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Friday, November 8, 2013

November 8, 2013

The confusion continues at GOOGLE+ land. Splitting errands to get home by sundown; too many questions, no answers; Brad is going on a diet;

Thursday, November 7, 2013

I hope this works:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Futurepast1000

It did...I think! Your link to great music from the past, present and future.

Another New Beginning!

11/7/2013: well, the era of YouTube is on hold, for a period of time...the good news is that I have recovered my BLOG!, I will add pages that I created on my laptop.
Have a great day.
Mike W. & Brad

Saturday, November 13, 2010

…11/4–10: no goal should be out of one’s reach

52º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two students admit bringing an unloaded gun to Highland High School; a man groped a female student’s breast at a local school; teen tried to poison her father’s girlfriend; Heather Wilson will head Suzanna Martinez’s transition team;
Try working on CTI charges; a day of dumb errors, crazy spreadsheets, and printer problems; yesterday, had to open door for JoAnn, whose badge was in her truck;
Wet in: Philly, Charlotte, Tampa, Boston, DC, Pittsburgh, ATL, New Orleans, Orlando, Buffalo, NYC, Providence, Philly, Miami, Baltimore, JAX, Tallahassee & Roanoke; rain along parts of I-81, I-87 & I-95; Tomas heads for Haiti, a country with one million living in camps, plus battling a cholera outbreak; the storm will become a hurricane again: currently its winds are 50 mph winds, and moving NNW at 7 mph; temps from the 30s to the 90s;
Many minor quakes have been felt in CA during recent weeks; thirty tons of marijuana seized at the MX/CA border, near San Diego; [R] want to repeal the Obama health plan; the DOW ended up; fired FL HOSP worker fired gunshots, then barricaded himself in the one of the building’s offices, far from the patients; jobless claims on the rise, the man finally killed himself; Los Angeles children hospitalized after eating chocolate; IA judges who allowed same–sex to be performed in that state have been ousted from their positions;
Discovery launch may be delayed due to weather; one of the Chilean miners who were trapped will run in th
e NYC Marathon; all A380 ‘jumbo jets’ have been grounded, after engine problems resulted in debris falling from the plane during one flight; more ash erupting from Indonesian volcano; oil is $86.48 per barrel; gold is $1,380.80 an ounce;

…11/5–10: positive life
46º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; for now, no sports arena in downtown ABQ; counterfeit money being distributed in Las Cruces; how to overcome the language barrier on YouTube; Suzanna Martinez does not want illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses; man found with a syringe that had traces of heroin;
Empty AM R/R; left at noon, lunch at Saggio’s; home by 4:30P; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Portland [ME], Norfolk, Detroit, Nashville, IMDY, Seattle, Hartford, Buffalo, Philly, Syracuse & Pittsburgh; damp along areas of I-40 & I-70; the E Coast ‘deep freeze’; some snow in the NC MTN; Hurricane Tomas is approaching Haiti with 80 mph winds, moving NE at 9 mph; the tent cities will not withstand the rain & strong winds, so many are being told to evacuate those shelters; the threat of floods & mudslides could worsen that country’s cholera epidemic; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
One in seven men is molested as a child; the DOW ended up; OR couple gave condoms, instead of Halloween candy; PA man tried to steal a pair of woman’s high heels from a shoe store; will Nancy Pelosi be the new minority leader in the House; parents opposed young boy who dressed as a girl for Halloween; E Coli found in Gouda cheese; America is open for business; the ‘7 – 11’ Slurpee Summit slated for DC; the private sector is hiring, with four consecutive month of 100K new jobs created each month; ‘virtual currency’ being focused for new & existing mortgages, to stimulate the economy; Jill Clayburgh has died at the age of 66;
The space shuttle Discovery will try again to launch on its final mission; planes crashes in both Cuba & PAK killed all onboard; volcanic eruption has killed 100 people; Canadian couple donated most of their $11 million lottery winnings to charity; ‘design issue’ caused the engine problem on the A380 jetliners; oil is $86.85 per barrel; gold is $1,397.70 an ounce;

