…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;

…9/28–10: love is just around the corner

65º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I have some of Brad’s head cold; 19 year old stabbed during a carjacking; deadly crash N of Bernalillo shut down all lanes of I-25; shooting near Alamogordo school; so far, there have been thirteen cases of W Nile Virus in NM; more water conservation is needed in NM; PRES Obama ate a local Duke City restaurant;
Should UNM football coach be fired, or should the UNIV keep him until his contract ends in 2013; empty AM R/R; polite college students offering me a seat on the PM R/R;
Wet in: DC, Pittsburgh, NYC, Wilmington [NC], Philly, Boston, VA Beach, Cleveland, Baltimore, Miami, Buffalo, Richmond, Syracuse, Providence & Orlando; landslides in Columbia; heat wave caused power outages in Los Angeles; something is brewing in the Caribbean: could it become ‘Nicole’; rainy along sections of I-4, I-79 & I-95; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
18 month old NC child drowned in a drainage ditch; NV has the lowest high school graduate rate; our country has resumed its UFO ‘craze’; the DOW ended up; deadly DC drive by shooting; man killed himself in the library at the UNIV of TX in Austin; the income gap between men & woman continues, the gap between the rich & poor is widening; car ignited on Los Angeles freeway; marriages reach a record low; fatal shooting in Mattapan; should we question Obama’s faith;
Iran attacked by computer virus; bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Eiffel Tower; youngest son of N Korea ruler may be the next leader of that country, becomes a top military officer; oil is $76.86 per barrel; gold is $1,306.60 an ounce; the ‘Ambassador of Alien Affairs’ for out of this world visitors; more US drone strikes in AFG;

…9/29–10: color your world with colorful colors
62º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; record warmth across NM; ABQ needs bus drivers, but the pay starts at $11 per hour; Obama likes green chili; NM may allow medical marijuana to treat some forms of depression; Santa Fe child is in critical condition after her head got stuck in a car window; $3.4 million has been allocated to NM for improving the state’s forest areas;
UNM Basketball team is winning; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale,, Wilmington [NC], Key West, Charlotte, Raleigh, DC, Savannah, Roanoke, Duluth, Tampa, Orlando & Tallahassee; mudslides in MX;TD number sixteen has 35 mph winds, moving NNE at 14 mph, could threaten inland areas of New England: flood warning from FL to the Carolinas; rainy conditions along parts of I-75 & I-95; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Court rules that stem cell research can resume; this is NATL Coffee Day: most Americans admit they need their fix; 30% of DC children live in poverty; more gay & lesbian characters are appearing on TV shows; the DOW ended down; four military personnel at Ft. Hood, TX have committed suicide in the last week; tour bus with children had an accident on the flyover ramp of I-270 in MD, killing one person; cities are using volunteers to solve urban problems; OH B’day party for a three year old child turned into a slugfest; similar explosion was detonated to show what would have happened if the Times SQ bomber had succeeded; 11.7 million Americans are receiving food stamps;
Potential terror threats against Britain & France; balloonist missing during race, reportedly over the Adriatic Sea: they have family ties to NM; oil is $77.86 per barrel; gold is $1,306.60 an ounce;

…9/30–10: sleep softly, dream dearly
65º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; child died in Duke City APT complex fire; as of this AM, still no sign of missing balloonists in Europe; FBI investigating a homicide in the Jemez Pueblo; mother charged with child abuse after keeping her newborn child in a closet; a new Santa Fe nudity ordinance has been passed; VP Biden was in ABQ today;
It would cost UNM too much to fire football coach Locksley; worked on the hundreds of TES edits that an absent Coder left behind;
Wet in: DC, Norfolk, Wilmington [NC], Raleigh, Roanoke, Richmond, Baltimore, NYC, Philly, ATL and Boston; rainy conditions for parts of I-81 & I-95; the remnants of Nicole has merged with two other low pressures to produce heavy rains; a Chesapeake Bay tornado warning, including DC; an E Coast flood watch from FL to ME; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Fischer–Price announced massive toy recall; Tony Curtis has died at the age of 85; inappropriate clothing will prevent you from taking the White House tour; the DOW ended down; McDonald’s may drop health INS coverage for its workers; the best September for the stock market in 71 years; MT man hit his sister in the mouth with a wrench during her wedding reception; 2.3 million homes are in foreclosure; NC father stabbed his son with a fork in his stomach because he would not take the older man to a bar; the NYC ‘Naked Cowboy’ may run for PRES;
Terrorist threats against Germany; PAK is blocking NATO supplies to AFG; BMW & Rolls Royce cars recalled; oil is $77.86 per barrel; gold is $1,309.60 an ounce;

