The World of Azzarb & the Elusive Mr. b

…11/4–10: no goal should be out of one’s reach

2010-11-13T20:09:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-03T17:27:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-25T17:43:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-21T17:14:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-13T17:14:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-09T19:06:00.001-07:00

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

2010-10-09T11:23:00.001-07:00

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

2010-10-03T06:22:00.001-07:00

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

2010-09-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

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;

…9/12–10: let me be myself

2010-09-18T11:07:00.000-07:00

62º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Brad made Ma Po Tofu yesterday: it was wonderful: today, he prepared Scrambled Eggs for breakfast; local man was at the Pentagon on 9–11; more NM men charged with sexually assaulting minors, or sex texting them; a women who may have been drunk was walking on Central in W ABQ when she was struck and killed by a vehicle; $1.64 million grant awarded to NM for improving public safety; Duke City Solar Festival being held this weekend; Valencia CNTY police officer is again ‘under investigation’; Navajo Code Talker has died at the age of 91 years old; to help the state’s economy, NM GOV is traveling to Madrid, Spain;
There is a ‘hospital hierarchy, most people believe surgeons are male; Eminem video has 100 million views; American families are addicted to technology, when forced to live without it for 48 hours, there is a return to family night, plus going out to bowl, and reading a newspaper: but they began feeling withdrawal syndromes, and boredom near the end; fires in San Bruno, and Boulder, where YouTube & GOOGLE are located; let the football games begin; the mini-toothbrush; now, San Bruno knew for three years that there were gas line problems, and people still cannot return to their homes; the Patriots won; more US families are in homeless shelters; oil can still be found on the seabed oin the Gulf of MX;
Hurricane Igor has 140 mph winds making it a CAT 4 storm], moving W at 14 mph; again, Iran says it will set free the female US political prisoner, but the country requires a $500 million bond for her release; Armenia may have produced the largest chocolate bar; accidental US missile strike on PAK; newborn found in garbage bag at Philippine airport; Julia & Karl are also in the Atlantic; electricity, water & cigarettes have been provided to the trapped Chilean miners;

…9/13–10: jumping into infinity
65º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A… GAQ; ABQ man charged with raping two woman, he may have been dressed as a police officer; is the new Coors/Atrisco bike bridge too bumpy; Kim had a baby boy;
UNM football player accused of theft; so many GPU patients in PICU; slowly but surely getting the pattern of entering charges; empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, NYC, Erie, Syracuse, Boston, Tampa, Dallas, ABQ, OKC and San Antonio; NM burrito eating contest mentioned on the Weather Channel; Igor has 150 mph winds, moving W at 13 mph, with 935 MB of barometric pressure; TS Julia has 40 mph winds; wet along parts of I-35, I-45, I-75 & I-90; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
New CO wildfire, near Loveland; CA pipeline that exploded in San Bruno was over fifty years old, and scheduled to be replaced; gossiping could be good for your health; ‘superbug’ is infecting people in CA, IL & MA: it travels from hand to mouth; the DOW ended up; burnt Quran left outside a MI Islamic CTR; Lady Gaga was the top winner at the MTV Awards: her dress was made of meat; 9–11 ‘survivor’ tree is brought back to life, and stands 35 feet high; Walgreen’s is offering a $30 gift card when you get a flu shot; scanners in supermarkets are making mistakes; across America, there is 2.5 million miles of pipeline under the ground; crime is down in the US; Oprah gave all the members of her audience a trip to Australia;
Major MX drug lord arrested; weather conditions are prevented an American suffering from an illness to be transported from Antarctica; several killed in Venezuelan plane crash; Team USA won the world basketball championship; Cuba to lay off 500K state workers; gold is $1,245.10 an ounce; China is facing major water shortages; oil is $77.30 per barrel; MX students taught how to dodge bullets;

