Author: Vic Socotra

Queen of the Tetons

Queen of the Tetons

You can see the complications in the production meeting this morning. They included the matter of cheese grits with herbs, later local whiskey deliveries, commemorative branding, the recent sledge-hammer robberies over by Point Chaud on Georgia Avenue across the River and why news about a Russian Kilo-class diesel submarine in the South China Sea was […]

Fifteen Minute County: Winter Weather Awareness Week

Fifteen Minute County: Winter Weather Awareness Week

Sorry this is a rush in what used to be morning but has failed in that. DeMille told us to get something out about the direct impact of the messaging in the new week just getting revved up for the three weeks to XMS after Turkey Day. There is a bunch of it and Splash […]

Fifteen Minute County: The Light Astern

Fifteen Minute County: The Light Astern

The week is already starting out with a roar, so DeMille told us to cool it a little bit on a Monday that is an actual First day of a new week in the last month. There had been some discussion about what pony to attempt to ride as the last new moon of this […]

Emojis of December

Emojis of December

So, the outbreak today started with those things in the circles above. They mix the political ones with the emoji of how Kristina felt after the scooter mishap. Plowing across the streams of conversation was the football thing that DeMille nixed insertion on the heading as “too provocative.” Stay with something safe like senior accidents […]

Fifteen Minute County: Saturday’s Monday

Fifteen Minute County: Saturday’s Monday

The Holiday-made Monday tempo collided with Saturday and there was dislocation in the air, some attempting to relax and others underway with the list of things that need to get done. Some Black Friday stuff to wrap up. A stop at the Credit Union in the chill set the right mood. Awake. Also the storm […]

FMC: Dim Sum at the Duck House

FMC: Dim Sum at the Duck House

Ambivalent morning. Lot of people getting up in crowded houses. Orion had parked his belt in the sky just over the summit of the west wing at Big Pink. The Beaver Moon was gone, finally, and the first question was whether those three bright orbs had familiar names, like Sirius. Or something different. These three […]

Thanksgiving Weather Report

Thanksgiving Weather Report

This was on the screen glowing on the device on the conference room. We assumed was set to “alert” to encourage some sort of response. This one was from DeMille and addressed to whoever was supposed to be listening for phones or alerts in the morning. Getting it sent involved an interaction between the Building […]

Mark’s Duck House

Mark’s Duck House

The President was speaking this morning, something with which we share challenges. The moments in fresh air, the door swinging open under the clouds and fresh breeze was livening, But it was laid on top of the Production Meeting and the collective urgency to be doing some other things that need to be settled before […]

The Fifteen Minute County

The Fifteen Minute County

There is a lot going on here, and DeMille said to draft something with apologies with a flashy graphic at the top and figure out how to track what appears to be noise about general war in Europe- the one with rockets and NATO or EU forces somehow entering the conflict in Ukraine with troops […]

Arrias: Strategic Catastrophe

Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder, mastermind of the Franco-Prussian War (among others), said that “Errors in tactics can be corrected on the next battle, but errors in strategy can only be corrected in the next war.” By strategy, he meant the overarching war plan of a nation. And his point was that if […]