…11/6–10: the reality of reality
45º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…along with its first Female & Hispanic GOV, NM will also have its first ‘first gen
tleman’; should tax incentives be given to the film industry, which does provide jobs to NM residents, and money into our economy; NM reports its first W Nile Virus death; some ‘Red Light Cameras’ will be turned on in the Duke City; Scandinavian Festival in the Duke City; a bull died during surgery at the Rio Grande Zoo; Espanola workers accused of stealing nearly $100K from that city; ‘Fair Game’, the life story of Valerie Plame, an exposed CIA agent, had its film debut this weekend: she now lives in NM with her husband; The Beach is 100% leased until 2011; $100K given to the NM School for the Deaf; ABQ is facing a $66 million shortfall;
Tea Party having a negative impact on [R] agenda in Congress; time for most of the US to save time; time for I-Phones to reset the alarm clock function more oil spill damage appearing in the Gulf of MX; CA grows marijuana in ‘the emerald triangle’: it was the first state to legalize medical use of the drug;
More volcanic ash is landing on Indonesian cities; has the era of the A380 ended before it took off from the ground; cyber drugs distributed on the Internet, via sound;

…11/7–10: peace, and silence
47º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…propane tanks fell off a trailer on I-40 near Clines Corner, which resulted in explosions: no one was injured, even with a semi running over one of the containers; fatal car crash in Dona Ana CNTY; too much water was used by ABQ residents during October; Ski Santa Fe will hold a job fair this Friday; Adult Film Festival, or ‘Pornotopia’, will not be held in the D
uke City this year, which means lost revenue; newest US Marshall in NM is a two year old canine, who can detect firearms & bombs; SWAT situation in Cuba, man threatening to harm his two children; should ABQ school district be split in two; fourteen Red Light Cameras will be turned on again in ABQ, their sole purpose is catch people who drive through intersections when they should have stopped; female Luna CNTY inmate did not return to jail after being on furlough;
Man carjacks a limo during a Boston wedding ceremony; plane from New Orleans to Milwaukee made an emergency landing where smoke & a foul odor was detected on the cabin of the plane; Obama says a ‘midcourse correction’ has to be made; the new NATL pastime is gazing into a computer monitor, or IPhone; suspicious packages on CA train; will the [R] undo Obama’s health care plan;
Largest church in the world opens in Spain; Hurricane Tomas leaves behind many cities in Haiti under water, increasing the threat of cholera; PAK: the most dangerous nation in the world;

…11/8–10: clear future
42º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; teen shot & killed in front of his NE APT complex; during the weekend, there were two mobile home fires in Edgewood; two inmates escaped from N NM jail, one has been captured; this weekend, a man robbed the Grants State Bank; roadwork on Lead & Coal will begin this week; Avenue Cesar Chavez under I-25 is a dangerous intersection; two teens hit by a car in SE ABQ;
For the first time since Nov., 2009, UNM football team had their first victory this past Saturday, winning by a score of 34–31; sprinkler system turned on at UNM just as I was walking past them; many bikers on AM R/R;
Wet in: Boston, Hartford, NYC, Providence, Burlington [VT], Seattle, Los Angeles, SLC, Flagstaff, Idaho Falls, Billings, ‘the’ Las Vegas, Albany & Syracuse; snow fell in WV & VA; Tomas struck Puerto Rico during the wee
kend; rain & snow along sections of I-90 & I-95; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
Tow truck revenge; the DOW ended down; transformer explosion shuts down nuclear power plant near NYC; in GA, random, male party guest got beaten to death; is our PRES ‘out of touch’ with the rest of the country, or have the country’s problems overwhelmed him; OH bartender left a bag of money on the roof of his car, which contained $3,600 in tips…two men found the money, and returned the cash to its rightful owner; PM mail problems on AOL; 288K eggs being recalled; George Bush the Son will no longer be involved in politics;
Erupting Indonesian volcano may force Obama to change his travel plans; US PRES said there is a ‘defining partnership’ with India; oil leaks found in A380 engines; Obama danced in India; oil is $86.85 per barrel; gold is $1,405.00 an ounce; $2 million jeweled Monopoly game board; 1.2 billion people live in India; the most wanted al Qaeda, its ‘spiritual leader’, was born in NM, and resides across Yemen;

