The Longest Day…started with…

This is what we were going to go with this morning now that Miles is back from his temporary duty with the Blockade Task Group over at the Pentagon. As you know, there was a bunch of stuff going on, and if you have dealt with Persians down at the bazaar you understand why both sides had favorable terms on the terms they prefer.

So we are not going to deal with it, and Miles has a folder that Slick Nick and the boys over in Socotra House Legal have looked at. They approved the topics for Dailies that did not have full staff participation. Like yesterday.

The Longest Day.

The Boomers in our crowd remember the film that had the title, and it connected the year it came out- 1962- with the year it happened. 1944. It was a powerful piece of entertainment about a meteorologic event that made something a little more possible than it could have been. With a lot of risk.

Miles has some ideas on the hows-and-whys of what went on in Switzerland last night, and they might turn into some Dailies now that he is back. One thing we are sure about is that we are going to lose a little more than two minutes of daylight now that the Summer Solstice has passed.

The Interns produced a tidy explanation of the mechanics involved. One of the planet’s poles had just reached its closest inclination toward the sun, an event that arrives with clockwork regularity but still manages to surprise us.

Accordingly, it was time for Dierdre’s big Paella feast. She learned the recipe during her summer work trip to Seville and likes to stay in touch. She can’t write and cook though, so she asked Splash to contribute some words and get something on the wire before lunch.

Here they are. We are starting something with the Iranians that will not be wrapped up- if then- until the kids are getting ready to go back to school. So, what he did was tell one of the interns to log on to Clause or ChatGPT and see if the AI program has reviewed enough Socotra material to start duplicating it and automate the process.

We aren’t confident enough in the system to go fully machine-loaded yet. When we are, the machine will tell you. We need to figure out where to cut two minutes out of the schedule to accommodate lunch!

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