…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 the 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 gentleman’; 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 Duke 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 weekend; 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 children 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 turned 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 himself 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;

…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-77 & 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 weekend 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 asked 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 barrel; 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 bottle 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 parlors 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 Catholic 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;

…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 puppy 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 people 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 downgraded, 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;

…10/14–10: cultural creativity

52º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; property crime on the decline in Bernalillo CNTY; man impersonated a police officer during a home invasion this past weekend; Brad’s laptop arrived, and it has a camera; child care rally at the Round House in Santa Fe; bombs found in adjacent mailboxes in an ABQ neighborhood;
How to reduce the time spent in the Pavilion; a ‘good morning’ E-mail from my boss;
Wet in: DC, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philly, Erie, W Palm Beach, Olympia [WA], Richmond, Raleigh, Miami, NYC, Roanoke & Buffalo, ABQ forecast mentioned on the Weather Channel; Cuba preparing for Hurricane Paula, which now has 75 mph winds, moving NE at 5 mph; Nor’easter is forming along the NC coast; rain for sections of I-81;
NYC is the worst city for road rage; less college students support Obama; RI surgeon left part of a drill bit in a patient’s head; the DOW ended slightly down; adult porn star tests positive for HIV; twenty states want to overturn Obama’s health care bill; 100K foreclosures in September, the highest monthly amount in history, paperwork being processed ;
All 33 trapped Chilean miners have been freed, the entire rescue took less than 24 hours, and they want to take a hot shower: some may be released from the HOSP today, these men have become INTL celebrities; nations put aside their differences for a day to watch their rescue; oil is $83.01 a barrel; gold is $1,377.60 an ounce; three more NATO officers have been killed in AFG; the miners were afraid of death, and cannibalism; tropical diseases are affecting billions of people;

…10/15–10: knowing vs. believing
55º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two climbers are rescued near Sandia Peak after they fell into a canyon; cocaine bust in the Duke City; bags of marijuana found inside truck tires; ABQ police officer charged with raping a family member; free dental clinic at Expo NM; multiple car crash has shut down I-25 near Bernalillo; my YouTube role is becoming an advisor;
Leave at 12:30P, lunch at Saggio’s; Brent’s B’day; home before 5P;
Wet for Boston, NYC, Albany, Pittsburgh, Tucson, Providence, Bangor and Portland [ME]; rainy traveling along parts of I-90 & I-95; chance of snow in the higher elevations of NH & VT; New England has its first Nor’easter; TS Paula takes aim on Cuba; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Lauren Bush works with UNICEF to feed needy children; Botox for migraines; bedbugs found at Lincoln CTR, in NYC; the DOW ended down; the US deficit is over $1 trillion;
The Darfur conflict has split that nation; some Chilean miners are being released from the HOSP; there are about 5K UFO sightings reported each year; four people trapped in Ecuadorian mine; 35 mile rail tunnel under Switzerland will link Germany to Italy; oil is $81.25 per barrel; gold is $1,372.00 an ounce;

…10/16–10: seek imagination
53º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…another local man threatened a family member with a hatchet; ‘loud party’ ordinance enforced in Santa Fe; Former youth minister, and pastor, accused of possessing child porn images; water meter lids are being stolen in Rio Rancho; NATL beer event in the Duke City this weekend: plus a drag queen Bingo party; Santa Fe ‘Ninja Bandit’ is still roaming & robbing the City Different;
More Gulf of MX waters are open for commercial & recreational fishing; common items bought in pharmacies can be used to possess meth; Halloween ‘costume exchange’ in a CA city; ‘Smallville’ & ‘Supernatural’ are doing well;
Chinese mine explosion killed twenty people; the 15 lb., $8 million diamond encased cell phone; Sao Paulo car chase resulted in a collision with a bus a police motorcycle, and many damaged vehicles; ten of France’s twelve oil refineries have stopped producing fuel; Chilean miners receiving book & movie deals, plus plenty of free gifts;