…11/9–10: all you need is light
47º in ABQ; 33% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ man used a pumpkin to stop a man who broke into his home; too many people were packed into a strip mall rave party; teen killed in car crash on I-25 near Santa Fe; San Juan CNTY Detention CTR inmate fatally hanged himself by using a bed sheet; cemetery vandalism in Loving; semi crashed on I-25, near Lead, ‘cross promoting’ businesses to help boost the earnings of two businesses; spilling sour cream onto the interstate;
More infectious Disease charges to enter; problems with TES & PowerChart, through the entire day; plus a leaky pen;
Wet in: Boston, Billings, Grand Junction, Cape Cod, Hartford, Providence, Albany, Springfield [MA], & Seattle; damp along sections of I-90 & I-95; very warm in the Great Plains; winter storm caused power outages across New England;9olfreezing fog in MI; temps from the 40s to the 70s;
Falling tree in ME nearly struck a young boy; PRES Bush, the Son, never had an alcoholic drink while in the White House; airport security vs. privacy invasion vs. ‘personal space’; the 800K gallon oil cleanup in MI is completed; cruise ship was adrift, and on fire, off the CA coast, near San Diego; five child
ren killed in FL house fire; 145 million YouTube hits of Eminem’s latest video; Charleston, SC has been voted the friendliest city in the US; the DOW ended down; FL woman wanted to sell an eight week old son for $30K; what was the mystery craft that appeared over S CA skies, and who launched it: so far, the military has no clue; pilot unions are against the full body scanners: there are over 300 of them, in over 60 airports;
Obama made it to Indonesia; Israel will build 1,300 new homes in Jerusalem; oil is $87.02 per barrel; gold is $1,410.10 an ounce;

…11/10–10: the best of anything
30º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Dental & Chiro visits; we know a real porn star;
NM doctor denied a haircut while visiting VT because he was Afro-American; should NM increase its vehicle excise tax; teens vandalized red-tagged houses in the Duke City; the new NM GOV toured the Round House in Santa Fe, vowing for a balanced budget; NM is getting stimulus money to revitalize rundown neighborhoods; NATL bullying forum being held at Rio Rancho school;
UNM championship golf course needs $4 million in repairs; we are in Code Purple;
Wet in: Boston, DC, Bismarck, SLC, Eugene [OR], the Twin Cities, Boise & Providence; showers along some parts of I-95; ABQ forecast mentioned on the Weather Channel; early snow for parts of CO; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
Was it an amateur rocket, or an optical illusion that was spotted in the S CA skies: the Pentagon has decided that it was a plane; the ‘cruise ship to hell’: the Carnival ‘Splendor’, whose engine caught on fire, stranded about 5K people, who had no A/C, food, water or power; the DOW ended up; E-mail and phone call placed FL school on lockdown; the 787 Dreamliner made an emergency landing in TX; man lost weight by eating just Twinkies; the US is ‘committed to human progress’; packs of cigarettes will display pictures of cancer smokers, and victims;
More planes with A380 engines are grounded after excessive oil found around the engines; more Catholic churches & neighborhoods attacked in Baghdad; Obama visits S Korea; oil is $87.60 per barrel; gold is $1,399.30 an ounce;

