked some cookies & cream protein powder on my sandwich. Peanut butter, jelly, cookies & cream? Yes. If I could have added putter and toasted it then I would have. I will be making my children that version when I go home. So good! I also just finished re-reading the latest newsletter. There are so many great things about it. I can't believe we have a crossword with twenty members names all packed together. "We can and will let's make it happen best team ever!" They really are.