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February 25, 2023 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Detour, Day 16

Editor’s Note: Land warfare in Europe is in progress. There is a Chinese proposal to talk about peace on the table unacceptable to two of the participants. In response to tension, our Navy has eliminated fitness standards. The ground in Ukraine is thawing, making movement a challenge for the next few weeks. The crisis grinds […]

February 24, 2023 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Detour, Day 15

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 15 To each, his own. Steve wanted another southern slice of the PCH, while I wanted to revisit some old haunts on the peninsula and the new to me Monterey Aquarium. The aquarium’s 35 foot tall, swaying kelp beds were entrancing. The geriatric otters (>14 years old) in residence […]

February 24, 2023 Vic Socotra

Weather Report: World Realignment

It is a week featuring the exercise of power in this Vale of Tears. There is the anniversary of the land war in Europe, of course. That brings back recollections of two global conflicts, augmented by our own wars in MittleEurope. This week, China’s President Xi visited Moscow to assure Mr. Putin of his support […]

February 23, 2023 Vic Socotra

Z-Grams

Admiral Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt was in the middle of a change in an old institution that in it’s time had some of the same reverberations we are experiencing today. The impact was profound on those who had served the old system as the one today. The Professional Organization to which some of us still belong […]

February 23, 2023 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Detour Day 14

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 14 Point Lobos A leisurely breakfast followed by a visit to base housing to look at the late 1970s townhome residence I had when I studied here for my graduate degree and wrote a thesis on the Arpanet. Point Lobos was the sole item on the agenda. No words […]

February 23, 2023 Vic Socotra

Letter to the Editor: Z-Grams

Subject: Re: Z-Grams Thanks for these memories Vic …… only had some 7 yrs in when this went down in 1970 and it was way above Lt. concerns ….. but interesting, and led to a beard…… One point of clarity however re …. ‘His service in Vietnam had included adapting a fighting force from a […]

February 22, 2023 Vic Socotra

Ashes, Ashes…

We looked around the writer’s huddle on the Balcony with rain coming in. We have a crowd that has lived in multiple states, including the urban and rural areas of several. Both categories have commonality, though some of that seems to have become abraded in recent times. There is some discussion about what Rocket saw […]

February 22, 2023 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Detour, Day 13

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 13 “G*# D+^ M^%#er#<-*ing SOB!!” -Evelyn at Salinas Harley Davidson We were going to the Salinas Harley dealer to get a new battery after Steve rope-towed me and my two cylindered arrow to life and headed east to the San Fernando Valley. Just like he did after dinner last […]

February 21, 2023 Vic Socotra

Long Ago & Far Away

There is a lot going on, isn’t there? The President of the United States visited a town that used to be spelled “Kiev.” A call presumably was made to notify Russia that any interference with the visit would constitute an act of war on their part, and maybe justify a nuclear response. Several of us […]

February 21, 2023 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Detour Day 12

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 12 “Las Vegas was ruined when the corporations took over from the mafia. Everything’s now too expensive. They’re overwhelmed by the drug trade and gang related crime and shootings,” -ALA MAR’s resident manager (I share his feelings for Vegas’s early 70s version) A flight of pelicans headed south to […]

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