…11/11–10: universal harmony
33º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; shorter school year proposed to help balance the ABQ school budget; water main break along Bridge ST; 14,500 children in ABQ are homeless; the mysterious debt collection call late last night; chances for snow in N NM; corrections officer may have killed himself after being involved in a bank robbery; sewer line collapsed along Menaul; four young adults involved in Santa Fe crash, all hospitalized, alcohol may have caused that accident; saw Jean, who is quitting APS; NM woman was aboard the ‘cruise ship to hell’; homeless people ‘live’ along the Bosque; Brad made Beef Stroganoff;
MGMT decides that no procedures should change; passed by some schools that were open on this holiday; no CTI or PICU Admits; Channel 4 on KOAT Hill; we are in Code Purple;
Wet in: Dallas, N Platte, Denver, Seattle, Farmington [NM], Tulsa, OKC, KC, Wichita, Chicago & Amarillo; rainy conditions along sections of I-35 & I-40; fog in New Orleans & Baton Rouge, plus across MI; temps from the 30s to the 80s;
Tugs pulling the stranded ‘Splendor’ ocean liner back to San Diego; OH smokestack collapsed in the wrong direction during a demolition; for the first time in its history, Sears will open on Thanksgiving Day; ADHD cases in children are increasing; the end of phone books; the DOW ended down; US GOVT wants to slower increase the retirement age; MS coached accused of whipping his players; by the end of the day, the cruise line passengers were back on land; gay kissing moment in ‘Modern Family’; this is the fifth Carnival cruise ship to catch on fire; virtual border fence is an $850 million failure, and producing blurred visions; IN strip mall went up in flames; wild turkeys invade NY town; across the globe, we have ‘limited American influence’; OH teacher fired after being caught asleep in a classroom;
Cracks found in the tanks of the Space Shuttle Discovery, further delaying its launch; Obama will be attending the G-20 Summit; 605K Nissans recalled; is China manipulating currency; oil is $87.81 an ounce; gold is $1,398.80 an ounce;

…11/12–10: the key to make changes to change
34º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; officer involved shooting in SE ABQ; fourteen Red Light Cameras will be tur
ned on again in the Duke City; new solar array for Rio Rancho school; Rio Rancho school buses may get billboards;
Empty AM R/R; left at noon, ate at Saggio’s; missing woman found dead in a UNM parking lot;
Wet in: Green Bay, Lubbock, Sioux Falls, Yellowstone, KC, OKC, Amarillo, Des Moines, the Twin Cities; Omaha, Wichita, Seattle & Dallas; rainy along parts of I-35;
Custard Pie Festival & Fight to beat the world’s record, and it’s all for charity; Cleveland baseball stadium will be transformed into a winter festival park; cruise ship was escorted by naval ships back to CA; play Monopoly on your IPhone; the Harry Potter sport has become a reality, and is ‘sweeping’ the nation; the ‘virtual border fence’ cannot tell the difference between cars or citizens; gay soldiers are not receiving the same amount of discharge pay as other military members; people on cruises are checked for any outstanding warrants; Supreme Court upholds the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy; the DOW ended down; WI house explodes shortly after repairs had been made to the structure;
The 69 year old DJ plays current music; Obama attending the Asian Pacific Summit with twenty one of the world’s wealthiest nations; oil is $84.88 a barrel; gold is $1,365.50 an ounce; man in Japan killed him
self while on the Internet;

…11/13–10: air particles
33º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…freeze warnings from Alamogordo to Hobbs; NM State Police officer found his wife in another man’s vehicle, accused of stalking her, since they are in the process of getting a divorce; ABQ Ride may offer more bus routes to Rio Rancho next year, plus extend the hours of the current routes in ABQ; three men accused of branding a swastika on the arm of a disabled Native American; San Juan CNTY crash between a car, and a cement truck; the Valles Caldera provides both scenic tours, and comfortable lodgings; new NM GOV says there could be cuts in education funds, and wants to eliminate the ‘bloated bureaucracy’ ;
USPS reported an $8.5 billion loss last year; INTEL has had a very good year; AZ may allow the use of medical marijuana; people with severe acne problems are more likely to commit suicide; another marijuana bust at the TX/MX border;
A 5.6 earthquake shook the Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico; more Catholics are considering cremation; the economic summit is being held in Yokohama, Japan;