…10/17–10: be part of the human league
48º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…Brad made an Apple Pie; his flash drive arrived; Pumpkin Festival in Estancia; many NM homes need flood INS, it is not covered on a typical homer’s policy; NM gubernatorial being held today; Duke City Marathon being held today; it will cost $2 million to repair the Cumbres & Toltec R/R trestle;
Woman backed into a police car; in AZ, motorized hand glider slammed into a hot air balloon; 47 year old OR man collapsed & died during cross country race; two people killed in N AZ bus crash; frozen vegetables recalled, bags may contain glass fragments; the Patriots won in O/T; piece of steel from the WTC will be on permanent display near Seattle; worst decline to charitable organizations in the past twenty years; the various reasons states look like they do, shapes based on gold, mountains & rivers;
Audrey Hepburn stamps sells for over $600K at a Berlin auction; last Chilean miner has been released from the HOSP; fraud suspected in AFG elections; NATL Geographic will air a program about Virgin Galactic;

…10/18–10: nothing should be beyond your dreams
55º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the gloves came off in the Martinez–Denish debate; 1K acre fire is burning in the Jemez MTN; no one was injured when an ultra light plane crashed near Los Lunas, after the pilot suffered a medical problem; NM student participated in the White House Science Fair, and met the PRES;
UNM has too many vice presidents; empty AM R/R;
Typhoon Megi struck the Philippines, heading W towards China & Vietnam at 17 mph with 145 mph winds; wet in: Detroit, ‘the’ Las Vegas, Cleveland, INDY, Flagstaff, Fresno, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Madison & Fargo; rains along areas of I-70 & I-94; temps from the 50s to the 80s;
Battle between Fox TV & a cable network company; the DOW ended up; younger children are using marijuana, and CA wants to legalize the substance; oil can still be found under the Gulf of MX sand; two postal employees killed in TN; beer will be sold during dinner hours at a Starbucks in Seattle; political ads are getting more vicious; women are more prone to getting Alzheimer’s;
Possible al Qaeda terror attack against France; peace talks resume between Palestine & Israel; Russia creating weapon of mass inflation: decoy tanks and rocket launchers that are actually balloons, costing much less than the real thing; Osama bin Laden may be living in N PAK; gas stations in France are running on empty; oil is $82.83 per barrel; gold is $1,372.10 an ounce;

…10/19–10: a moment in music
54º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; on NM GOV candidate is from TX; local mother on the run, accused of abusing her two year old son; sexual topics discussed at NM school, without getting the parents’ permission; a HOSP may be built in Valencia CNTY; solar plant to be built in Las Cruces; police car stopped a vehicle near The Beach yesterday; fake nurse arrested in NM, accused of ID theft;
Morning Pavilion Tour with Nora, cancelled; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: OKC, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philly, Little Rock, NYC, DC, Tulsa, Shreveport, San Diego, Dallas & Memphis, rainy along parts of I-40; Typhoon Megi has 115 mph winds, moving W at 7 mph: the second highest storm warning has been issued, as it approaches the industrial region of China, while fishing boats have been advised to return to port; temps from the 50s to the 80s;
More recalls of Tylenol, citing a moldy smell; an increase in surgeries on the wrong people, or the wrong parts of the patient’s bodies; did an airplane come too close to the Golden Gate Bridge; NY man died after being beaten for his vintage comic books; the DOW ended down; the Crystal Cathedral mega church filing for bankruptcy; several shots fired at the Pentagon this AM; INTEL creating jobs in OR & AZ; privacy problems facing FaceBook; heroin use is on the rise across America; 2.5 million homes in foreclosure, and another five million are more than sixty days behind in payments;
105 tons of marijuana has been seized in Tijuana; Queen Elizabeth II received a rock from the mine that trapped Chilean workers; gunmen raid the Chechnya Parliament; oil is $83.08 per barrel; gold is $1,336.00 per ounce;

