Hello everyone.

Well, we here at the Worldwide Headquarters got smacked around pretty good yesterday, last night and again this morning by Mother Nature, as she ripped through with the usual cocktail mix of spring hoopla. You know, hail, wind, rain, thunder, lighting, tornados, more rain, more wind. You get the picture.

We did hit a new milestone for water creep in the back of the house however, as water actually hit the edge of the back of the house, and was just inches from coming into the back door. I guess there is a first for everything. Not surprising after I heard we had something like five inches of rain in about an hour. Just nowhere for it to go when it’s coming down that hard, that fast.

And, as is usually the case with high winds and rain, we suffered from an ongoing series of power outages last night and again this morning.

So my apologies for being a bit “off-line” more than usual. But I don’t like to tempt fate with computer equipment when power is “browning” and or flickering off and on. I learned that lesson years ago when I fried a processor.

Having said that, I’ll be back shortly with some comments after I finish up going through the trusty email bag. I already know which story is going to be first, and I’m sure you do too. It’s the headline from a Financial Times story.

Three guesses and the first two don’t count.

Be back shortly.