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

…10/26–10: hopes, and dreams

35º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; showers at The Beach during yesterday PM; eight year old Roswell boy shot himself with a handmade gun; mining resumes in SW NM; local schools were on lockdown yesterday; ABQ APT complex has not turned on the heat yet; Duke City hearing aid company suddenly shut down its operations;
And so, it continues; will UNM get a liquor license; no PSUP Admits; we are in Code Purple;
Wet in: Detroit, Des Moines, Seattle, INDY, Chicago, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities; Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nashville, Tulsa, Billings, Omaha, Olympia & Raleigh; blizzard warnings in N Dakota; Richard is now a TD; bad weather along sections of I-7
7 & I-94; CO snowstorm; chance of twisters across IL; lowest barometric pressure in MN history may occur today; a ‘Midwest cyclone’ or ‘land hurricane’, temps from the 40s to the 80s;
‘Zombie invasions’ across the US today; NC father & son found shot to death in their own home; to prevent being bullied, CT mother sent her son to school with a BB gun, and a knife; four day old FL baby killed by family‘s pit bull terrier; about $1 billion has been spent on political ads; more Americans are joining al Qaeda; the DOW ended slightly up; high energy alcohol drink; FORD reported a profit for the sixth quarter in a row, more big trucks are being built;
Some BMW models have sudden slowdown problems; Iran is adding fuel to its nuclear reactor plant; Madonna opening fitness centers around the world; oil is $82.35 per barrel; gold is $1,332.50 an ounce; fifteen people killed by erupting volcano in Indonesia;


…10/27–10: cosmic music
46º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Bernalillo CNTY battles bullying; who is a responsible for medical coverage if a baseball strikes a person watching an Isotopes game; more retailers are needed in the S Valley, and SW ABQ; Brad made Applesauce Nut Bread; suspicious chemicals found in Duke City home; policy changes will prevent nepotism in Bernalillo CNTY departments;
So many charges, so little time; we remain in Code Purple;
Wet in: ATL, Charlotte, DC, Baltimore, NYC, Philly, Twin Cities, Richmond, Boston, Minot, Fargo, Bismarck, Roanoke & New Orleans; damp weather conditions along sections of I-20, I-81, I-85, I-94 & I-95; strong winds in the N Plains; temps from the 30s to the 90s;
Power outage in WY during the past w
eekend caused command disruption between fifty nuclear missiles, and their launch control CTR; bedbug epidemic in NYC; the DOW ended down; X-ray revealed 31 nails in a dog’s stomach; a teacher, some students, China & Iran hacked into the new computerized voting system used by DC; man accused of targeting, planned to place explosives at four DC METRO stops;
Tsunamis also struck Indonesia; Hillary Clinton tours SE Asia; the Aston Martin used in the early James Bond movies will be auctioned, with an asking price of $3 million, it sold for $4.1 million; Osama bin Laden has issued a threat against France; oil is $80.82 a barrel; gold is $1,322.60 an ounce; ship burning off the coast of England;

…10/28–10: community caring
32º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; HAZMAT situation ongoing in the NE Heights, unlabeled canisters containing UNK chemicals; MDC guard accused of having sex with an inmate; Brad prepared a Mushroom Terrine; citing safety reasons, the Jemez Pueblo will not hold Halloween festivities; fewer lanes on Central between Olde Towne & Downtown; Carlsbad native plays for the San Fran Giants, one of the teams in the World Series;
Specialist cannot remember who ask
ed him to perform a consultation; we remain in Code Purple; it was a very busy, very productive day; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: Columbia [SC], Montgomery [AL], Savannah, New Orleans, Portland [OR], Redding [CA], Mobile, Pensacola, Norfolk, San Fran, Seattle & Tallahassee; rainy along some sections of I-10 & I-90; tornado spotted in Richmond, VA; high winds caused a tower to collapse at Notre Dame, killing a twenty year old student; frost & freeze warnings across the Great Plains; several twisted struck NC; ten states reported wind gusts of 80 mph; temps from the 30s to the 90s;
PTSD linked to hyperactivity; toy lanterns being recalled, they could overheat; James MacArthur has died at the age of 72; one police officer, and two people were killed during a San Diego shootout; the DOW ended down; some boxes of Raisinets may contain peanuts; some lollipops contain pieces of metal; new NY–NJ tunnel project halted; AR school official wrote online ‘I like it when gays die’;
Drug cartel suspected in fifteen deaths at a MX car wash; the rescued Chilean miners will meet PRES Obama; oil is $81.94 per barr
el; gold is $1,342.50 an ounce;

