Day 3 - The best update yet

I'm high as a kite. Feeling much better. Smoked some weed. So somebody on AIM asked me:

What is St. Pete like?

St. Pete (where I'm from) is probably one of the largest suburban sprawls of ghetto in the United States, if not the world. Well, when I say ghetto... down here, we have the ghetto, the hood, and projects. We have white neighborhoods too, of course, but isn't that kind of fucked up that you can tell a difference? Too bad there is just a bunch of old white people down here, since this is Florida and they all flock here to die like a bunch of sick birds.

So the entire area and region is run from welfare, schools, jails, social security, medicade... a place where nobody makes money, we have something down at a big area in downtown St. Pete called "First Friday". Why is it called that? Because we're some responsible fucking leeches!

We only go get fucked up on the first Friday after we get all of our welfare and government cheese. Not just the first day we get it (hence the Bone Thugs song... "First of the Month"). So we'll all get tore up on the first Friday and still make it back to work at our non-existant unemployment jobs (I guess is the logic), and dodge child support payments or whatever we're doing. Haha, fucked up or what? :P

So anyways, let me tell you a story. I used to live on 2nd Avenue South and 29th Street (South). You can still go there, this still exists. My house was the one with the huge huge yard with all kinds of plants and trees and shit in it, all mulched, several hundred square feet (I suck at measurements, like the size of 4 yards). It has boardwalks with waterfalls and shit, coyfish and all this water all through it, parrots and birds and squirrels and cats and dogs that live in that bitch like a fucking man made jungle... ANYWAYS

Right on the corner outside the gate, the crack dealers and the crack whore hooker chickenhead bitches that live on the same block are there, stationed. So yes, I've smoked many a blunt of dro for free. Maybe now it is easier to see why I'm having to write a blog like this right?

One of my peoples came by earlier and smoked me out some nice weed, and I took some pics of me with the collar on that, as soon as he gets home and sends them over here (I dunno where him and his fat bitch girlfriend went, somewheres, probably to eat food, and she is pregnatn so she is eating for a baby too plus a huge whale), but anyways whenever he gets back and I got those damn pictures, I'm finna upload them.

Pretty much, they are pics of me, blowing weed smoke, on to my little collar shit. Pretty tight, RIGHT?! Damn right!

So anyway, that is what St. Pete is like. I been working on mad tight new tracks and everything too. I watched that new Reno 911 last night, pretty funny. Besides that not too much updates. I went to work today...

Oh and I got some 2c-i that I'll probably be taking tomorrow night. If I can I'll take some pics for the blog, that'd be tight, eh? Hell yeah! So hopefully I can keep you guys as updated as possible with much evidence of my m4d sk111z. Until then, <3

Day 2... "The Sickness Continues"

Today, I didn't go to work (again). I woke up just as sick, if not sicker, than yesterday. I really didn't think I'd be up to making a post today. When I first woke up, I called my Sheriff and told him I wasn't going to work. Only got an answering machine... but it seemed to be sufficient.

I haven't had any problems sleeping or anything with the equipment on. It is actually almost entirely unnoticable now, which I think is good.

I laid down some money to go buy three things today, the first three things I've bought so far on house arrest (besides some McDonalds on the way home from the orientation yesterday). I didn't end up going to the store by my self, but I think it might be beneficial to document all the things I've bought...

Definitely helping with the cough. I've at e a decent amount of them already. Black Cherry flavor, by the way. The only actual ingredient, is MENTHOL. Why can't I just smoke a fucking cigarette then?!

I really want to smoke a cigarette... bad. Did I mention I've been unable to smoke pretty much the entire time I've been sick? I even considered quitting the habit a few times, and even became delusioned in to thinking it was the root of my entire problem/sickness. I might try to smoke a cigarette as I make this update... I'll let you know how it goes.

Yay, Tea! I like this tea sometimes. It is available for 99 cents a lot of places, and I mean, look at how massive it is! Maybe the picture doesn't do it much justice, but the cans are much larger than your standard "soda" or "pop" cans (down here, in Florida, we say Soda, but I know you might have a different dialect... I've met people who refer to all carbonated beverages as "coke" before).

This update is turning out a lot better than the last one. I actually checked Google Analytics recently, and realized... wow, I actually have readers! So, hello, whoever you may be! Feel free to leave some comments ;)

For those of you who don't know, Google Analytics is an amazing service available to all webmasters, bloggers, and other people who control any section of the "web".

www.google.com/analytics/

The service is described as:

"Google Analytics (abbreviated GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA's analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position."

