Well it wasn’t my idea but this week got totally crazy at work with calls at all hours of the night and dragging my nearly 60-year old body through workouts at the gym, blogging just didn’t make it, baby. So here a few things I plan on blogging about in the days ahead…

I’m hopeful about the Red Sox for 2016. If they do the five things I think they need to do I think they’ll be OK. What are they? You’ll just have to find out.

For a while there I was questioning being on the Donald Trump bandwagon, but his appearance today in Las Vegas put me squarely back on it. The excitement of this woman from Colombia is palpable and says exactly how The Donald differs from all the other traditional candidates out there. Can you imagine someone being like that for “low energy” Jeb Bush? Of course, you’ll never see this publicized because it doesn’t fit the mainstream media narrative that Trump hates all Hispanics. Notice how she’s waving an American flag??

What the Obama administration is doing (actually, not doing) in the face of Russian aggression is going to really hurt in the coming years. When Putin moves next in the Baltic states there’s gonna be hell to pay in a way that Fred Thompson couldn’t say better.

Boy, things have sure changed since the last time Tracey and I went cruising. It’s all pretty friggin’ sad, if you ask me. I remember one time Tracey and I rented a Jeep and went driving all over Cozumel island, just getting back within minutes of our ship sailing. Saw the most beautiful tropical storm brewing offshore. Knowing the way Mexico is these days there’s no way you’d ever get me to do that again!

The announcement by California congressman and John Boehner right-hand dude Kevin McCarthy shows just how deep the divisions are in the Republican Party. For once I’m in agreement with Mike Huckabee: it’s time to burn the GOP establishment down to the ground and start anew with a party that stands for something. I love my congressman Matt Salmon – one of the true good guys – but despise the mealy-mouthed, spineless weasels Arizona has in senators John McCain and Jeff Flake. I will be doing everything I can to make sure neither of them are re-elected to the Senate.

The President’s Cup has turned out once again to be a total snooze. Can we just put a stake in it and call it a good idea that didn’t turn out so good?

You know, I could almost believe this headline. That witch will do or say anything to become President.

Earlier this year it was George Harrison, this fall it’s Fleetwood Mac. There’s something about the fall season that gets me immersed in a favorite artist that just won’t let go. I guess I’m going to have to build a Fleetwood Mac collection now…