While I was in jail (May 8 to June 12 and October 17 to November 26, 2019 = 75 days), I did a lot of crying, swearing, and yelling. I was emotionally oscillating wildly since I did not understand why I was being held in jail essentially incommunicado. What held me together was saying the Pledge of Allegiance repeatedly using the racially charged words, “under God”, my Crude music, cleaning the grate of my latrine, and my loud lectures on some military history as I remembered it. The words “under God” were not in the original Pledge. I am an agnostic, but I recognize and follow certain contemporary Christian and other religious traditions. I have forgotten whether I was on my current medication of ABILIFY, hydroxyzine (generic Vistaril), levothyroxine, and olanzapine (generic ZYPREXA) while in jail. The preceding list of drugs are just becoming very efficient at controlling my moods.
I was a very much a mood oscillating individual while on my 127 day junket to Pathways Center Second Season. I was easily moved by music and small kind gestures of the staff. The staff found that the best way to keep me relatively stable was to play music for me or look up historical events for me. The staffer who brought the musical toy for me to use two days also bought me a book about the “One Hundred Greatest Battles” or a similar title. I could not read it due to the size of the book’s printed font.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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