…9/14–10: looking into the past
66º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; murder rate is up in NM; director of financial affairs for the NM State Fair is arrested on DUI charges; Brad’s Kindle arrived; mold at Rio Rancho middle school is making students sick; probation officer was selling ‘clean urine’ to criminals; more NM residents will have access to the Internet; downtown Duke City shooting this AM, over a increase in a bus fare, the man confronted police with a large knife; monsoon season can increase allergies, as weeds begin to bloom; NM couple were part of the audience on Oprah’s first show of her last season: they will be flying to Australia; downloading pictures t o a CD during dinner;
Work on GPU charges; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: KC, OKC, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Roswell, St. Louis, Dallas, Des Moines & Miami; wet driving along parts of I-35, I-75 & I-80; CAT 4 Hurricane Igor has 135 mph winds, and now moving WNW at 8 mph; Hurricane Julia has 75 mph winds, moving WNW at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
No leaks reported after a train containing various acids derailed in WI; $100 million set aside by Pacific Gas to pay for damages caused by last week’s pipeline explosion: the San Bruno area had been inspected for leaks twice during the past year; real estate reality vs. religion in the building of a ‘Ground Zero’ mosque in NYC; more teens getting high off cough syrup; the DOW ended down; woman washing their hands more often than men, prior to leaving a bathroom; the ‘enthusiasm gap’ may cause the [D] to lose Control over Congress; can one ever have too many YouTube videos; police failing to follow-up on rape cases; ‘Disco’ is the theme at the NY Fashion week; ‘thought pollution’;
Hillary Clinton in Egypt, where peace talks are being held; gold is $1,269.70 an ounce; after 410 days, the female American hostage has arrived home: the remaining US ‘prisoners’ will have to face trial before the Revolutionary Guard; Eiffel Tower evacuated due to bomb threat; inebriated American pilot relieved of his duties before leaving from Europe on a commercial jet; oil is $76.60 per barrel;

…9/15–10: the art of diplomatic thought
62º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; major Santa Fe criminal escaped from a moving police car last night, but was later caught; CYFD worker admits he collected child porn; ABQ now has a ‘graffiti tracking system’; NM Golf Open begins at the Santa Ana Golf Club; nudity ban in Santa Fe challenged; more minorities in NM are taking SAT tests;
Try again to work on CTI charges; many autos vandalized at UNM: thieves strike cars with clearly visible items, such as purses & computers; impromptu meeting in the late PM; no PICU Admits; former MGR’s last day; our director will be watching what we do during the next week;
Karl has 65 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; Igor has 145 mph winds, moving WNW at 10 mph, heading towards Bermuda; rain along parts of I-35, I-70 & I-90; wet in: Twin Cities, KC, Wichita, Des Moines, Duluth, Fargo, Omaha, Miami, Tampa, Seattle, Tulsa & Rapid City; wildfires burning near Reno, NV, and Loveland, CO; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
The Tea Party claims a victory in DE; a 9+ lb. lobster was caught off the FL coast; broken water mains hampered battling the San Bruno fire last week; ninth child in CA has died from whooping cough; a surgical way, or ‘freezing fat’ methods to remove love handles; Americans unsure how to define a ‘gay family’; the DOW ended up; Prince Poppycock…America’s latest talent; naked man went on a shooting spree in PA; naked woman in Louisiana tried to steal a taxi, to take her home in MI; dead man found in an LAX bathroom; OH mother taught her two year old how to smoke pot; the BP leaking oil well in the Gulf of MX may be completely sealed by this weekend; TX man stung by 1,200 bees; camel pulled from OR sinkhole; 44% of those polled strongly support the Tea Party, dislike the [R], and hate the [D]; AVG age of child prostitutes is 13 years old, and there are 100K youngsters forced into this line of work; the basis of a ‘family’, is children;
Palestinians are anxious for peace in that area; France bans burqas; oil is $75.84 per barrel; gold is $1,266.70 an ounce;

