…10/12-08: interesting thought

58º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Valles Calderas received $200K grant to improve public access to the site; very little traffic entering Fiesta, people not attending for fear of storms; domestic violence the cause of woman being killed in her Central & Tramway APT; for good flying, winds have to remain below 10 mph; still chance of storms: today’s events are ‘in the air’; 25º in Gallup; too much demand for female cadets; plenty of stress put on officers, part of the job; Santa Fe mayor spent $15K on traveling; at least thirty minute delay for farewell Mass Ascension balloon flight…final decision: cancelled; perhaps turn the Park into football field; this is the thirty-seven year for the Fiesta; many leaving park when events called off; Road Runner sign blew off from yesterday’s storm; crowds have seen snow during previous Fiesta weekends; tributes to pilot who died during Fiesta; put lives before events, weather the big factor; Brad making City Chicken; VA family honored wish of eight-five year old matriarch to visit the NM event; man found dead in his car at I-40 at Unser; cash registers damaged by Saturday storm, pea to inch size hail fell, some in the Duke City; NM approves offshore drilling; ‘mass exodus’ from Fiesta; ABQ was able too refinance loan at 4.9% rate; one balloon inflated, but remained on the ground; ‘false, deceptive political attacks’; most power outages in the E MTN; gas: in the US & NM, its $3.25: in ABQ, $3.03; hail damaged popular pumpkin patch; police involved shooting in Hatch, one man killed; Brad immensely helped my save picture & apply them to new blog site; two men died when their plane crashed near Santa Teresa, NM;

pasta: calories & carbohydrates; Cloris Leachman was be the Grand Marshall in the Tournament of Roses Parade; eight days in a row the DOW has dropped; Obama’s ‘blind ambition’; ‘All My Children’ veteran actress died at the age of 90 from pneumonia; very warm Chicago; corrosive leak from train car in PA yesterday, similar to sulfuric acid: caused toxic cloud; residents told to leave their home, given the green light to return to their houses; grim faces at White House meeting: US in ‘early stages’ of meeting; ‘force’ banks to loan money ‘soon’; PRES asks for patience; suicide nets for Golden Gate Bridge; more men prefer short hair; Tampa beat Boston in 5½ hour game: tied in series; Maxima on ‘Smallville’; NATL AVG price of gas has dropped to $3.247 per gallon; with AK & OK still have the highest & lowest priced states; six states have AVG fuel pump costs less than $3; people creating new websites or blogs have run into problems when moving from AOL Homepage; our bad weather makes CNN News; 100 days left under PRES Bush; 750 acres have burnt N of Los Angeles; more upper class families shopping at thrift stores; speeding boast crashed into MI pier, killing several people; McCain’s current bailout plan will not work, Obama may be the new PRES; Colts lose player; Billy Graham released from HOSP; a coherent plan is needed now!; GOVT intervention is necessary; we are living in the land of ‘new debt’; negative ads, mean negative poll numbers for McCain: big on flip-flops, little on issues; improve confidence, by buying banks?; we keep getting told what the US GOVT ‘may’ do;

more militants killed in AFG; no assurances from Bush to solve the global crisis, do what it takes to solve this meltdown; Soyuz spacecraft carrying two tourists, including a US millionaire, to INTL Space Station; Russia tested missiles, landed E of Kamchatka Peninsula; fifteen countries that use the Euro as currency will meet in an attempt to solve the financial crisis; TS Odile hugging SE Coast of MX; Norbert has weakened: 40 mph winds, heading NE at 21 mph; is UAE ‘immune’ from meltdown?; Bush urging unity in solving global credit crisis, yet various groups being formed to tackle the problem; the ‘Group of Twenty’ & the ‘Group of Seven’ are still searching ways to improve the financial situation; police board pirated captive tanker; Madonna too old to tour, should stay home & be a mother; Australia guaranteeing bank deposits; Middle East stock markets are starting to fall, including Israel; European banks beginning to trust each other; the global panic affecting poorer countries worse than richer nations; near the Strait of Gibraltar, winds & high seas cause a cargo ship to break in half; biggest panic since great depression; auto sales around the world are falling;