…10/20–10: pure faith
53º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…GAQ; tax incentives lured a movie to be filmed in NM; school budget will be needed across the state; whooping cough cases are in the rise in NM, and across the US;
UNM is holding an anti-Gay forum at the SUB today; the UNIV will not be allowed to sell alcohol at The Pit; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: ATL, New Orleans, DC, Miami, Traverse City, San Diego, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Richmond [VA] and ‘the’ Las Vegas; rainy along areas of I-20 & I-95; floods in Haiti, Peru & Greece; “decaying” T’storms; Megi has 135 mph winds, slowly moving N at 6 mph; and is approaching Hong Kong; temps from the 50s to the 80s;
pilot refused body security scan, went through a metal detection search, but declined a physical pat down search, so he was barred from boarding the plane he was going to fly; a reality show where people have to work at a FL nudist resort; the DOW ended up; more baby strollers recalled;
AFG & Taliban hold more peace talks; GOOGLE will display the Dead Sea Scrolls online; Britain is still in a recession; more riots in France; oil is $81.55 per barrel; gold is $1,344.20 an ounce; former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been hospitalized;

…10/21–10: magical movements
54º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; power outages across parts of ABQ from evening T’storms; dynamite stolen from Eddy CNTY home; most local gay teens say cyber bullying is the most common method used to harass them; man tried to pick up a sixth grader girl as she was walking to class; naked local man tried to burn down a neighbor’s house; cut & consolidate the NM budget; an increase in purse snatchings; snow on the Sandia crest;
Nervous about the move; ‘forced’ silence; how would MGMT feel if they were put in this situation; no CTI Admits; registration report had problems this AM; how would NGNT feel if they were faced with this situation; we are in Code Purple;
TS Richard, with 35 mph winds, moving SE at 3 mph; wet in: Buffalo, Phoenix, El Paso, Albany, ABQ, Lubbock, Pittsburgh, Hartford, NYC, Boston, Amarillo, Santa Fe and Syracuse; chance of snow in NH & VT; rainy along areas of I-10, I-81 & I-90; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will be enforced again; car decorated for Halloween; couple suing TN restaurant after getting ill from using their ‘Mega Death’ chili sauce; the DOW ended up; man started a fire in a CA mall, near Sacramento; mall quake drill in CA; the ‘novel’ approach: would be writers use the Internet to publish books; tainted celery, four deaths; [D] have ‘election year fear’; Southwest Airlines posted a profit this past quarter; expect more delays when boarding a plane; the TARP program making a profit; women give more to charities than men;US citizen released from Tehran prison; deadly bus bombing in the Philippines; Toyota recalling 1.5 million vehicles; 6.9 quake shook W coast of MX; oil is $81.80 per barrel; gold is $1,325.10 an ounce;

…10/10–10: sweet serenity

52º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…the NATL Historic Cultural CTR is ten years old; Bill Clinton will speak in Espanola this week, in support of Diane Denish; a Zero Carbon Rally at the ABQ Academy today; woman drove her SUV into the Santa Fe River; this has been one of the best attended, and best weather Balloon Fiestas in many years: all AM events are on; fewer balloons this AM, but one of them came close to the APT complex; but more people attended the fair today than expected; local schools are again targets of vandalism & graffiti; one balloon landed atop a traffic light near the KOAT studios;
It is 10/10/10; fewer people eat enough whole grains; Steve attends NLP Conventions; ‘property virgins’; mortgage companies are sending security firms to change the locks of repossessed homes, to the point of breaking & entering the property, or if the house has not gone into foreclosure; [R] candidate getting bad publicity for wearing a Nazi uniform during a WWII reenactment event; no COLA for Social Security recipients;
Mercedes Benz recalled 85K vehicles; ancient mosaic unveiled near Jericho;