Really, to me, it is a bunch of fancy graphs and charts I use to track traffic. I wont spill the details on the numbers yet, but I have a lot more readers than I originally expected, which is great. Even if I had no readers, I'd still write "The Collar" for my own enjoyment.

This is the other product I bought. Definitely a great help with my "sickness". Because of Coricidin, I feel I was able to make this update to "The Collar".

Some people ( http://www.dextroverse.org/ ) take similar cough medications containing dextromethorhpan to achieve a dissassociative high/trip. (Been a member since 2004, if I recall) It was actually kind of strange to finally take dextromethorphan for the intended usage, and, let me say, it works great!

I tried to smoke a Newport... it went pretty good until about half-way through. Then it became too irritating to my sinuses and throat to continue smoking. I really wish I could though :(

I like to add images, I feel it adds a lot to the text. Give me a little while to start having photos though... like I said, I need a new digital camera. Hopefully, until then, you enjoy my stock Google Image Search images that I use to spruce up the text :).

Day 1

Today, I went to orientation, and got all the "equipment". I also woke up, extremely sick. A runny nose, a cough, sweating like crazy and just generally feeling horrible. I slept away the majority of the day, trying to regain my health.

It worked slightly... I also took some medicine a lttle while ago that seems to be paying off. I'll make a more informative and complete update tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Day Zero... The Day Before... Part 2

Now, I feel low. Very low. Kind of as if the entire pressure of getting cut off from the majority of the world crushes down on me. Only small remnants of how great I felt earlier remain, echoing through me every so often reminding me that shit is going to be okay in the long run.

I went out and partied for the last time in a while tonight. I'm not so sure how I feel about it. I'd go in to details about all what I did... I feel almost a bit paranoid to for some reason (and trust me, I'm the most wide open person you'd ever meet). Isn't that crazy? With all the anonimity the internet provides me...

Tomorrow, I go to get my new jewelery. Why don't I feel so enthusiastic about it as I was just a short while ago? Not even all the drugs I'm on, forcing me to feel physically orgasmic, can't help ease the mental shit I'm currently dragging through.

Maybe I need a cigarette. I'm lighting up a Newport as I type this. I'm a fan of nicotine. I'm not one of those smokers who wishes they could quit, because I could, if I really wanted to. I rarely smoke at the same alarming rate as a lot of other smokers. I do it socially, of course, but I also do it privately to help me out with things.

A cigarette, relieves so much stress for me. Depending on what mood I'm in, I might smoke it more deeply, absorbing more of the effects I seek when thinking about how great a cigarette would be. Usually, I'm not priviledged enough to have a cigarette on hand, for whatever reason... but I can always get one through chance and coincidence (if I really try).

Whatever damage I may be causing my lungs, heart, and so-forth I feel are almost negligible for how long I actually plan on being alive for... I could die tomorrow for all I know! I just wish they (cigarettes) weren't so expensive. Sometimes I settle for lesser brands of Menthol.

Where I live, you can only buy class A cigarettes. You can buy 20 class A menthol cigarettes (305's, to be specific, named after the area code of Miami, FL, not too far from me) for $1.80 a pack, or, 3 for $5. Which is a play on the name, but also a great deal. They just aren't anywhere near as flavorful and enjoyable as some of the name brands though... like Newports. Lucky I have this one burning as I type ;)

I think writing this has helped me ease a lot of my mental pain at the moment. My anxiety and worries are slowly lifting from me, fading in to the air like the smoke from my cigarette.

Is that good writing? I don't know what is. Hopefully somebody enjoys reading this. Even if they don't, I definitely enjoy writing it.

Here is a re-typing of the letter I got, scheduling my appointment tomorrow
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Sheriff Jim Coats

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

"Leading The Way For A Safer Pinellas"

February 12, 2008

(My name and address)

NOTIFICATION OF REPORT DATE

ELECTRONIC MONITORING

Please note that you are scheduled to report Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 by 9:30 AM, to the Sheriff's Administration Support Building, 14500-49th Street North, Clearwater, FL to begin your required sentence on the Electronic Monitoring Program. The first day of processing will take approximately (2-3) hours. Please arrange your schedule accordingly.

Upon arrival, please key in the number 10 to acces the building.

Please call our office upon reciept of this letter at (727) 453-7517 or (727) 453-7922

Sincerely,

JIM COATS, Sheriff

Pinellas County Florida

Harietta Pinckney

Alternative Sentencing Unit, Supervisor

Detention and Correction Bureau

JC/HP:sk

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They sure do say "please" a lot...

