Hard to believe after four weeks I’m still sick. It’s hard to do just about anything, let along blogging, so I figure I’d just use this post to let everyone know I’m still around. I’ve finally got some antibiotics being pumped into me, and I’ve got a prescription-strength cough suppressant / expectorant that I’m waiting patiently to have some meaningful impact. But a few comments that I think are worth tossing out there.

…so I’m hooked on the Doc Ford series of novels by Randy Wayne White. I had picked up his book “Cuba Straits” at the airport on my way back from Massachusetts in October. I’m normally not one for fiction, but facing a six-hour flight and seeing not much else in the way of reading material I decided to take a chance and found I actually enjoyed it. I just finished “The Man Who Invented Florida” and found it equally enjoyable. White’s series revolves around a group of main characters based in the Sanibel Island section of southwest Florida, which is tropical enough for me. He’s a fun author to read and I’ll probably end up getting all the books in due time.

While dead in bed during my stay at the Wynn Las Vegas, I had a chance to watch some Grapefruit League and MLB Network coverage, and I’m here to tell you the New York Yankees are going to surprise a lot of folks this year. They have a ton of young talent, and while I’m no Yankees fan by any stretch of the imagination, you have to respect talent.

So it’s true: the 2016 presidential election was hacked after all. It’s just that it wasn’t by the Russians, as the Democrats have been pushing from day one, but by the Obama administration. If what President Trump is accusing the Obama administration of is true – and I have to believe he wouldn’t be making such serious accusations if he didn’t have some measure of factual evidence to rely upon – then Obama administration folks at the highest levels have some ‘splainin’ to do. It certainly paints that meeting between Obama AG Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in whole different light..