…10/1–10: journey, and transcend
38º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; $87K was spent at the NM GOV mansion for receptions during 2009; today will be great weather for the Balloon Fiesta opening activities; man stole items from ABQ hotel, including furniture, and it was all caught on security cameras; has the Parq Central opened; water pipe leak at Carlisle and Comanche; Brad made Portuguese Sweet Bread;
Hell Week, Day One; need to find a new office; no comic climb today; Aaron was in Woods Hole for a seminar;
NYC suburbs in the dark due to yesterday’s heavy rain; wet in: Albany, NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, Green Bay, Duluth and Flagstaff; rain along sections of I-87 & I-95; strong winds in the NE US; two DC METRO buses collided because of the downpours; sink hole in New Haven, CT; twenty-two inches of rain fell on Wilmington, NC temps will range from the 50s to the 100s;
Anderson Cooper will host a new daytime talk show; the new NASA budget will save the agency: however, 1,200 of its workers will be laid off today; Obama may lose his Chief of Staff, who will run for mayor of Chicago; MI father used his two year old daughter as a ‘human shield’ against a taser attack; one in ten Americans suffer from depression; the DOW ended up; MICROSOFT vs. Motorola over legal matters; children’s cereal box mistakenly contained the number of a sex ‘hot line’ instead of a charitable ORG; many Americans associate Muslims with terrorism; the World’s Largest Smiley Face was created in Orlando, FL;
Militants torch tankers in AFG; earthlike planet has been discovered; Osama bin Laden behind the European terrorist threats; another Osama bin Laden tape has surfaced; gold is $1,317.80 an ounce; oil is $79.97 per barrel; US scientists infected Guatemalans, as well as students in Tuskegee Institute, with syphilis…under the guise of ‘public health testing’;

…10/2–10: the best thing to make…is a friend
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;

…9/25–10: respect what matters

59º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…Brad has a slight head cold; body swept in arroyo on Thursday has been found in the Rio Grande; proposal to change the Los Ranchos/Journal CTR Rail Runner stop to ‘El Pueblo’; missing local photographer safely found in MT; more cars vandalized on the E Side, and more arrests made; CYFD will not cut daycare coverage, but they will pay less money to the providers of these services; the S Valley GE plant where engine parts for planes were made has permanently closed its doors; last week’s storm pushed ABQ over its monthly, and yearly, rainfall average; there will be forty drop-off locations across NM for unused, or unwanted prescribed medications; last night, Johnny Tapia scored another victory; NM GOV is having a yard sale; stepped into the shower while still wearing my glasses;
The bodies of missing NM hikers make NATL news; today is NATL Hunting & Fishing Day; one person killed at Los Angeles party; it is always better for a doctor to admit a medical mistake;
Bomb threat forced a plane to make an emergency landing in Sweden; a capsule has arrived in Chile to free the captive miners; three astronauts, who were at the INTL Space Station, have returned to Earth; five foot spiders live in Africa;

…9/26–10: mutual admiration with friends
64º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…two local motorcyclists involved in serious accidents; armed & dangerous men elude police, causing a SWAT situation at Juan Tabo & Indian School, threatened to shoot one officer; mother accused of sexually abusing her two children since they were born; Estancia boil water warnings, due to E Coli; jockey died at the Zia racetrack when his horse fell to the ground; the NM GOV candidates held a forum today; ‘our’ Las Vegas is 175 years old; ABQ man won millions of dumplings at the World Karaoke Championship in Moscow; on our own, or with each other’s help, Brad & I solve computer problems; NM State Fair fireworks tonight;
Seattle to Amsterdam flight had to return to its point of origin because of an unruly passenger; OR mother robs a bank, then picks up her children from school; a NYC woman & her boyfriend are accused of beating her two year old son to death; no one was hurt after a landing gear resulted in a plane’s wing to scrape the tarmac at Kennedy Airport in NYC; shark attack at VA Beach; the Patriots won; because of a hot, dry summer, fall foliage season may fall flat; OH male cheerleader being bullied, he has even had his arm broken; no ‘safe’ or ‘true blue’ [D] states this election;
Two NATO workers were killed during an AFG bombing; another E Coli strain that may become drug resistant; the US/MX border is the ‘safest’ it has ever been; rain from Matthew is still falling in MX; Operation: Dragon Strike will attempt to rid AFG of the Taliban; during London Fashion Week, model fell out of her high heels, and onto the catwalk; Hyundai recalls 140K Sonatas; will there be new conflicts between Israel and Palestine as the Jewish settlement freeze will end tonight; young fashion: red, black, white & leather;