I'll try and update this blog some time tomorrow, detailing how the trip went, and then the rest of the day. It might take me a few days to get some more pictures up, I'll try and work on that as soon as possible (probably have to go buy a new digital camera).

The Day Before... Day Zero

This is the day before my house arrest starts. Right now, I'm at work... enjoying my self. I'm a programmer (PHP/MySQL/CSS/XML) for a mid-sized company in the security industry. I love my job. The type of work I do, enables me to be online the majority of the day, unsupervised (I'm the network administrator). Staying connected to the rest of the world socially is a big part of my life.

I use AIM, MySpace, Facebook, and all those kinds of services to help me keep in touch with people who are local to me. I'm also a fan of IRC. I'll update this a bit later. Work just picked up and I'm going to go make my self useful.

How did I get here?

This update (still before my actual term on "The Collar" begins) will help get readers up to speed on why I'm here in the first place. Who I am, where I am, what I am charged with, and why I am doing this, so to speak.

I'm a 20 year old male, from the United States (Florida). During the day, I'm a programmer for a mid-sized company that offers many security related products. At night, I'm an aspiring drug lord and professional psychonaut. No, that isn't a tampon up my nose, that is a vicks inhaler. Anyone familiar with MDMA use should know all about that.

My three joys in life, are drugs, sex, and money. I'm also very fond of computers and the internet. Probably not too different from your self. Once difference between us, is that I am being subjected to a period of work release, which I have decided to blod about. Why am I enduring this punishment in the first place?

Ironically, despite my employment at a security-based company, a lot of my charges have to do with retail theft and burglary. I also have a marijuanna posession charge from when I first turned 18. Some of these charges I may later detail further for the sake of clarity. For the moment, I'll give you a basic run-down...

As far as I can recall, my record holds 5 felony charges (with two VOP(f)s, Violation of Probation; Felony), three misdemeanors (with an FTA, Failure to Appear, and a VOP(m), Violation of Probation; Misdemeanor), and currently have no traffic or driving related charges.

My liscence, however, is suspended/revoked in the state of Florida because one of my charges was drug-related, and common procedure is to take away an offenders liscence for two years. Luckily for me, that time will be up around the same time as "The Collar" is taken off.

Not having a liscence might make being on "The Collar" slightly easier, as I'll be much less tempted to drive somewhere. At the same time, it adds an extra dimension of difficulty, because I'll be unable to be where I'm supposed to, when I'm supposed to, as easily as if I was able to drive there.

This blog will probably contain many references to illegal activities, which may include drug abuse. "The Collar" is not meant for underaged readers, or people who are easily offended by such content. I didn't get to this point in my life by following the rules exactly as they are written. One of the main reasons I was placed on "The Collar" instead of serving multiple years on felony probation, is because I am unable to pass regular drug tests.

The main reason I always test positive, can definitely be linked to one particular substance...

Marijuana

On "The Collar", I am no longer subject to drug testing. This greatly increases my ability to successfully complete the sentence imposed on me. I hope that one day, I'll submit the final entry to this blog. Something along the lines of... "Today, The Collar was removed".

Until then, enjoy the ride with me. Feel free to leave comments, as I've allowed everyone the ability to speak their mind on this blog. I do appreciate the support of my family and friends up to this point, and I'm sure many future posts will include references to them.

Introduction

On the 26th of February, I will begin ~100 days of court-imposed house arrest/work release... "The Collar".

"The Work Release Program is monitored through the use of an electronic ankle bracelet with a built-in GPS (global positioning satellite) system. This technology combines data from the tracking device and a computer based map to track your movements 24 hours a day. Typically, you may be limited to travel only associated with employment or school"

"The Collar" is for low-risk, non-violent offenders who have to serve more than 30 days, but less than a year. It is offered as a way to continue employment or education, as an alternative to serving time in jail. Such is the fate of your loyal blogger.


Yes, that is me to the right, most people call me "Jack". You can do the same. I do smoke cigarettes (my favorite brand is Newport). That doesn't appear to be a cigarette in the particular picture I've chose, however.

During my time on "The Collar", I'll document exactly what I go through on a day to day basis. How "The Collar" effects my social life, my professional life, and all other aspects of my daily operations as a human being. The entire purpose of this blog, is for entertainment, although I'd imagine that the posts will be very educational.

People who might be interested in this blog include every day average people who might be curious about alternative sentencing. Individuals who are also facing similar fates, may find this blog helpful for coping with their own situations. I plan to update the blog daily, with as many relevant pictures as I can and as much insight as I can provide from my own perspective.