markjgsmith

Captivity Notes: Mon 13th Jan 2025

08:26 am:

• Quite an eventful morning. I didn’t get much sleep. The officers have been processing the bloke they brought in late last night and put in the cell. Strange situation this morning, somehow he ended up with an officers shirt, and had put it on and was trying to get my attention through the bars around 5am. Seemed like he was drunk perhaps. Difficult to tell. Eventually an officer artived from the other room, who looked about as confused as I was.
• When they brought him out just a short while ago, he wasn’t wearing the officers shirt.
• Interestingly there was an old shirt in the cell on the floor the past 2 days, but they removed it from the cell and put it on the floor in the room where I am sitting.
• I went into the main room, the door was open since they were dealing with the bloke from last night. I asked the officer that originally brought me here, where the toilet was, he pointed towards the prison cell toilet in his non-challant might be joking but then again maybe not joking style. One of the other officers showed me where the propper toilet is. There is a shower in there too.

10:59:

• No breakfast again this morning
• Everything feels full everywhere. Prison cell is full, this room has been chocablock with officers. The room outside chocablock, and outside onbthe other side of the wall women yakking away most of the morning.

11:10ish:

• The bloke that has been in the room with me since yesterday afternoon just gave me 4 slices of bread.

11:21:

• Original officer that brought me here is now walking past door into main room saying 'no no no no no no no' then locking door, then sitting in front of it. Note that I now have no access to a bathroom unless I go through them. So no toilet, no running water.
• The room is also filling up with garbage as most of the officers, don’t seem very enthusiastic about taking out the rubbish. I can’t do it because the door is locked.
• Man arguing with woman on other side of wall outside.

11:31:

• Other bloke just got given a propper food meal. Nothing for me though. His food meal is in noticeably large food box. Much larger than the usual ones.

11:50:

• Officer popped in to give me a regular sizes food box.
• The bloke in the prison cell saw we were both eating and totally lost his shit. The other bloke had given him a few slices of bread eatlier too. Bread slices bloke gave him some of his food. This is such a strange situation.

13:06:

• The bloke in the prison cell starting loosing his shit again, banging the door. Eventually two officers arrived and talked to him, he calmed down. One officer asked me if I wanted some food. I said I had just eatten, but that another bottle of water would be great. The large bottle of water they gave me two days ago is now finished. He asked for money, so at this stage it looks like I’m not going to be getting anymore drinking water.
• The officers brought food to the prisoner bloke. Prisoner bloke ate food and threw his garbage through the bars and onto the floor of the room that I’m in, with the other bloke that showed up yesterday.

18:04:

• They are playing silly games with the drinking water. It’s the same old bullcrap that’s been happening for months. Making it look like they are helping whild creating problems and trying to blame me for everything. The bloke in the room with me often goes up to the officers and gives them money and gets things like coffee and bread. I previously got given a large water. I was then repeatedly told to essentially beg for food and water right after they gave me the 3rd degree for begging, which I had not been doing and being in a begging gang, which I have never been in. Then when I finally politely ask for some water to drink they say no, and ask for money. Then they bring a bottle of room temperature water to the guy in the prison cell, which appeared to have been paid for by the guy who is in the room with me. Then prison cell guy throws the water back through the bars into the room. Eventually the other bloke goes over and picks it up and gives it back to him. Prison cell bloke is constantly making noises like he is consoling a crying baby, while acting like an angry crying baby himself. Then an officer enters the room with a large ice cold bottle of water and puts it on the table, saying something to the other bloke in the room, who ignores the officer. So now there is a perfectly good bottle of cold water warming up on the table, and I’ve hardly had anything to drink all day. Oh and another officer just came in and gave the prison cell bloke another meal, but no meals for me and the other guy. And prison cell bloke in a second will throw his garbage into the room and it will just sit there filling up with cock roaches.
• It’s all just the same old bullcrap that always happens here. Food goading, water goading, anger goading, plus infiniti minus infiniti. Will I get water to drink or food to eat this evening? Who knows? But one thing is for certain everyone will be more unhappy than they already are.
• I had made quite a lot of progress on an unfinished feature from last week’s sprint. It’s solved and tested, but implementing it in all the repos is tedious and error prone. I speng several hours on it but have run out of energy, and without water I can’t focus. Oh well maybe some other time when worldo isn’t angrily blocking everything while trying to make me angry.

18:43:

• The other bloke in here just got given some tastey dinner, nothing for me though. The cold water is still sitting there unopenned.
• No doubt I’ll get blamed for my own statvation and thirsting in a second.

19:12:

• The officer that denied me water earlier just entered momentatily, asked if I was going to drink the water, I said I thought it was the other bloke’s, I said any water or food would be great. He said why? And walked off.

19:20:

• The officer that originally brought here just showed up with a ban mi sandwich which he gave me, then tried to decant some of the water into an existing empty bottle belonging to the other bloke. It’s good to get some water finally but I insisted on having the 1/2 bottle in the new bottle because the other bloke has a really nasty cough.