Efficiency

We have been on island now for 2 years! Can you believe it? 2 years...wow. In those 2 years minor things have been needing repair around the house. I have been procrastinating the call to maintenance, but finally got around to it last week. I called Monday afternoon with my list of needed repairs. Tuesday morning at 7am(the only part of this story that doesn't make me happy...I was still asleep!) a nice man calls and says the repair crew are on their way. Get up, get dressed, make the beds (they had to go into the bedrooms to fix a few things), doorbell rings.
I open the door and, ok, I have to pause here, it's just quite that amazing.
The guy was replacing the screen in our front door! It had a small tear in it where the kids had gotten all 'creative' and made a place to hand things back and forth without actually having to open the door. May not sound so amazing at first. But! That wasn't even on my repair list. He did it without me asking!!!!
Thomas was lying on the couch, half asleep, half awake, actually make that more asleep, less awake.
I yell to him:
"Do you see this?"
"He fixed the screen!?"
"I didn't ask him to fix the screen!"
"He saw it needed repair and he fixed it!"
"Can we keep him?"
Thomas:
"I could have done that."

As for my list of repairs...all done, in less than 30 minutes. I love how the workers storm in, perform quality work, with such efficiency and speed. Another thing I will miss about this place.

Many of you know we came here on a three year tour July 2006-July 2009. So, with those orders we are on our last year here. Time to catch every festival that we kept say, we'll do it next year, eat at the restaurants we never made it to, all those things.
Well, we have decided to stay longer! Thomas has submitted the paper work to extend us here until July 2010. It has been approved by his command here at Kadena, just waiting on the official work from PACAF. .
We wanted to do another three year tour (which would have come with benefits such as free airline tickets home, and extra leave days), but, his reenlistment/retainability dates weren't working in our favor. He will be eligible to reenlist in March. If we are still enjoying this Air Force ride, he will reenlist, and if we are still enjoying our lives here, we will try to change the extension to another three year tour at that time.
So as of today, we could have 11 months left, 23 months, or 35.......