September 19, 2024

The guards wake most of us up at 2:00am by yelling and banging on a door of someone sleeping the sensible way around on the bed. Then their keys rattle continuously for 14 minutes which I later learn was for the supervisor doing inventory. A process that does not require keys to be out of their pocket. You may think it is not a big deal but it is basically like taking a pillow case containing a drawers worth of silverware and bouncing it on your thigh. It is highly disruptive to your ability to sleep. I end up complaining at 2:43am since the crashing keys are still occurring. The sleep disruption is intentional. It could not not be. At 8:15am, I am driven to the hospital in La Crosse for trigger point injections in my back. Within two hours of being poked with medication six times along my spine, the feeling of being constantly elbowed in my back goes away. I feel as though I have had a golf ball or baseball removed from my spine. Although I fall asleep right after 9:30pm standing count, I am awoken at 1:30am September 20, 2024 by two inmates having "date night." One is excited about a rent-to-own house he had before he got locked up. The result of waking guys up in the middle of the night is that guys will be awake to get happy as crackheads over crackhead ideas. Both of the two loudmouths have years to go on their prison sentences but today, in the middle of the night is the time to get excited about a home that is now most likely offered to someone else by the same shady "ownership" scheme. I probably should have wrote about my dream right away. It was a decent four hours of sleep and when these idiots shut up then I will try for more. Sleep!