"On a flip note, I'm trying to convince them to let me teach a Graphic Design class to the inmates here. If anything, it will get me out of my scooping shit job... So maybe put the word out to PBJ that if anyone has any used Graphic Design books, any, I could put them to good use. They just have to clearly spell out on the envelope they send in: "BOP Approved reading material - Books" on the outside. And it can't have a hard cover. "

News from our lad. So - any of you guys ever taken any design courses? Any of you guys have any left-over graphic design textbooks?

• That happen to be softcover?

• That you can do without?

• That you're willing to eat the 4th class book rate postage on? (it's cheap, trust me)

Send 'em to Youngluck, address in the sidebar:

Dante Orpilla #49007-112

FCI SHERIDAN, SATELLITE CAMP P.O. BOX 6000

SHERIDAN, OR 97378 USA

Write "BOP Approved reading material - Books" on the side and he'll get 'em! yay!

Only other note I can offer is that if you don't have a Pitney-Bowes postage meter, you'll need to bring the books to your post office. The USPS has an unpublished mandate that all packages (of any kind) with stamps on them are officially BOMBS and are to be returned to the sender. They even put a special sticker on the back that says "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS NOTICE TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE USPS."

(but it's the post office, so they left it on, and I had to go down and say "whiskey tango foxtrot" which earned me an eyeroll)