I’ve been remiss in not writing for a few days. We’ve been really busy and I’ve been a bit overcome by events. The area has had a bit of indirect fire, but nothing too crazy. We’ve been very lucky.
I really wanted to take this post to thank everyone for the cards, letters, and emails. It’s really great to be able to come home (to my room) or wake up and see the little envelop on the screen saying that I’ve got mail. I also had the opportunity to talk to some family and friends this week using skype. Great program and it’s completely free to talk to someone else on the network…I’m only paying 2 cents per minute to call cell phones…..
I suspended my last post because I really wasn’t sure what I was going to write about. Today I had several topics just land in my lap. The first topic is that of bureaucracy…..yep you read it right….bureaucracy. You might ask waht could I possibly have to write about on that topic? Please remind yourself that I am in the Army…I believe the government perfected the term. I had two things happen this week. One is exactly how I believe life should be and an on-going one that if the definition of holding up progress.
The theater is fielding some new equipment and we are slated to get the equipment. Here’s how the whole process went: 1) I met the fielding team and we decided we needed the equipment, 2) They emailed me to confirm they could arrive on a given day and 3) they arrived with the equipment….done! No letters of justification requesting to get a piece of equipment everyone knows we need or no headquarters who told us to buy the equipment and now insists we need to request the money to pay for it through them. Just an empowered team acting on their mandate. It was very refreshing and I could not have been happier.
Then the opposite end occurs! My Deputy Mayor called to arrange the turn-in of some excess monitors that have never been on the property books. These monitors are several years old and have reached the end of their life. He was told that we need to add them to the property book before we can turn them in and have them removed from the property book! Needless to say, I was floored, but I can’t say it was wholly unexpected.
I am just going to focus on the fielding team and know that that’s how it should be! I’ll write about my other topic tomorrow night when I also talk about the great trip my dad, brother and I will be taking to glamorous Las Vegas in August.
Have a great night and I look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Fred
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