22 June 2007: Denied at W&M Service

Now that I'm back in Anaconda I figured my first order of business would be to get the AC repaired in the Admiral. The leasing company is called W&M. If you recall from an entry around a month ago, they occupy the big pimpin' trailer on the west side. After breakfast I took a trek over to their location. They took one look and said "leave here and pick up tomorrow." I told them I had no ride and that I was going to Baghdad the next day. They had a group huddle for a private discussion (I'm not sure what the secret was). After a few minutes the ringleader came back and said "bring to us Monday when you return." I shrugged my shoulders and said fine. I won't be driving the thing over the weekend anyway so ok. It can go a few more days without the AC fan. I did step into the trailer again just to refresh my memory of it's tacky opulence.

When I arrived at the office my soldiers were watching "Casino". I've never seen the movie. I tried not to watch but it was projected on the wall. My impression was it tried hard to look like "Goodfellas". It even had some of the same actors. I've noticed that Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro seem to be the same characters no matter what the movie.

I'm leading a four-man mission back to Camp Liberty over the weekend. We found out our flight was very early the next morning. With that in mind, I released everyone on the mission (including myself) so we could have a little time off prior to leaving. I realized I didn't have an alarm clock so after supper I headed to the PX. They didn't have one either. At this point I was about to stress over how I would wake up so early. That's when I figured out that my iPod has an alarm clock (duh!). I set it on Baghdad time and hooked it into my speakers. Now I'm good to go.

Next few days will be back at Liberty. The return to being busy is upon me. Now I can be on the lookout for crazy Joe-isms, Port-o-Jon grafitti, and great photo ops. It all makes for good blog commentary so I hope you're still hanging with me.