…10/29–10: the culture of class
40º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Santa Fe robbery caught on security camera; chemicals determined to be ‘legal’ in NE ABQ home; suspected voter registration tampering in Las Cruces; Jemez ban on Halloween makes NATL news; fatal crash at Carlisle & Gibson, a Bernalillo CNTY police officer was killed in the accident;
Left at 3P, went to Saggio’s with Brad; closure at work; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Syracuse, Cleveland, Miami, Erie, San Fran, Buffalo, Sacramento, Spokane and Portland [OR]; rainy along areas of I-5, I-90 & I-95; Chattanooga reported a twister struck that town; TS Shary has 40 mph winds, heading NW at 18 mph; temps from the 40s to the 90s;
BP knew the cement was not holding after the oil spill occurred; there is a ‘Sleepy Hollow’, in NY; more thorough airport body searches, scans and ‘X-rated’ pat downs; man shot three people at a Reno, NV Wal-Mart; the DOW ended up; using a pregnant woman’s urine to lose weight; OH mother admitted allowing her three young children to smoke marijuana; low cabin pressure revealed a 1’ x 2’ hole found in an American Airlines jet bound to Boston from Miami; only some packages are screened or scanned on cargo planes; ‘Black Friday’, one month earlier than in past years; an American al Qaeda member is from NM;
Asian volcano is erupting, belching ash; space travel could be good a boost for both science & medicine: thousands have made down payments for the low orbit space flights; several police officers were killed during a MX shootout; explosives were found inside toner cartridges on cargo plane bound from Yemen, a country with a ‘weak’ GOVT, to Chicago; oil is $81.10 per barrel; gold is $1,357.60 an ounce;

…10/30–10: look ahead
47º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…stabbing at the Walgreen’s at Coors & Central; Rio Rancho will get Red Light Cameras; proposed fire station at I-25 & Gibson, near the new UNM dorms; seventy year old NM man may lose his housing subsidy because he uses medical marijuana; during the late PM, we took a walk through Olde Towne; two hospitals are planned for Rio Rancho, these project will bring at least 900 jobs to that county;
More Lipitor recalled; El Camino Real Trail dedicated today; high alcohol, high caffeine is being called ‘blackout in a can’, one b
ottle is equivalent to binge drinking; children with psoriasis are often bullied; teens are not attracted to the Tea Party;
Now, it is Hurricane Shary, and Tropical Storm Tomas;

…10/31–10: peaceful, polite policies
49º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…Dia de Los Muertos, or, Day of the Dead; more security at Rio Rancho Middle School; 18% vacant office space in ABQ, the largest number ever reported, no new structures will be built for business in the Duke City during the next year; multi-vehicle crash this AM along I-25N & Tramway: no serious injuries, but a police car was also involved in the accident; today, Santa Ana Pueblo held a Special Olympics Bowling Tournament; sex offenders cannot have Halloween decorations on their homes;
AIDS protestors interrupt Obama speech in CT; Chicago synagogue targeted, a place of worship which was frequented by Jews & gays;
Two passenger planes from Dubai to Chicago were found to be carrying explosives, unsure if all the bombs have been located; Brazil has its first female PRES; Hurricane Tomas struck the E Caribbean islands; female suspect arrested in Yemen terrorist threats against the US, but she was released, these bombs could be detonated by the touch of a cell phone: some may already be in the America; 90% of all packages coming from overseas are not scanned; suicide bomber struck Istanbul; the Shuttle Discovery is tentatively set to launch this Wednesday, it last flight: one of its passengers is a ‘robonaut’;