…10/11–10: re-inventing fashion
49º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a health hazard from mold has forced the evacuation of 100 people in the Kewa Pueblo; this past weekend, a motorcyclist & his rider were killed on I-25, near Gibson; while flying over N TX, one of the American’s Challenge balloons was shot at: the winner of the race landed in Canada, N of Detroit;;
MGMT meeting at 10:15A; I will return to PEDS; our MGR is retiring; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: OKC, KC, Dallas, Tulsa, Pittsburgh, Shreveport [Louisiana], Yellowstone, Omaha, Little Rock, Des Moines, Cleveland, State College [PA] & Billings; rainy conditions along areas of I-35 & I-80; more CO wildfires; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
More mortgage fraud being investigated; many students are dropping out of college after only one year; anti-gay remarks by NY political candidate; the DOW ended up; NY man wanted to stab a child, so he stalked restaurants & malls, searching for a victim; embryonic stem cells injected into persons with spinal cord injury; TN funeral parlor used an urn to prevent a robbery; missing ten year old girl from NC; plastic explosives found in Manhattan cemetery;
Escape shaft almost completed to rescue the miners in Chile; Hillary Clinton is in the Balkans; the world got their first glimpse of the new N Korean leader; oil is $82.66 per barrel; gold is $1,354.40 an ounce;

…10/12–10: the colors of creativity
53º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; local gay teens are being bullied, turning to suicide as the solution; Santa Fe woman dragged thirty feet during a purse snatching; raw sewage at APT complex near Montgomery & Jefferson; ABQ underground pipes are at least forty years old; Nex Gen Academy opened in the Duke City; Guadalupe CNTY marijuana bust;
The new situation will prevent two Coders from being moved to Bradbury; UNM football team is one of the worst in the nation;
Wet in: Philly, NYC, Boston, Baltimore, Tulsa, St. Louis, Denver, Cheyenne, Memphis, Duluth, KC, New Orleans & Miami; rainy along parts of I-10, I-35, I-55, I-75 & I-90; Hurricane Paula has 100 mph winds, moving NNW at 10 mph: a slow, small storm; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
More people are painting, rather than carving pumpkins; AZ man admits decapitating a person that he knew; woman fainted during Clinton political rally in WV; Obama says we need a ‘smart system of infrastructure’, including a more reliable electric grid; the ‘natural policy progress’; a weak economic forecast through 2011; Tea Party Patriot CONV in VA; the DOW ended up; FED judge said the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy should end, immediately; Gulf of MX open for oil drilling again;
After 69 days, Chilean miners could be freed, starting tonight, as cracks are seen, and tremors are being felt; in the Ukraine, 42 people killed when a train struck a bus; tanker leaking fuel off the Dutch coast; oil is $82.21 per barrel; gold is $1,346.70 an ounce;

…10/13–10: the birth of dreams
56º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…tractor trailer fire shut down I-40E in the E MTN; proposal to remove all nuclear weapons from KAFB; Roswell school will be closed for the rest of the week because of a pipe which caused water damage; dangerous chemicals brought to an ABQ police substation; crash along I-40, E of the Duke City; there are 14K abandoned mines in NM; five year old boy left school: no one knew about the incident, nor could anyone do anything about him leaving the structure; across ABQ, Walgreens’ are being robbed; train crashed into a car near Grants;
With good health, comes increased productivity; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: Nashville, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Key West, ATL, Knoxville & Cincinnati; rainy along sections of I-40; Hurricane Paula has 100 mph winds, moving N at 9 mph; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
The ‘Crystal Coast’ of NC; EPA will allow more ethanol in gasoline; CO car dealer sent naked pictures of himself to a potential female customer; NC autistic child found a package of diabetic syringes on a school bus; the DOW ended up; $163 million has been taken from Medicare by people involved in a Medicare fraud scheme; one home may be owned by many banks; 4.3 quake shook OK, while a 4.6 tremor was reported near the Aleutian Islands;The Chilean miners are being freed: their rescue capsule is called the ‘Phoenix’, they appear to be in good shape, appear healthy; with freedom, comes fresh air; they were trapped 2,041 feet below the surface, in one of the driest regions of the world; this is the rescue seen ‘round the world; oil is $81.67 per barrel; gold is $1,370.50 an ounce; cargo plane crashed in AFG;

