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March 30, 2025 Vic Socotra

Situation Report: 30 March 2025

I did not make any measurable therapeutic progress today. It was almost a perfect 360-degree arc from last Tuesday’s launch for recovery into disaster Wednesday, followed by Triumphant Thursday and into a satisfied Friday festooned with pride but without new landmarks. The weekend was marked by gentle Yoga and a few sit-ups and the onset […]

March 28, 2025 Vic Socotra

Situation Report: 28 March 2025

It would be premature to wish I understood the icons on this app too insert some bursting arcs of triumph here. I also understand overestimating the consequences of one good day after a host of days filled the clouds of struggle. But it is Spring, darn it, and this is the peak day of the […]

March 27, 2025 Vic Socotra

Situation Report: 27 March 2025

A day in which some Lessons-Learned yesterday were applied and others fell, in the manner of the Depends briefs on the return run from the Nurse’s Station at the end of Wing 1 North after all this . You can dispense with the details or skip to the end to see whose end is in […]

March 26, 2025 Vic Socotra

Situation Report: 26 March 2015

Summary: Most miserable day of recovery. It was not a function of over-exertion in anything in particular but rather a failure to recognize the important and significant excercise in simply sitting upright in one degree of gravity. The stranded Astronaut recover on return to Earth are an extreme example of the recovery necessary after a […]

The Real Navy
March 23, 2025 Vic Socotra

The Real Navy

Gentle Readers, I beg your forgiveness for this short departure from traditional Daily Socotra format and braggadocio. If you take a short look at the image of USS Nimitz (CVN-68) above you will get a hint of her vastness. Forgive her the running rust on her elevator bays. That is a symptom of a different […]

March 22, 2025 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Spring from my Muse

I was out in the garden today – an absolutely gorgeous spring day in the Great Dismal Swamp… Everything is growing and budding and it is deliciously warm out! Welcome Spring The sun is out, the ground is warm, Day lilies pushing up, My Muse and I in the garden, At the door one of […]

The Vernal Equinox
March 20, 2025 Vic Socotra

The Vernal Equinox

Climb on board, Shipmates! The wait is done, the times are ripe and we can use a little joy! We were engaged in folding things up just as nature was opening them wide! You can see the buds full and ready to pop at the invitation of the Cross that stands tall on the west […]

What on Earth?
March 4, 2025 Vic Socotra

What on Earth?

There could be a clarion call this morning about the Big Speech scheduled to be issued from the White House later today. It is an unusual one, since it resembles a state of the Union in a fashion unseen in 130 years sonce a non-consecutive President addressed both Houses of Congress with margins of majoity […]

The Divergent Daily
March 2, 2025 Vic Socotra

The Divergent Daily

No we aren’t there, though we wish we were. That is Seoul with the gate to the old city wall in 1980 and the big pivot from pirate days to asking Jane to marry and build a family. She was tired of what she was doing and said “Yes,” and then the real magic of […]

The Fifteen Minute County: Digging Out
March 1, 2025 Vic Socotra

The Fifteen Minute County: Digging Out

Gentle Readers, you already got the Saturday stuff out of you systems, or at least the weekend parts that carried the digits about international crisis de jour with that little fellow in the smudged sweat clothes and the Holy Father apparent recovery from influenza. Accordingly, we will limit this to the apparently recovery of Creative […]