Author: Vic Socotra

Understanding the People

It is Juneteenth today, the celebration of Emancipation Day, a Federal Day of Thanks for the ending of chattel slavery here in 1865. And whatever is going on in this world when something like it seems to have returned to these shores only a few years ago. It would be easy to lose track of […]

Memos of Agreement

The messaging about memos is swirling this morning. Some of us have been watching this for nearly a half century, so you can understand our feelings veer back and forth from optimism to pessimism. We do not trust the Iranians and do not know if enough of the old regime has been eradicated to change […]

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 […]