…9/27–10: effective efficiency
58º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; female NM inmate dies while in jail; ABC World News was in ABQ; fatal shooting in Santa Fe; Obama held an ‘outdoor economic forum’ in Los Padillas;
Sex offender roaming UNM Campus; I am the only Coder in my area; this past weekend, kept working on my Pseudo Code directions; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Tallahassee, DC, Raleigh, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Charlotte, NYC, Orlando, Savannah, ATL, Macon [GA}, Baltimore, Philly, Roanoke & Knoxville, sunny conditions for ABQ mentioned on the Weather Channel; rainy weather along parts of I-10, I-81 & I-95; more flooding in WI & MN, as disaster emergencies declared; a Tidewater Tornado Threat; Los Angeles reached 113º; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Children do not drink enough water; security vs. privacy on the Internet; only 70% of US students graduate from high school, teachers complain about inadequate salaries; bedbugs have appeared in 28 states, and now stinkbugs are invading America; children’s ice hockey injuries are on the rise; 3.1 tremor shook NH, 2.1 miles below the ground; the DOW ended down; Obama wants a longer school year; five people are injured when a Seattle water taxi struck a pier; murder-suicide in FL, two children were killed during the incident; SW Airlines will be buying Air Tran;Iraqi & Iranian forces clash along their border; a change in leadership for N Korea; did drugs, and a ‘crazy’ sergeant, cause US soldiers to kill AFG citizens; ‘give them weapons, and they will fight’; oil is $75.86 per barrel; gold is $1,296.00 an ounce; 5.5 quake shook Iran; PRES Obama said if America was threatened, we would attack PAK;

…9/18–10: sweet techno

66º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…Obama will visit NM on 9/28/10; 19.3% of NM residents live in poverty; ABQ teacher had pot plants in her house; plenty of people at the NM State Fair yesterday; both Coal & Lead streets in the Duke City will be widened; there are eighteen breweries & brew pubs in NM; ‘peaceful protest’ will be held for the W Mesa murder victims; [R] spending lot of money on NM political races; local woman owes $12K in fraudulent Medicare charges; Urban Farm Fest in ABQ, this state has ‘unique’ food; a new UNMH will be completed in Rio Rancho by the end of 2011; 91º: record high temp for the day; Brad & Warren vs. Warren’s PC;
Two tornadoes, plus a 125 mph microburst, struck NYC this past Thursday; there will be a merger of United and Continental Airlines; MT wants to make it illegal to be a homosexual in that state; 40% of Americans carry a gene that causes celiac disease which could be triggered by gluten;
Igor has 110 mph winds, moving NW at 13 mph, with Bermuda in its sights; Chilean miners may be rescued sooner than originally expected;

…9/19–10: from tomorrow, to today
69º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…some of the MX/US governors met in Santa Fe to discuss the increase in border violence; NM ads say not to vote for one candidate, but do not support the opponent; citizen CSI Academy will be held in the Duke City; abandoned cave in SE NM will become a new home for bats; drunk images of people appear in the restrooms of the UNM stadium; S CO fire warnings; NM Black Expo was held yesterday at the ABQ Civic CTR; record high temps yesterday in Gallup & Chama; Cooking Channel episode took place on the Santa Fe Plaza; fatal stabbing in NW ABQ; a diplomatic dinner will be held at the NM GOV mansion;
BP has officially stated that the Gulf oil well/spill has been capped, and the crisis is over…or, is it; laptops could be used to detect earthquakes; the ‘Jeep’ brand has been around since 1941; bus driver reading an E-book while behind the wheel, caught on a passenger’s cell phone camera; thirteen people of a CA cult may be planning a mass suicide; fewer Americans now have health INS coverage; the Tea Party may do more harm than good to the [R]; some OR crab meat products may contain Listeria; [R] wants to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill; TX father accused of killing his three children;
More car bomb attacks in Baghdad; Igor has 85 mph winds, moving N at 13 mph, and heading for Bermuda, where power outages have already been reported; also causing high waves from FL to Cape Cod; Iranian leader traveled to NYC;