…10/9–10: the code of music

54º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad prepared Scrambled Eggs for Breakfast, then Shrimp with Lobster Sauce for lunch; walkway lights from Valencia CNTY cemetery are being stolen; sinkhole at the corner of Montgomery & Juan Tabo; this AM, we saw lots of balloons in the air; local woman stole a car during a test drive, then returned with another vehicle, which had been vandalized; more money spent on Duke City inmates, than on the city’s students; double shooting during home invasion in NW ABQ; the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is being held this week in the Duke City; this weekend, the Taste of NM is being served at the ABQ Civic Plaza; this morning’s Balloon Glow was a go; the America’s Challenge Race started last night; Brad also made Corn Bread; one balloon did get stuck in a tree;
Ten people were injured when a CA rollercoaster rolled back into the waiting area, slamming into the next train at the platform; another school, another bullying, several deaths; anti-gay attacks in NYC; eight year old boy stabbed in NY restaurant several times, the victim will recover; ice cream brand made in CA could cause people to become ill with typhoid fever;Four NATO service members were killed in AFG; after 66 days, ferry ablaze in the Baltic Sea; the 33 Chilean miners will be rescued; US has often thought about using a nuclear bomb against N Korea; 5.9 quake shook Costa Rica;

…10/2–10: the best thing to create…is friendship

64º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…overnight T’storms at The Beach; the HQ for DNA science is moving from the Duke City to Santa Fe; people have not given up hope in finding the missing balloonists who were last seen off the E Coast of Italy; about $100 million will be spent by tourists during the next eight days; the AM events for the Balloon Fiesta appear to be going on as planned; UNM homecoming prep rally today; one in seven NM domestic violence cases involve children; The Beach is fully occupied until the end of November; NM Spaceport received FED funding; the Travelocity ‘Roaming Gnome’ is attending the Balloon Fiesta;
Dunkin Donuts sells the most amount of coffee, about thirty cups per second; one should not use a percolator to create the drink: it tends to burn the taste; Bank of America puts foreclosures on hold in 23 states; Los Angeles man spent six days in a desert canyon without food & water, but he is improving at a CA HOSP; ad companies increase the volume on their TV commercials;
Coffee was imported from Europe to the Caribbean; the coffee houses, or cafés, in Europe, gave rise to the newspaper, a place where people shared stories; deadly train crash in Indonesia; Osama bin Laden has released another audio tape, the second in a twenty-four hour period; robots are being used to find the missing balloonists; India is one of the biggest consumers of butter; Druid is an accepted religion in the UK;

…10/3–10: true beauty should never be ignored
56º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…last night, nocturnal rain at The Beach; everything appeared to be a ‘go’ for AM events at the Balloon Fiesta today; there is also an Arts & Crafts Fair in ABQ, as well as an ‘Oktoberfest’; yesterday, hail fell around the Jemez & San Felipe Pueblos, and in the E MTN of ABQ; today, Mass Ascension was a ’go’; eight men arrested as part of a statewide child porn network; so far, no debris from the missing balloonists has been found; foreclosures on the rise in Rio Rancho; Balloon Glow was given the green light; this is the 39th year for the INTL event; record crowds is were reported at the Fiesta yesterday; this AM, the ‘ABQ Box’ was working; there are 140 vendors at the event; today, UNM students prepared ‘care packages’ for families of teen suicides; one balloonist did get tangled in power lines, but the electricity was immediately shut off; a woman is running for the position of Navajo PRES; [R] candidate is leading in the NM GOV race; as a team, completed UNM dependent audit;
People cannot afford the premiums for ‘pre-existing conditions’ medical INS coverage; flight from MX to Denver was halted on the CO runway because of a sick child onboard the plane; for the first time, there will be three women on the bench of the US Supreme Court; the TARP program ended today; he/she is “not the sharpest knife in the drawer”;
It’s time for the Paris Auto show; US tourists traveling to Europe are told to be alert for possible al Qaeda style attacks by terrorists teams: extremists in Europe on a planned timetable, Germans trained in PAK;; a rock & roll jihad for peace;