…9/16–10: predicted, and prepared
67º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…GAQ; new Four Corners monument will officially opened; vases on Rio Rancho veterans’ graves have been stolen; Rio Rancho student will be reprimanded for bringing a pellet gun into school, even though it was not going to be used for criminal purposes; Santa Fe nudity ban discussion was put on hold; NM leads the nation when it come to handling Amber Alerts; Espanola teen found with hit list, which included teachers; computer equipment stolen at security protected racing car park; local woman has urn stolen, it contained her brother’s ashes; truck fell into sinkhole at Copper & WY; saw Jean yesterday; Brad gave Warren our old printer;
Much clearer on how the pseudo system works, pieces falling into place, have to change the way I handle PICN charges;
Wet in: Green Bay, Cincinnati, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Detroit NYC, Erie, Nashville, Roswell, INDY, Chicago and Detroit; rainy along parts of I-4, I-64, I-70, I-75 & I-90; snow in Tasmania; Igor has 145 mph winds, traveling WNW at 7 mph, threatening the E Coast with rip currents; Karl threatens MX, with 50 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
TN leads the nation with the high obesity rate; own a pet turns a couple into a ‘family’; illegal drug use on the rise; man more homes in August taken by banks because of foreclosure reasons; the DOW ended up; doctor shot, patient & her son killed at Johns Hopkins HOSP in Baltimore; poverty on the rise in the US: one in seven people, or 44 million citizens, fall into that category; dashboard camera filmed TX police beating its motorcyclist; woman admits she threw acid on her own face;
Middle East peace talks stalled, but will persist; Susan Boyle sung for Queen Elizabeth II; gold is $1,271.90 an ounce; sixteen mysterious infant deaths at Dominican Republic HOSP; Boeing will fly you into outer space…for a hefty price; oil is $74.61 per barrel; explosion ay Philippine cheerleading event; MX is 200 years old, and is celebrating with a parade that cost $40 million;

…9/17–10: lovely dreams
66º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; female Volcano Vista student was sexually assaulted by a jogger while walking home from school; teen set fire to an APT; should condoms be distributed at ABQ schools; former LANL scientist accused of providing nuclear secrets to Venezuela; use methane from landfills to produce energy;
Another piece of the pseudo code problem is falling in place; copy the TES pages, and work from them; left at 12:30, ate at Saggio’s; no PICU Admits; Coder wants to meet with Dr. Cordova; learned, by myself, how to delete incorrect patient entries from the lists;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Seattle, Omaha, Corpus Christi, Billings, Knoxville, Asheville, Des Moines, Salinas, Providence, Boston and Cape Cod; a twister may have touched down in NYC during rush hour last night, with 80 mph winds, causing trees to fall, and power outages; Igor will pass over Bermuda with 125 mph winds, as it moves NW at 9 mph; Karl has 120 mph winds, and is heading for the E MX coast; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Superbug is fatal in 30–60 percent of reported cases; Broadway play, massive fish killing in the Gulf of MX; ‘Swimming Upstream’ is written & based on the lives of woman who survived the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; US ranks ninth in the number of college graduates; the DOW ended up; DC police shot & wounded a man who pointed a gun at them near the US Capitol; after decades on the air, ‘As the World Turns’ aired its last episode today; the era of gluten free food; helicopter crashed on Pikes Peak; Prince Poppycock did not win;The start of Yom Kippur; parliamentary election in AFG; Prince William graduates as a military search & rescue helicopter pilot; oil is $73.66 per barrel; gold is $1,275.60 an ounce;

…9/8–10: layers of love

2010-09-12T09:35:00.001-07:00

70º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I now have 10K YouTube hits; three year old ABQ child has tested positive for meth; some Rio Grande High School students have incorrect schedules; three more W Nile Virus cases in NM; Duke City man set his home on fire; body found in NE ABQ park; PM showers at The Beach; ABQ has 290 city parks;
Since I had work dumped on me these past years, I know how to handle complex entry situations; UNM students oppose the burning of Quran event, scheduled in FL on 9–11; keep people in their seats, and out of my business; we still have the problem of capturing follow-up specialist services;
Wet in: Tampa, Boston, Hartford, Providence, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Louis, Denver, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, SLC, Little Rock, OKC, Abilene, Wichita, Lake Charles [LA], Santa Fe, Seattle & JAX; Hermine is flooding TX, shutting down interstates; rainy along sections of I-10, I-20, I-35, I-40 & I-90; mid-Atlantic fire danger, temps from the 60s to the 90s;
Wildfires are burning near Boulder, CO, with 7,100 acres charred, and are still considered out of control; several blocks in Detroit have been consumed by fires; lion attendant attacked by animal at the MGM Grand in ‘the’ Las Vegas; many American have negative opinions against those who worship the Islamic faith; in order to fell pleasure, teens are embedding themselves with sharp objects; the DOW ended up;
Two asteroids passed by Earth; written bomb threat found in the bathroom of a Thai airline forced the jet to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles; N Ireland student brought a bomb to school that he had found along his walk; oil is $74.95 per barrel; gold is $1,255.60 an ounce; fake translators, who failed translation courses, are working with US soldiers in AFG;

