Category: DailySocotra

Socotra house Special Afternoon Edition

This is a special Socotra edition from an equally special week. You can see holly has arranged things in her usual spectacular manner and is fully prepared for whatever pops up in the 4th Floor Conference Room. You can see the carts are loaded in alternate packages of brown llquids, sausage rolls, pigs in blankets […]

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” […]

Sunday! Sunday!

There is a huge week coming up! Section leader miles is over at Army-Navy Country Club for the weekly Mimosa Meeting to talk about the seven ballistic missiles fired by helpless Iran over night. So that is still going on, and an incredible week is coming up. There is a significant anniversary day coming up […]

Special Note: D-Day , 2026

Special Note: Deirdre and Holly wee going to do a mushroom stroganoff recipe this morning with the magic trick at the end to be able to have veggie and beef versions without a great deal of effort. The problem with that was the screwworm infestation reported in Texas, which could mean real problems for the […]

The Middle Day of Three

(RADM Donald F. “Mac” Showers awarded the Bronze Star for his actions at Station HYPO, home of the Battle of Midway Codebreakers who enabled formation of the ambush that sank all four of the Imperial Navy’s major aircraft carriers. On this day in 1942). OK, OK, settle down out there. It’s a sunny afternoon and […]

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 […]

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, […]