…10/4–10: natural beauty: the best
59º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…GAQ; there were ‘park & ride’ problems getting to Fiesta Park; search has ended for missing balloonists; a ‘baby bee’ is a new addition to the special shape balloons; so far, the America’s Challenge balloon race was a ‘go’; Las Cruces wants to build a museum of Nature & Science; NM has the fifth highest number of children live in poverty, about 25% of our youngsters; NM resident killed while jet skiing in waters that border MX;
Hell Week, Day Two; helped a co-worker with her TES edits; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Philly, Cleveland, Atlantic City, SLC, Boise, Remo, Phoenix, DC, Baltimore, Buffalo, Albany, Bangor, Roanoke and ‘the’ Las Vegas; Midwest AM frost & freeze warnings; rainy along parts of I-80 & I-81; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
People who sit with laptops on their legs could suffer from ‘toasted skin syndrome’; student killed at NC UNIV; the DOW ended down; Verizon admits overcharging customers in cell phone fees: blame on a ‘software glitch’; using dogs in Asheville, NC to find bedbugs; defects delay the debut of the new $100 bill; OH mother accidentally shot her son in the leg;
Taliban attack more tankers on the AFG/PAK border; there is a travel ‘alert’, not a ‘warning’ for tourists in Europe; UN climate change conference is being held in China; another lion attack, this time, at a circus; oil is $81.58 per barrel; gold is $1,316.80 an ounce;

…10/5–10: harmony, and pleasure
60º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…GAQ; officer involved shooting on the Isleta Pueblo, near the Hard Rock Casino; bedbugs have been found in a NE ABQ APT Complex; America’s Challenge balloon race has been delayed due to a chance of bad weather; pedestrian struck & killed on Gibson; less Rail Runner riders than this same time, one year ago; house fire near I-25 & Gibson;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; quickly took care of a charge that had not been coded for my Director; no CTI Admits; mostly positive Gay remarks on the sidewalks of UNM;
ABQ weather conditions, and Balloon Fiesta photos, were mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Boston, Miami, Flagstaff, Albany, NYC, Philly, Buffalo and DC; bad weather along areas of I-80, I-90 & I-95; fire danger in the SE US; temps from the 50s to the 80s;
Barge hit high voltage line in Houston, TX: caused up to $1 billion in damages; Tea Party support is slipping; GOOGLE TV: the next step in watching programs; FL man goes on a deadly rampage before killing himself; NM GOV race makes NATL news; US trains & subways are also on a ‘travel alert’; sign of the times; CNN mentioned the ABQ Balloon Fiesta; fewer families own more than one vehicle; younger people are suffering strokes; TN house goes up in flames because the homeowners failed to pay a $75 rural fee that allowed firefighters to battle country blazes; mother beat her child because of a low math test score; TN man shot a teen because the youngster was wearing saggy pants; the DOW ended up; White House going solar powered; the Patriots won;
Trapped Chilean miners may be freed by mid-October; a ‘general threat’ for European travelers; Japan cut its prime interest rate; man died boarding a plane to Dubai because he was blind; oil is $82.82 per barrel; gold is $1,340.30 an ounce; dam burst at metal processing plant in Hungary, causing a toxic sludge/tsunami to destroyed homes, and kill animals; more oil in Iraq than originally estimated;

…10/6–10: a beautiful fashion
57º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; America’s Challenge Balloon Race has been delayed another day; two boys suffered major leg injuries in Valencia CNTY when their ATV collided with a truck; texting will no longer be allowed when driving in the Duke City, even if the car is stopped; car thefts are down in ABQ; seventeen countries participated in the Flight of Nations;
Re-design meeting at 11A; the hierarchy and power of MGMT & doctors does not make sense; some changes, more interaction with Brent; no CTI Admits; we are in Code Purple; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philly, SLC, San Diego, Redding [CA], Farmington [NM], Providence, New Bedford, Springfield [MA], Parkersburg [WV], DC, Baltimore, Roanoke, Los Angeles, NYC and Roanoke; rainy weather conditions along sections of I-70, I-80 & I-81; two teens struck by lightning in St. George, UT; snow in the Great Smoky NATL Park, in NC; AZ tornadoes; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

