…12/12-09: color & music, with a little bit of upbeat emotions

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…the twenty-first Winter Spanish Market being held this weekend in Santa Fe; NM ranks twenty-six in the number of alcohol-impaired traffic deaths per miles of roadway; Santa Claus rode the Rail Runner today; Golden Dragon Acrobats performing in Santa Fe; Winterfest parade being held in the Four Hills area of ABQ; more diagnoses proposed for medical marijuana use in NM; 62.8% of low income NM school children are offered free breakfasts, the highest in the nation; more wet weather for NM; the ‘flaw’ of a Cancer is being too emotional; my ‘therapy toys’ have been given to Joy Junction, so needy children can receive holiday gifts; finished my yearly evaluation; plenty of cars at thrift stores across the city than at the malls; one of my YouTube friends is from Spain!; NM SEN leader Manny Aragon had a castle built in the S Valley of ABQ, before he was sent to jail; Brad made Oven Baked French Fries that very tasty!; N NM Winter Storm Warnings;

drink vodka, beat cancer?; first class American Airlines passenger in trouble for ordering orange juice?; next Monday will be the busiest day for USPS; McDonald’s, Burger King & Taco Bell lowering some of their prices, the Golden Arches will offer $1 breakfast items; Wreaths Across America, to honor fallen soldiers; Tiger Woods, the billion dollar athlete, fading out of ads; bogus H1N1 scam via E-mail carries another type of virus, the computer kind; three hikers missing on Mt. Hood; Denver bank robber threatened teller with exposing her to the H1N1 virus, but the clerk could have said they had already got vaccinated, or have had the disease; $13 billion spent on holiday missing satisfaction; the “Princess of Color’ in new animated movie; the best of DC comics’ holiday issues;

Chanukah starts today; equipment problem delays NASA spacecraft launch; oil auction halted in Iraq; have ‘strategic patience’ with N Korea?; next invention: the bionic eye; cotton candy Foie Gras’ the food of the future?; ‘the Hubble Holiday Card’; the mission of martyrdom; tropical glaciers may be gone in twenty years; Nemo H2, a boat powered by hydrogen fuel cells, tours Amsterdam canals; huge cruise ship prevented from docking at a San Juan pier because of a work of art;