Saturday, November 13, 2010

…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 th
e 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 gen
tleman’; 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 D
uke 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 wee
kend; 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 child
ren 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 tur
ned 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 him
self 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;

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