(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 […]

We are starting the second week of Advent, and we hope you can help us remember it is no longer “Hope,” but the “Peace” that we can bring to our affairs on this small part of this Earth. Accordingly, we asked some of the Zoomers to do a short piece on where we live. The […]

(West Coast Guy, the Lovely Bea, and the indomitable Admiral Mac Showers in 2012, the year everything changed. The youngsters of World War II began their exit, and in the over the next few years they were all gone from this earth and on to others. We passed Arizona’s monument on the ferry each day […]

We hate to start a weekend with something technical, but we are attempting to understand the source of some of the strange stuff going on in news and messaging last week. We failed due to holiday festivities and because the shores along the vast torrent of cash is inconceivable to us ordinary citizens. And some […]

At 18:25 tonight, the sky over Fairfax County- and yours- pulled a stunt. The full moon cleared the rooftops in a hard white glare, bright enough to bleach the contrails that had been drifting east all afternoon. By chance — perfect, impossible chance — they crossed right over the moon, forming a giant asterisk in […]