…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;