Splash gently put aside the large stub of the Monte Cristo cigar he has been nursing through this edition of seasonal change. The tumult is in the air above the warming river. He slid the elegant ceramic ash tray closer to the center of the conference table. He had shrugged Winter’s recent premature retreat a […]

This morning had an adjunct to what passes for Holy Services here on the Potomac, where we have a couple of the former seniors who attend services at the cathedral next door overlooking the passage across the Potomac and into the Capitol of the Republic most of is served. There is also a tradition at […]

We were committed to watching the confirmation hearing to get a sense of who will be running things. Some of the Boomers laughed, since they content we don’t know who has been doing that for years. So things might get a little clearer with the daily list of give-aways to unlikely folks who may also […]

(Vapor, Splash and Vic preparing to provide water to Richmond). There was good news flying around that made everybody laugh. There’s a new child coming into this world just starting where many of us are getting ready to leave. So there was that and there was a lot to talk about. Each one could have […]

“Yike! The State Department Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub, or “R/FIMI,” is still open!” There was pandemonium near the Black Rifle Coffee urn in the Galley. When a quick Saturday production blow-through in the Socotra House Conference Room starts like that it means more work instead of our professional preference. The first question […]

DeMille had a great story about the three bars south of the HQ that got torched, but Legal said stay off for a minute until we know which of the victims groups were responsible for the attacks. Then, the Doc came in to talk to DeMille and left with a sort of determined expression as […]

James Woods is an actor of some repute and well regarded at this end of the building. He did not have a script for one of the most remarkable things shown on the wall of the Conference room at Socotra HQ last night. . He had a nice place in the path of the Ventura […]

It is cold out there. The incident on the Patio brought Security into the picture. Management has a contract with a local man who provides what the contract specifies a “roving patrol” in the hours of darkness, so there is no specific uniformed presence and there may be justification for additional measures, given the other […]

We are going to actually start the new year when the snow melts here on our version of Cape Guardafui on the Potomac. It is cold enough that what fell on top of what started Monday as ice is now powdery on top and likely to be with us a while. The Creative Section was […]

Well, sort of. It was a general consensus for the people who cycled through the conference table for some of those great small pastries that showed up and the core group that stuck around to run “merge notes” and mash the button. DeMille doesn’t understand platform distribution, so whatever Zoomer might be left gets stuck […]