On my way home I drive by a Navy housing area. There is a contractor replacing the huge concrete fence around the area. It had been damaged in either an earthquake or typhoon. The old fence is coming out in 2'X4' pieces of precast concrete blocks. My friend Gordon has been making off with these blocks by the pickup truck load. He's been using them as walkways and patio blocks at his house and at a rental house he has in Agat. I saw him there when driving in to work the other day, sweat streaming down his face as he carefully tipped another block into his truck. He estimates he's moved about two tons of them by now. He's quite the scrounger and pack rat. And he is yet another example of the good people I have met here.

Today at lunch one of our officers had a list of places we can easily reach from Guam. The list showed terrorist and criminal threat levels. Some areas, like North Korea, are strictly off limits. Others, like China are low level threats. One amusing point. Each country is listed as having a certain threat level for criminal activity. That would denote a certain familiarity with the police reports in those countries. The indication for Guam, a United States possession, is "undetermined". Ain't that odd?