Not that anyone is terribly surprised that former President Barack Obama has been sighted here at Christmas time — the Obamas usually spent Christmas in Hawaii, even before his election.

There were sundry appearances to boogie boarders and to Christmas carolers. And Obama’s re-emergence also recently included a chatty interview for the BBC, conducted by Prince Harry, with whom he and his wife have collaborated on charity.

It looks as if the post-presidential Shy Barack period is over. Considering that George W. Bush stayed out of the limelight for years, that was pretty brief.

There’s a fortune in those diabetes test strips

Who knew? Evidently, there’s a black market for diabetes test strips.

That’s but one takeaway from Wednesday’s grand jury indictment of a former Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center employee for stealing nearly $700,000 worth of the test strips. The WCCHC pharmacy technician was indicted for stealing 2,346 cases of test strips and selling them to a supplier, who then sold them on the Las Vegas black market.

That’s a lot of test strips. But given the rise in diabetes — and its related skyrocketing costs — perhaps it’s not such an odd commodity after all.