Arrivals

I slept only four hours and woke up at 1000. I didn’t feel at all tired, so I went for a run on the treadmill. In the afternoon the PO patrol and MOT E arrived with 3 newcomers, one to the PO and two to MOT E. They brought 20 cases of soft drinks. The support branch of the leading nation has repeatedly said that there will be no more soft drinks or sweets delivered to the PO’s. We feel that it’s wrong, because there is no PX store (postal exchange) from where to buy soft drinks or sweets at the provincial offices, and it’s not like we could go out to town to do some shopping, either. Patrols that don’t serve any specific operative purpose are explicitly prohibited. So far the food transports have included soft drinks and sweets like before, despite the promises (or threats, rather) from G4 that there will be no more of that.

I met the guard’s commander and discussed with him the issue of the guard that everyone else are annoyed with. I also asked for his help to arrange two dinner parties in the near future; one for the local employees and another for our neighbours and the VIP’s of the neighbourhood. Both occasions will first and foremost serve the purpose of introducing the new PO commander and second in command to the locals.

The electrician worked all day to finalise his work. He replaced the one cable that was providing electricity to the main building with three cables: one to the operations room, a second to the first floor and a third to the second floor switchboard. So far everything seems to work just fine. When we got the ops room back online, the welfare internet connection would not reboot. It turned out that the electrical problems that we had had during the week had erased the firmware on our welfare internet hub. No more surfing in the accommodation spaces until we get a new hub. I went to bed early (at 2000) and fell asleep instantly.