…11/1–10: the ability to care
46º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; another officer involved shooting in ABQ; Denish went trick or treating with her grandchildren; NM Christmas tree permits are now available for $5; Brad made Butternut Squash Soup; more people in NM are voting in this election than they did in 2006; Chinese massage parlo
rs in the NE Heights & W End are actually houses of prostitution; more money for NM small businesses; the ceiling of an APT at Tenth & Coal collapsed;
Hell Week, Day; Lobos football team lost again; got rid of the file cabinet, but the new phone does not work; ‘Open House’ at The Pit, showing off its $60 million renovation; Jackie gave us Halloween bags filled with candy;
Wet in: Houston, Shreveport, Lake Charles, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans & Portland [OR]; MA AM frost warnings; rain along sections of I-10; snow in N NY & N ME; Tomas heading towards Haiti with 50 mph winds, moving W at 14 mph; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
200K people attended the Stewart/Colbert rally in our nation’s capital; DC Marathon was held this past weekend; the First Family handed out Halloween candy to children; teen fatally shot after he egged a Mercedes in ATL; 369K bottles of Lipitor have been recalled; the DOW ended up; alcohol, the legal, but deadly ‘drug’; who do voters dislike the least;
Bombs in Baghdad target Cat
holic Churches; Indonesian volcano erupted yesterday; oil is $83.05 per barrel; gold is $1,350.60 an ounce; China begins its nationwide census;

…11/2–10: autumn dreams
43º in ABQ 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM will have a female GOV, and the Navajo Nation may have a female leader;
Hell Week, Day Two; successful, and stressful;
Wet in: Birmingham [AL], Houston, Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Dallas, Mobile and San Antonio; rain along sections of I-10; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
[R] do better in inclement weather; Tomas has 50 mph winds, moving W at 12 mph, and heading towards Haiti;
BP is rejecting more compensation claims, detecting more fraudulent expenses; San Fran Giants won the World Series; daily exercise can help prevent the common cold; $3.5 billion has been spent on ads for these crucial midterm elections; woman who eat peanuts during pregnancy are more likely to have children who are allergic to this food product; Los Angeles gang members shot & killed a five year old boy; Oprah ‘roughing it’ in Yosemite NATL Park; voters say the country still has economic problems, and the public is losing faith in Obama;
Swimmers vs. ship in the English Channel; Indonesia’s erupting volcano is disrupting INTI flights; terrorists testing attacks by using FedEx planes, and its tracking systems to locate packages heading to America; ten year old girl in Spain has given birth; baby fell eight stories from a Paris APT house, and survived by bouncing off an awning; oil is $82.95 per barrel; gold is $1,356.90 an ounce; giant sinkhole in Germany;

…11/3–10: save the world, be a friend
45º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Martinez, will be the first female Hispanic GOV; Heinrich, Lujan, Pearce, King & Balderas were victorious; the Navajo Nation will not have a female PRES;
Hell Week, Day 2.5;
Wet in: New Orleans, Dallas, Miami, Knoxville, Madison, Memphis, Little Rock, Mobile, Nashville, ATL, Houston, Raleigh, JAX, Pensacola & Tallahassee; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-85; snow in AK; Tomas moved over Curacao, may become a hurricane, now is a TD, with 35 mph winds, moving WNW at 5 mph; temps from the 40s to the 90s;
[R] Red rules the House; Tea Party victories; but [D] will keep key seats; the DOW ended up; CA voters did not legalize limited use of marijuana; MGM files for bankruptcy; the new political reality, are we ready for [R] red; the ‘split Senate’; 90 million Americans voted, and, this time, the [IND] favored the [R];
Two explosions in Baghdad; mail bombs appear across Greece; Discovery departure delayed, weather is a major factor; oil is $83.90 a barrel; gold is $1,337.60 an ounce; 5.4 quake struck Serbia; another earthquake rocked Indonesia;

Monday, October 25, 2010

…10/22–10: living life day by day

48º in ABQ; 80% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ Erotic Adult Film Festival has been postponed due to its location; two mile runway will be dedicated at the Spaceport; two teens killed in a car crash near Roswell; NM is facing a $260 million shortfall; an E-mail ignites debate at a NM GOV political discussion; SWAT situation in NE ABQ; yesterday, a tornado was spotted near Roswell; INTEL has been in NM for thirty years; it was a cold, cloudy, rainy day;
Left at 12:30P ate fish & chips at Two Fools; the ‘Big Move’ was today: went better, and quicker, than expected; for now, I will hope for the best;
Wet in: Wichita, KC, OKC, Dallas, Denver, ‘the’ Las Vegas, Amarillo, Tulsa, Syracuse & Erie; wet along part of I-90; Megi has struck Taiwan, now has 110 mph winds, moving N at 7 mph: its effects have been felt in Japan; TS Richard has 40 mph winds, and is not moving; temps from the 50s to the 70s;
Carpal thumb syndrome; the DOW ended down; toxic powder sent to AZ politician; eleven year old boy admits having stolen two cars; 24 million Americans suffer from diabetes;
More water has been found on the moon, 50% more than originally predicted: China & India want to land on the lunar surface; Hillary Clinton is in PAK; France will raise its retirement age from 60 to 62 years old; cholera outbreak in Haiti; divorce rates rise in China; massive INTEL release by Wiki-Leaks, exposing classified documents, including Iraqi torture of prisoners: the guilty party ‘may’ face espionage charges;

