As a Combat Engineer outfit – we had an enormous number of vehicles and equipment to maintain. The Battalion Motor Office (BMO) and the Maintenance ...ergeant met us outside the 40-foot CONEX that doubled as their office and the tool locker.The CSM took the lead after we reached our vehicles. He had me and the BMO crawling in, under, around bull-dozers, road graders, dump trucks, MRAPs, HEMMTs, flat-beds, low-boys and fuel tankers and Petroleum, Oil and Lubrication (POL) trucks making sure I. Yesterday, on Monday, dad took me and Sarah to call for Rachel and Al. We dropped them at their school and then Rachel and I were dropped off at mine – what had formerly been ours.A lot of the kids were really nice and asked Rachel why she was here and she told them about the earthquake and the big waves. But when we got to my classroom, Mr. Simmonds asked what she was doing there. I said that she was my guest."She can't be a guest, she's a former student!" he said."Well, then she's a visitor.". Bradson and I were up rather long hours last night discussing how the division of responsibilities should be handled as well as our official roles in the new household. We had promised Master and Lady Anderson we'd have everything worked out long before they return." And did you reach an agreement," Ana asked."I believe so, Ms. Bradson is officially the cook, but she will also attend to the housekeeping and the duties of an upstairs maid." And you," Hannah asked."I am officially the butler, but. I was -- oh -- 85 percent confident that I was reading her signals properly.Dinner -- our jointly prepared dinner -- was a triumph, and we decided we would do it again, very soon, and next time, invite Herm and Betsy over to enjoy it with us.Not tonight, however. Tonight was ours alone."Want to watch a movie?" Shirley asked me. She had admired my big-screen television set on more than one occasion, and teased me about the perks associated with being an unmarried man with a reasonably high.