How are you doing? I’m doing good. My name is Joshua, but you can call me Booga. I’m 39 years young, weigh about 240 lbs. and stand at 6’1. I have a curly fro hawk. So, I got this knock off Patrick Mahomes look with a big gap between my teeth. A couple more are crooked, but I have them all and they all white so fuck it. Ok.

I’m from South Houston. It’s a mix of fast activity with a slowed down vibe and a slight country feel in a big city. I grew up in a social community circle of family and family friends. School years were in the city. Most summers were in the country. Places like Crosby Texas where I would wake up early in the morning. Put on some boots, grab some chicken feed and go to the chicken yard then throw the chicken feed on the ground, go back in the house and eat breakfast. Then I’ll go back to the chicken yard and grab the chicken eggs out the chicken houses and the rest of the day would consist of grabbing pecans out of trees, mowing grass and shooting bb guns out cans, sticks, and leaves.

When I would go to Louisiana I would clean the horse stalls, walk to get them a bath and actually bathe them. Shit, sometimes I’ll take my clothes off and bathe outside too when too much water and mud got on my clothes. These things seem easy but being from the city, this shit was hard. I would rather be at home with cable television, video games, computer and a room all to myself so when I had to go to the country for weeks out of the Summer it was hard out there for the booya.

I appreciate that shit now. I have so many good hard experiences to draw upon now. From getting on fieldtrips at school to getting ran out the house on weekends with all that noise and talking I keep up. I got the chance to go to baseball games and hockey games. Which is strange for someone from the hood. What type of hood person goes to a hockey game? Well, when you got a cousin that gets free tickets and gives them to your sister and friends.

They take all the good shit like concert tickets, and I’m left with monster trucks! Either that or sitting outside the porch until the sun goes down. Outside of feeling cheated out of free kid entertainment. I miss my two sisters and my nieces and nephews. I look at their pictures and daydream about all the fun things we could be doing together. That’s how I’ve been able to stay strong down here going on 9 years on a 20-year sentence, well that, reading books and working out.

Reading books like fantasy and Western puts my mind in another place, working out helps with the stress and keeps my health up. I’m a sports guy and comedy; I like to laugh. Mostly football, college too. My NFL team is the Dallas Cowboys! My college team is UT (Longhorns)! And I’ll take Michigan over Ohio state every time they play. As far as working out goes, I’m on some healthy stuff right now. Rice, eggs and peanut butter. I’m on some cardio right now, working on cutting my weight down.

Harry Potter is my all-time favorite fantasy series. I read hard core fantasies like “Sword of Truth” and “Wheel of time”. William Johnstones “Mountain Man” series is my western reads, and that’s pretty much how I do my time. Basically reading, exercising and watc