…9/9–10: peaceful soul
64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM will receive $5 million to improve neighborhoods; ID Amber Alert ended safely in NM; NM: the land of great cooks; during the past 18 years, there have been nine Rio Grande High principals; dog registered to vote in NM elections; three NM schools received Blue Ribbon Awards; garbage truck accident at I-40W & Coors; Zozobra burns tonight; NAACP will hold its yearly meeting in Las Cruces;
Starting to find patterns in entering pseudo code charges; we are in Code Purple; knowing how to enter services should reduce Group 4 charges…but, for some reason, the date if admission appears on some TES entries, which means the service should be routed into the ‘past due’ category; for every day, there is a TES entry; pseudo codes cannot handle O/P services;
Wet in: Springfield [MO], Twin Cities, Dallas, OKC, Little Rock, St. Louis, Orlando, Billings, Tulsa, Memphis, Bismarck, SLC, Denver & Wichita; Hermine, and the ‘renegade showers’; up to fifteen inches of rain fell in parts of TX; yesterday, tornadoes touched down in downtown Dallas; wet along sections of I-44 & I-70; temps from the 60s to 90s;
Café du Monde opened in 1862; US traffic deaths have dropped by 9.7%, the lowest in 60 years; BP blames themselves, and others, for the oil rig disaster, but did not issue an apology: the company’s stock has risen in price; the burning of the Quran has been cancelled; the DOW ended up; CO blaze is threatening Boulder; divorce INS; increase in cotton prices may mean more expensive jeans & towels; tarantula invaded a NV newsroom; US trade deficit in July shrunk by 14%; will the NYC Cultural CTR be relocated: anti-US protests across the Muslim world; SECY of State called the FL pastor;
Castro says communism is no longer working in Cuba; Jewish New Year begins; MX mayors are being murdered; oil is $74.21 per barrel; gold is $1,248.90 an ounce; spam attack of GOVT agencies & major companies around the world;

…9/10–10: infinity, and beyond
65º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…GAQ; N NM school evacuation due to bomb threat; local Iraq vet has been told his truck may get repossessed for not making payments; child predator has been sending child porn using computers in ABQ libraries; the Gathering of Nations & the Balloon Fiesta are two of the top 100 events in the US; prairie dogs still pose a problem at the SunPort; Rail Runner struck an abandoned car on the tracks in N ABQ;
Trying to understand how multiple TES entries for the same patient are appearing; only three days into the new pseudo code system, and people are finding faults;
Wet in: St. Louis, Nashville, Little Rock, INDY, KC, Wichita, Duluth, Fargo & Billings; bad weather along parts of I-35; temps from the 50s to the 90s;
Natural gas line break in San Bruno, CA caused in a huge blaze in a densely populated area, with hundreds of homes destroyed, and creating a crater in a mountainside: residents had detected the smell of gas for several weeks, and fire hydrants have been disabled by the blast..but by the end of the day, the blaze was fully contained; Red Flag Warnings in CO, which include the Denver area; suspended Philly employee killed two of her former co-workers; parts of Boulder, CO are under an evacuation order as wildfire heads towards that city; the DOW ended up; five year old boy wandered IL highways, without his parents’ permission; drive through supermarket opened in FL;
One of three Americans who were arrested for ‘invading’ Iran may be released: later in the day, it appears no one will leave that country; oil is $76.46 per barrel; gold is $1,244.50 an ounce;

