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An email arrived yesterday afternoon, the contents of which demanded that we meet with the mayor. We scheduled a meeting for 0900 and went over. The chiefs of the electrical company and the radio and tv-station also happened to be visiting the mayor, so I took the opportunity to meet them, too. The issue at hand was quickly resolved - in fact it was such a concise meeting, that I decided to omit the otherwise obligatory writing of a report. I could convey the message from the mayor to the person who sent the email later this afternoon, when I would meet him in person.

After lunch we took off for Camp Northern Lights, where the commander's conference is to be held tonight and tomorrow. It's the first conference with the new commander, but it must be something in the way of the fifth or sixth time for myself. I hope that my lack of enthusiasm doesn't show too clearly. With us we took the commander of MOT E, who got some acute pains in the leg. Our medics thought that it would be best to let the doctor have a look.

In CNL it was extremely hot, as expected, but it still felt hotter than one could expect. The initial briefings of the conference lasted until 2115. It was dark but still very hot outside, when I went to have a non-alcoholic beer in the Swedish mess, the Glowing Scorpion bar. Our accommodation tent, called Lebanon, was considerably cooler than the air outside, but it was still far too hot to sleep comfortably, as it turned out.