t back to my office and ordered a dozen clip-on bow ties. If a tie was required at all times, it would be one I could put on in seconds and forget about. I never wore a long tie again. Only later did I notice the line running backward. My grandfather, in his customary bow […]

There was a certain pensive air that wafted through the Holiday Spirit we are attempting to festoon around the conference room. The big flat-screen at the north end of the Conference Room was featuring that 5-ft-8-inch stocky-built alleged murderer from Brown University, plus another run through on the killings in Sydney, Australia at the Bondi […]

Rocket was holding a glowing image of the horrific events at Bondi Beach at the South End of the conference table. Splash sat across from him with his iPad flat, glowing upward with a hazy image of a man in dark clothing walking around the corner at Brown College in Rhode island. Holly had a […]

(4th Floor Elf Staffers mixed it up with Santa Claus this morning about the Comet Thing. The kids thought the arrival of an interstellar visitor to the solar system might mean an alien invasion to coincide with Christmas. The Boomers sighed at the notion of a trajectory required for something that big to have traveled […]

It was a tough decision at Socotra House this morning about The Daily. Fun feature or catastrophic chaos coverage? The 15 Minute County project has a direct relationship to news from across the River about elimination of restrictions on car sales and permitted designs. It fits with the project we are working on about the […]

Here is what our snow expert Valentina had this morning: Miles had to laugh. There was a nice transitional graphic from the Millennial group who are part of the advance group who lived in Fairfax with their folks. They had to drive the roads out there in all sorts of conditions, so you can imagine […]

This was a tough morning here, never mind anything closer to Ann Arbor. It is a dramatic change in som eo fht eunderpinnings for the Boomers. Splash laughed, since he has always appreciated the Buckeyes and enjoyed the rise he got each November out of Vic who wore his maize and blue proudly. Until Covid. […]

There is a bunch of stuff going on here in Fairfax and Arlington Counties where Socotra House has two small campus areas. There is talk a Casino might be in the planning stages out in Fairfax where the Boomers are concentrated due to their need for better medical care and closer VABC outlets. You can […]

(Valentina Grizodubova’s bust in Moscow, 1998). Shipmate Vic met Valentina in 1998, just five years after her passing in 1993. None of us knew her then. Vic brought her up since he had been visiting Admiral of the Fleet Sergei Gorshkov back in 1998. He had wanted to do that since he had opposed the […]