Author: Vic Socotra

Talking With the Traders from Tabriz

Our Creative Section leader, Miles, is back this morning for a somewhat bass-ackward Production Meeting. He has been gone nearly two weeks, so it feels a little like the mayoral primary out in California, where the rug merchants apparently found enough extra ballots to get rid of that entertaining Pratt fellow. It is still too […]

Let the Games Begin!

Socotra house Logistics Staff brings up emergency supplies for the intelligence Reorganization just starting over at Langley! We started with this item this morning from the ongoing churn of astonishing issues in this curious place we all share: “President Trump said he wants incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte to “start the process” […]

Anniversary of Something Big….

Below is a picture of the corner at 58 Bagley Ave in Detroit. It was once a house belonging to a young man named Henry Ford, who worked as Chief Engineer over at the Edison plant in what was then near downtown in a place looking toward the future. On the first ride- a pal […]

Modern Crisis Logistics

Hi! Deirdre is test driving a little electric cart to see if it would work to cover the ten minute walk over to the Organic Butcher to establish a new supply chain for supplies as this crisis season unfolds. The crisis overseas has evolved into a curious status of occasional kintetic events, like the Hellfire […]

Rex Entertainment: Bulk Beef for Summer!

OK- this is an exciting morning! Holly and I are organizing the summer pantry for impromptu BBQ’s and shift-change mass buffets. We have the place to ourselves due to the international situation. Our Section leader miles is off playing with his old Maritime Patrol shipmates and The Boys are part of our conspiracy to get […]

National Rotisserie Chicken Day

Hi! It’s Deirdre in charge this morning. Section Leader Miles is over at the pentagon meeting with some other retired folks to support the Hormuz Straits Working Group and The Boys are down on the patio assembling the Russell Cooktop and Joyce and I apparently have the Conference Room to ourselves this morning. The Boys […]

Deiredre and Something Simple

It was a man-free Monday at the Confrence Room thi morning. It wasn’t intentional. Section Leader Miles Milligan was apparently down at Tampa with some old CENTCOM shipmates talking about convoy escort duty. Vapor, Splash, Vic and Rocket had not returned from their real estate investigation yesterday, which suggested they had found new places to […]

Socotra house Afternoon Edition

Splash and Roket rolled in late for the Production Meeting, happy that Deirdre had an idea for the Daily in the stack of Post-It notes affixed to her tablet. i am working on a marinaded flank steak recipe that will let you guys pretend to be Grill Kings. But there is a problem with that, […]

Almost June

HI! It’s Deirdre and i have the Conference Room and the Galley empty for a change. The Boomers won’t be back for a while and i can stretch out a little and get organized for the summer season. We are going to enjoy it here in North Fairfax. Temps in the upper seventies under brilliant […]

Groundhog Day in the SitRoom?

The meeting was not announced until eleven O’clock when the morning Daily was ready to go. This was sort o a dreamy production meeting since the dark gray clouds parted and the sun blazed through, brilliant in the blue. The decision to not hold the event in the Oval Office, where a more formal note […]