Just call me Bob.

It seems that I have earned myself a new name. I am being called "Bob the Builder" and also "Bob Villa." It looks like I have impressed a few people that had no clue I could make things happen. This is a great place to be for me, right now. At least for the most part.

There is a dark cloud in the sky over me right now. The man that used to do my job here, as Camp Mayor, is back. He tried to go home by pulling some strings back home and getting reassigned. It seems that he does not like the people he has to work for. Well any way, he pulled some strings and went home and the strings got CUT and he was called back in. He is not a happy camper right now. Any way, he is trying to take it out on me. He does not want the job of Camp Mayor, but, he wants all the perks. I am not sure how to handle this one. I know I can leave here anytime I choose. I just need to say the word and I am down range on the front lines doing my job. The one I was trained to do and the one that I was brought back from retirement for. I do not know if I want to pull that trump card just yet. I am kind of enjoying this job.

Here are the issues I have to deal with. 1, since we were told to put the curtains back up in the showers, I decided to have my guys cut the curtains to Knee high. Not a big deal, right? Well he had a cow and ordered my guys not to do it. It seems that he wants to run the Mayor Cell, but, does not want the job of the Mayor. 2, I just found out that he thinks the Mayor Cell vehicle is HIS vehicle. He does not seem to understand that he is no longer the Mayor and is the First Sergeant only, since he did not want to do both jobs. But, the 1SG does not rate a personal vehicle, even though he was using it as such when he was the Mayor. I needed the vehicle for some official business and it seems that he took the keys with him to the hooch since HE does not want people driving HIS vehicle.

Like I said, I am not sure how I am going to deal with this one. It looks like I am going to have to either push against the tide or just step aside and let him have the Mayor cell back and hope he drowns in the work. I know that I have done more in the last 2 weeks as Mayor than he did in the last 3 months. I have received many complements from the local tenants as to how much better the camp looks and how glad they are that someone cares about this camp enough to get things done. The only things that got done before were the things that directly affected his comfort of living.

I guess I will have to see what happens tomorrow when I confront him on this vehicle issue. It is going to get pretty ugly. I guess I will write again soon and pass on what came of it.

I have some pictures of some of the project I have done. There is the water point here in the camp and the wall I built in the Battalion office to separate it for a new work space. there are a few more, but, I do not have pictures of them just yet. I will post them as soon as I get them.