…10/23–10: peace, and pride
45º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…local abuse p
uppy gets a new, safe home; busted: organized crime, stolen merchandise & illegal immigrants living in luxurious Santa Fe homes; a drunk pedestrian sustained only minor injuries when he was struck by a Rail Runner train; 7K homeless veterans in NM; local fire chief accused of planting small cameras in ladies restrooms; a woman may be the next leader of the Navajo Nation, a region that has a 50% jobless rate; S Pacific exhibit at the ABQ Aquarium; no one was injured after an unmanned drone crashed at Holloman AFB; Santa Fe Movie Studio tour this weekend;
Ten month old mummified victim sitting in a S CA vehicle; a possible meth lab in a Georgetown UNIV dorm; FL will now permit gay couples to adopt children; one of the cast of ‘Modern Family’ is gay, and from ABQ;
INTL Robot Show in Taiwan;

…10/24–10: global comfort food
45º in ABQ; 79% humidity at 6A…$150K in stolen items was confiscated from a Santa Fe home; attempted abduction of a nine year old girl from her SW ABQ neighborhood was presented when the child opened the man’s car door, and ran away; letters sent to African-Americans & Hispanics in the San Pedro Area from White Knights NM, a branch of the KKK; semi struck an overpass on I-40, near San Jon; 811K pe
ople attended this year’s Balloon Fiesta, 49K more than last year; S CO frost, freeze & snow warnings;
PA mother found a drunken stranger sleeping near her daughter’s bed in their APT; it’s the San Fran Giants vs. the TX Rangers in the World Series; Americans are still divided on Obama’s health plan, with 37% of those polled wanting to repeal the law; three CA beaches close due to shark attack threats;
TS Richard could now become a hurricane, and threaten Belize & MX; the first case of cholera in Haiti, a disease not seen in fifty years; the virtual fence between the US & MX is a failure;

…10/25–10: sunshine, and smiles
56º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; severe wind warnings across NM; roadwork on Lead & Coal begins; the Frontline Aryans is another white supremacy group in NM; lost COMCAST connection during the early evening; 91 mph gusts reported in Vaughn; ABQ Red Light Camera program needs an overhaul; hard freeze & winter storm warnings for N NM; GITMO detainee admits killing an ABQ soldier; in order to handle budget cuts, some NM campuses will have to close;
UNM football lost again this weekend; and so, it begins, and I am scared; Brent was out; traded tips; very windy PM;
Wet in: Seattle, SLC, Chattanooga, ATL, Montgomery [AL], Knoxville, Tallahassee, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Albany, Roanoke, Denver, San Diego, Huntsville [AL], Miami, Memphis, NYC, Rapid City, DC, Buffalo, Fargo, Orlando, Philly & Baltimore; rain along parts of I-70, I-75, I-90 & I-95; twisters struck TX yesterday, tipping tractor trailers traveling on I-45; Hurricane Richard has been dow
ngraded, now has 65 mph winds, moving WNW at 12 mph, made landfall in Belize; temps from the 50s to the 80s;
Obama continues on the campaign trail, but would not endorse RI [D] candidate; the DOW ended up; CA has 22million drivers, and has had medical marijuana for fourteen years, businesses that pay taxes to the state;
Another bomb blast explosion struck during prayer time in a Central PAK city; 7.5 quake reported off the coast of Indonesia; oil is $81.55 per barrel; gold is $1,338.90 an ounce; shooter in Sweden is targeting immigrants;