Supply Warrior

Friday, the weekend when we get half a day off. The wrong half because we come to work at noon. I've always enjoyed afternoons off much more than mornings.
Baghdad was hot today, how hot I don't know but the needle on the thermometer was buried deep past 120. It feels like a hair dryer blowing in your face when its that hot outside. Oddly, my climate complaint in Baghdad has always been that it is too cold. Walking from 110 degrees outside to a a 70 degree office is a big swing in temperature. Today I wore shorts because we don't have to wear uniforms on Fridays. This comes in handy when I've waited too long to drop a bag off at the laundry and I'm running out of t-shirts.
The highlight of the day was sitting thru a 90 minute meetng on property book management. Turns out there is no accountability for any of the property (computers, copiers, printers, refrigerators, etc) thru-out the AOR. But KBR is working on it. I was far and away the most junior person at the meeting. It ended with a Colonel looking at me saying - draft up a policy. Vagaries is how admin people in the military like me look busy while doing nothing, calling it policy which will be enforced by no one.
I picked up some clorox and a bucket and a swab to clean my trailer today. For the past three days I've swept the layers of Iraq dust off the deck. A necessary step. Last time I was on my knees with a wet sponge to swap the deck. It came out with nice swashed of mud on linoleum.