Author: Vic Socotra

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 […]

Deirdre’s Buttered Afternoon Noodles

Maybe I should have called this the Galley Surprise, since despite all the planning, sometimes thigs occur that disrupts the careful planning. Like: “The Russians and Ukrainians are lobbing drones at each other. Some of them are going off-course and hitting targets in places like Romania. That nation has been a full member of NATO […]

Welcome Home, Carrier Strike Group 12!

SECWAR Hegseth was down in Norfolk yesterday to meet the 5,000 members of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Strike Group that returned yesterday, completing a record-breaking 326-day deployment. The group conducted successful combat operations in two continents and four crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. That makes it sort of personal, since one of our […]

Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo

Morning, Gang! What a dynamite Saturday! Skies are brilliant blue and the sun a blazing bright orb that has slowly inched past the lower right corner of the giant plate glass windows of the 4th Floor Conference Room at the Trillium office/residential/retail complex. We had the company national conference yesterday that started things rolling in […]