…9/20–10: as life leisurely continues
67º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; three people accused of stealing copper pipes at an ABQ store; a NM highway may be renamed for a Navajo Code Talker; bones of a mastodon-like animal have been found in S NM; W side residents wants weeds removed; saw Jean this PM; NM GOV meeting cost $200K, but did not cost the state taxpayers’ one penny; water main at Fourth & Griegos;
UNM grad students face budget cuts; more money going to UNM film industry courses; Brent is very sick; no weekend CTI Admits; printed, but did not rely on Census or Registration Reports;
Wet in: Corpus Christi, Fargo, San Antonio, Roswell, Seattle, Chicago & Houston; rainy across sections of I-35; Igor battered Bermuda with 93 mph gusts, and major beach erosion reported, there are boulders on the tarmacs have hindered people leaving the island via airplane, the storm’s peak winds were reported as WSW, at 60 mph; is there a TS Lisa in the Atlantic; SE US heat wave; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
The last light bulb has been produced at the Winchester, VA General Electric plant: the future is complete walls with LED bulbs; the era of genetically produced salmon has begun; UT wildfires burning near SLC; the DOW ended up; NYC railway bridge fire halts traffic; secret Motrin recall; the recession is over, lasted eighteen months, and came to a close in July, 2009; 79% say it has not ended; man claims ‘caffeine insanity’; the Gulf oil spill has cost BP $9.5 billion;
Train crash in India has killed ten people; tension rising between Japan & China; oil is $75.34 per barrel; gold is $1,279.00 an ounce;

…9/21–10: the ability of equality
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; as of 11/1/10, VP Biden will also be visiting NM; 5K children will no longer have daycare, because of CYFD budget cuts; stabbing at a Motel 6 in NW ABQ; human remains found at a Carlsbad construction site; Carlsbad is one of the best communities in the US for youths; ABQ native was on the ‘Ellen’ show;
Director visiting the PEDS Coders, there is also a ‘surprise’ B’day party for her at the Bradbury; there are different procedures for various Coders; print, but don’t rely on Census or Registration reports;
Wet in: Chicago, Des Moines, Dallas, Tucson, Great Falls [MT], the Twin Cities, San Antonio, KC, Omaha, Houston, Corpus Christi and Des Moines; TS Lisa has 40 mph winds, moving N at 5 mph; rainy along areas of I-10 & I-80; frost & freeze warnings for New England; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Political ads say that global warming destroys our freedoms; when swallowed, Tinker Bell will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; disk ‘button batteries’ can burn the esophagus; cyber bullying is worse than verbal or physical attacks; the 4K acre fire in UT was caused by the NATL Guard, who were practicing outside SLC; the DOW ended slightly up; using heat & cold to kill bedbugs; man has a worm inside his retina; huge fire in the Bronx; man threw bricks from the roof of a CO school; two people killed, another injured after shooting at Ft. Bliss; “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal rejected in the Senate; the 1K lb. WV pumpkin; more people support/favor the First Lady, than the PRES;
Jupiter is at its closest point to Earth; oil is $73.05 per barrel; oil is $1,272.40 an ounce; hackers invaded Twitter; at least 100 people were injured when bleachers collapsed during a Brazilian car race; money laundering at the Vatican; the next step, transparent airplanes; nine special ops forces died when their helicopter crashed in AFG; Bermuda cleans up after Igor leaves;