Art made from tornado damaged bicycles; FL minister left his one year old girl in a car while he attended services, she died; proposal to do HIV testing at DC DMV offices; man found something in his can of soda that he bought from a vending machine; the Times SQ Bomber will spend the rest of his life in prison; OH mother shot her two children, then killed herself; the DOW ended up; this year, $3 billion will be spent on TV political ads;
The toxic sludge burned through clothes, and could pose an ecological disaster, polluting the Danube; AFG leaders meeting with militant groups for peace talks; ‘grime’ music?; oil is $83.08 per barrel; gold is $1,347.70 an ounce;

…10/7–10: let the games begin
58º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; water main break at Louisiana & Lomas; mothers sold crack cocaine while their children starved, and lived in filthy conditions; local man arrested for growing pot on his backyard; should NM convicts be allowed to vote in elections; the Special Shapes Glowdeo should be held tonight;
It will take time to learn this pseudo code process, especially if the rules change every week; some people cannot handle large numbers;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Grand Junction, Erie, Spokane, Yellowstone, Albany and Providence; wet travel along sections of I-95; TN frost warnings; N AZ twisters tipped trains & trucks: some injuries were reported, but no deaths from the 110 mph winds; slim chances for a Hurricane Otto; temps from the 60s to the 80s;
Free vs. insulting freedom of speech; BP oil spill cover-up by the White House; woman will live thirty days inside a glass cube at a Chicago museum, she can sleep inside the BLDG, and can walk its halls at night, her food will be catered; the DOW ended down; Lipitor is being recalled; this November, 37 states will choose a new GOV; AZ woman accidentally sealed her eye with Superglue, thinking the bottle contained eye drops; 43 million Americans are in need of food stamps, but NYC may not allow this type of money to by soft drinks; cottonmouth moccasin snake bit a tourist at a FL resort;
The toxic chemical sludge has reached the Danube River, tainted parks may be closed for years; oil is $83.23 per barrel; gold is $1,335.00 an ounce; the war in AFG is ten years old; an 8K ft. sandwich has been made in the UAE;

…10/8–10: change vs. dollars, and sense
60º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ: the America’s Cup Challenge race has been delayed for another day; raw sewage filled local APT; man displays knife at an ABQ City Council meeting to express his disgust in being arrested for feeding the homeless; bomb scare at a local K-Mart; freeze warnings for parts of NM; bullying on Rio Rancho buses: this topic is a major concern on the ABQ school website;
Left at 12:30P, and ate at Saggio’s; work on more older admissions; are there location changes in my future, and when will this occur; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Rapid City, Olympia [WA], Billings, SLC & Seattle; snow in the Denver area; the N Plains of the US is past peak foliage; TS Otto has 70 mph winds, moving ENE at 14 mph, does not pose any threat to N America as it strengthens into a hurricane; temps from the 60s to the 80s;
Father used his children to rob cars; a man has ran across the United States, and planted a flag with the name of a fallen soldier: he averages thirty miles per day; CO town is making money by selling medical use marijuana; CA cases of whooping cough have reached numbers not seen since the 1950s; the life expectancy of Americans has not increased; largest public works project has been stopped, the cost has gone way over the proposed amount; the DOW ended up; two students shot at Carlsbad, CA school; Bank of America faulty foreclosures are frozen across the US; no change in the US jobless rate: still 9.6%; 72K dead people received stimulus checks;

Man from China wins the Nobel Peace Prize: currently, he is in jail; the drilling is getting closer to reaching the trapped Chilean miners; oil is $82.66 per barrel; gold is $1,345.30 an ounce;