…2/15-10: totally transparent

23º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…GAQ; no more late-night weekend ‘parties’; Brad has a slight cold; Rail Runner rate hikes, plus cuts in weekend service, the first & last train; an increase in the state excise tax was not approved; Rio Rancho teens charged with shooting B-B guns at vehicles; guns may be allowed in some restaurants that serve beer & wine; final phase of Spaceport has begun; female Duke City teacher accused of raping a male student;

very cold AM R/R; Code Purple, or ‘Deep Purple’, as someone called it, by 9:30A; could not save document, system kept indicating my file was full; finally got system to work;

more snow for Boston, Albany, Pittsburgh, Louisville DC, INDY, KC, Cincinnati & Omaha; rain in Mobile, ATL, New Orleans & JAX; wet weather for Vancouver; bad driving along parts of I-10, I-70, I-71, I-75, I-81 & I-85; snow for the N Rockies, and from MI to GA; temps from 10s to 70s;

CA health INS CO will postpone rate hikes; the ‘dynamic trio’: Sarah, Rush & Dick; woman found rat in her bathroom, flushed it down the toilet; 911 operator helped save his son’s life; actor told he was too fat to fly; fatal NE pileup along I-80; shooting at San Fran church appeared to be gang related; yoga for children; the oldest US person on ‘Death Row’ dies in AZ jail; GA man stabbed his estranged wife to death at a Wal-Mart parking lot; in case people have forgotten, today is Presidents’ Day, but nobody has the day off!; people are buying fake job references; the DOW went down; snow is collapsing roofs; four dead in NJ plane crash; carbon monoxide leak evacuates a NH hotel; does ND town really want new residents?; movie tickets are still selling in today’s economy; ME man deliberately living without heat in his home; is Congress ‘broken’, ‘poisonous’, ‘dysfunctional’?: 71% of those polled say something is wrong on Capitol Hill; Oscar statues will have the winner’s name engraved;

two high speed trains collided in Brussels, one of them ran a red light, the impact threw cars in the air, and broke overhead power lines; warm weather also plagued Grenoble, France during its Winter Olympics; our US troops in AFG also have to battle sandstorms, bombs are embedded in walls; Canada won a gold medal on its home ground; is Iran heading towards a military dictatorship?; Haitian school has collapsed, killing three children; it is Carnival in Rio; correction: this may be the Chinese Year of the Tiger; oil is $74 per barrel; gold is $1,090.20 an ounce; underwater weddings held this past weekend off the coast of Thailand; has a UFO been sighted over the moon?;