…9/22–10: love, laugh, live
72º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man was arrested after he exposed himself to a mother & her children at a local park; pipe bomb exploded in an ABQ mailbox; man stabbed near a Duke City train station at First & Central in the downtown ABQ area; Flood Watch for W NM; a rise in heroin use among Duke City students; a man dressed like a ninja, and holding an ax, robbed a Santa Fe store of $4K in jewelry; Brad made Blackened Mahi; there is an auto museum in Rio Rancho; five men arrested for vandalizing cars in NW ABQ; more people are being stalked in the Duke City; NM leads the US in recovering from the recession;
People ask ‘what do I want’; to decrease classroom size, UNM will offer more online courses; can still use info from specialists; PM downpours at UNMH, leaks were appearing in the roof;
Wet in: Detroit, St. Louis, ABQ, Corpus Christi, Des Moines, El Paso, Sioux Falls, Houston, KC, Dallas, San Antonio St. Louis, INDY Buffalo, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, the Twin Cities & Green Bay; rain along sections of I-10, I-35, I-70 & I-90; Igor struck Canada, causing bridges to collapse; TD Georgette has 35 mph winds, moving NNW at 14 mph; severe weather struck Chicago last night; Lisa has 45 mph winds, moving ENE at 5 mph; NE US Fire Threat; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
Bitter battle in the White House, called the “Obama’s Wars”; a heightened terror threat in the US; the end of ‘child only’ INS policies; high altitudes may be linked to more suicide attempts; only 30% of those polled support the health care reform bill; the DOW ended down; three people died in Fairfax, VA house fire; a Baltimore house fire forced people to jump out of second story windows; FL courts struck down a ban on gays & lesbians adopting children;
Paris Hilton detained in Japan for possessing drugs in the US; bombs killed ten people in W Iran; oil is $74.33 per barrel; gold is $1,290.20 an ounce; people are angry about a proposed new road that would run through the Serengeti NATL Park in Tanzania; Russia will not sell weapons to Iran;

…9/23–10: the world class
60º in ABQ; 96% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; man swept away by arroyo waters has yet to be found; ABQ received 1.74” of rain yesterday, the most in 50+ years; parents upset over CYFD daycare cuts in coverage; does the Duke City need another bridge to cross the Rio Grande; semi burned on Jefferson; local photographer missing from ‘our’ Las Vegas; forum being held to help small businesses start in NM, and provide initial funding;
MGR out for two days; quarterly UNMMG meeting at 3P: dropped off at Central & UNIV, walked to the R/R bus stop, and arrived home before 5P; UNM professor accused of being a dominatrix;
Wet in: Twin Cities, KC, Billings, Des Moines, Wichita, Seattle, Green Bay, Omaha, Rapid City, Miami, ABQ, Amarillo, Duluth & Madison; Richmond may reach 100º; wet along sections of I-35 & I-90; for now, TD Lisa poses no threat; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Obama addressed the UN today; more health care reform benefits go in effect today: the [R] have created a ‘Pledge to America’, or ‘Midterm Manifesto’, which includes vetoing that bill; the DOW ended down; cake that circled the entire New Orleans Superdome; five million cans of Similac being recalled because of beetle parts found in the formula; people with illnesses will have to pay more for INS; one man, one state [OK], one day, four robberies; computer coding problems shut down Facebook again;
Human error may have caused the Titanic to sink; union workers in France may go on strike; oil is $75.39 per barrel; gold is $1,294.30 an ounce; ‘live with pandas for a month’ contest; Iran leader says he respects both the Quran, and the Bible: was this said before or after the US walked out of his speech;

…9/24–10: respecting respect
57º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; teen slams into a gas meter, causing a gas leak; racial tensions at Volcano Vista High School; are chemicals or pesticides in the water causing deformed frogs; more police patrol around Olde Towne during the Balloon Fiesta;
Left at 12:30P: ate at Saggio’s; some people have worked thirty years at UNMMG; UNM police dog has retired;
MN & WI floods; TS Matthew may move into the Gulf of MX next week: currently, it has 50 mph winds, moving W at 16 mph and moving towards Central America; wet in: Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans, Tulsa, INDY, Seattle, Dallas, Portland [ME], Duluth, Miami & Tallahassee; storms along sections of I-90; new fires in CO & IN; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Homes sales are flat; greed is still ‘good’ in the twenty-first century; Eddie Fisher has died at the age of 82; female inmate has been executed in VA; the DOW ended up; three credit unions shut down in TX, CT & IL for possessing toxic assets; another computer worm wormed its way through the business computer world; Seattle grandmother killed herself and three people; female sleepwalker found strolling in a swamp; fire destroyed Manassas, VA homes;UK raised its terror threat level; undocking problem at the INTL Space Station; oil is $76.49 per barrel; gold is $1,296.00 an ounce;