…4/18-10: a sweet treat

47º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…the movie ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ will be filmed in NM; $5 million will be donated to NM education funds by a developer if Santa Fe…if a GOVT BLDG is built on his land; new KAFB commander will worker with the person in charge of nuclear weapons projects on that base; flooding in Rio Arriba CNTY, in N Central NM; Charles, the cross-country cat, who traveled 1,300 miles from ABQ to Chicago, has safely returned home; the art of buying a new PC; early to bed tonight!; PM storms at The Beach; Chama may be declared a disaster area, telephone service to that town has also been disrupted;

NJ woman won $212 million in the Powerball lottery; the CA Cannabis Expo is underway; heroin use is ‘high’ in high schools; the economy is growing faster than expected?; every ‘tweet’ on Twitter will be stored in the Library of Congress; will the Goldman Sachs scandal help or hurt the US economy?; but banks will not have to increase the amount of monetary assets; so far, ‘Alice’ has earned $324 million;

KLM & Air France are testing planes, and might resume flights today, claiming the ash cloud is thinning out: others say it is belching 750 tons of ash per second, and that the plume could become more ‘concentrated’ by midweek; the volcano keeps erupting, and low level explosions could continue for a year; this has become a battle between the airlines & the meteorologists, and while S European countries are allowing flights, most flights to N Europe & Russia remain grounded; by the PM, 50% of flights may resume across Europe; $1 billion of revenue has been last during the past four days; FedEx has cancelled some of its INTL flights; Iran is so strong, “no country would dare attack it”, so says its leader;
…4/19-10: not your ordinary comic book
53º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ inmate has killed herself; sandbags being prepared just in case the rivers near Chama overflow; more rain for NM; drunken man’s eleven year old nephew drove the uncle’s car, which smashed into a parked vehicle; communications outage in the city occurred this past weekend, affecting 30K people; 4,600 Duke City students are homeless; ABQ slumlord has to pay the city $26K, and never do business in the city again; ABQ has a tiny, deserted downtown; Brad’s AM Chiro visit;

MGR was out today; work on weekend admissions; in a world where you don’t talk, for fear of getting into trouble;

NM showers mentioned on ABC AM News; rain in Tallahassee, Little Rock, Santa Fe, Memphis, Denver, Orlando, Miami, New Orleans & Portland, OR; snow in N ME; temps from the 50s to 80s;

15 years since the OK City bombing; today is the Boston Marathon; 80% of Americans polled do not trust their politicians; OK prom couple watched as their got repossessed; creative & colorful poodle care; could the ash cloud reach N America?; the DOW ended up; 30% of Americans have not returned their 2010 Census;

British ships will start transporting stranded fliers; some people may be stuck for another week, while their departure cities try to make these people feel comfortable, even providing high tea & movies; for now, airports in Spain are the continent’s major hubs; seven million passengers are stranded, people are running out of money & medications; the volcano is still erupting; Discovery landed may be delayed by rain; oil prices are falling as demand for jet fuel decreases; it will be a slow return to normalcy; N Italy airspace remains closed; the ash cloud is drifting into W Asia; couple got married in France, in front of other stranded passengers, and broadcast their wedding to their British relatives; 5.3 quake shook the AFG MTN; Obama could not attend the Polish leader’s funeral; planes will attempt low level flights; 70% of Europe’s airspace remains ‘closed’; oil is $81.47 per barrel; gold is $1,135.20 an ounce; two major al Qaeda leaders were killed in Iraq, a ‘significant blow to terrorism’; how do you pronounce the volcano’s name?; is the ash cloud getting closer to Earth?; Chinese quake death total has reached 2K; tomorrow, more planes may be flying, as the ‘no fly’ zone becomes smaller; people are ‘trapped’ all over the world; one couple got married in Dubai, the preacher performed the service via a monitor;