…9/11–10: take the time to remember, and remember
58º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…more money may be taken out of state workers’ paychecks in order to provide better pension benefits at retirement; bad economic times mean more grandparents are taking care of their families; unemployed NM residents cannot access their benefits when they use their new debit cards; Bernalillo CNTY dog is a registered voter; women beaten in her own home by a man with a baseball bat; Sandia Labs has designed a method of using water to disarm roadside bombs; three rare guitars stolen from a SW ABQ man, these musical instruments were especially made for him; the State Fair Parade will travel two miles down Central AVE; can local prostitutes help solve the W Mesa murders;Religious tensions on the increase during this solemn day for American; VP Biden was in NYC to honor those who died on 9–11, Michele Obama was in Shanksville, PA & our PRES paid tribute in DC; audiences may be tired of reality shows; the Flintstones are fifty years old; bus crash in N NY kills four people; KY man shot his family, then himself, because of the way his wife cooked eggs;
Igor may become a hurricane;

…9/4–10: code of freedom

2010-09-07T17:11:00.000-07:00

64º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…man shot in the back near UNM; guns, ammo, grenade & pot were found in a Goodwill donation box; the bedbug problem has reached NM, can be found in luxurious homes; NM ranks number in the best roads of America; street lights on Central in downtown ABQ need to be lit at night; NM Wine Festival being held in Bernalillo this weekend; wild hog roaming S NM; local man stole credit cards from his son’s teachers; NM could $100K in an INTL texting contest; a different kind of Saturday: ate at Saggio’s, then went to Albertson’s; marijuana discovered in cantaloupes inside an illegally parked vehicle in E NM; gas is $2.59 per gallon; fatal shooting in Crownpoint; had a fabulous dessert, and now it is time to return to our diet;
People eat more when they are dining out, than when they eat at home; Earl became a nor’easter by the time the storm struck Cape Cod: it now has 70 mph winds, moving NE at 30 mph;
Bar fire in Cancun; still assessing the damage from New Zealand quake, some injuries & damage reported, and a new fault line has been created; Earl finally made landfall in Nova Scotia; more fires are burning across Russia; the sun is in chaos;

…9/5–10: music is life
70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…a return to being diet conscious; ‘our’ Las Vegas has seen an increase in whooping cough cases; NM Artists for Autism Auction will be held next weekend; Brazilians tried to illegally obtain driver’s licenses in NM; Mac’s Steak House will begin a three month renovation; Alamogordo mother stabbed her son in the arms & shoulders during a drunken fight; teen killed in ABQ rollover crash; my closet has been cleaned;
Two babies killed in a collision on I-10 in Phoenix, AZ which involved a gas tanker; more people are driving drunk during the hours of 7A–noon; OH man allowed maggots to feed on his wife while she was still alive; sharks bite two surfers along the FL coast; Craigslist is shutting down its adult section, fearing prostitution charges; AZ woman had acid thrown in her face & torso: this is the second time an event like this has happened during the past week; dangerous shark found in the Potomac River; private sector controls the recovery of the US economy; Obama will be announcing his next ‘targeted initiative’ plan to help our country; ice crystals are forming around the BP oil cap;
One person is killed during an air show in Germany;

…9/6–10: love blossoms
66º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…last night, fireworks in the Duke City; woman beaten, raped in her ABQ APT, then wrapped inside a rug; rice cake ignited; NM economy will take five years to improve; Labor Day B-B-Q in Tiguex Park; 8.2% jobless rate in NM; local teen accused of stealing 19 computers, worth $20K, from ABQ school; Espanola woman was killed during a police car chase, that ended in the vehicle that she stole was involved in an accident; CNM needs more part-time teachers; fresh, roasted chilies should not be immediately placed in a plastic bag; Lincoln CNTY voters will decide on a sales tax increase to keep a racing casino in business; cocaine bust in Las Cruces; drivers whose vehicles are not ‘in motion’ can use their cell phones; the ‘Duke City Cleanup’, prior to the Balloon Fiesta; 10K views of my YouTube website; Aztec High School students will be required to wear ID badges around their neck;
NC auto theft, two year old was inside the vehicle at the time; Tropical storm Hermine formed in the Gulf of MX, could pose a threat to TX & NM; a US mortgage relief plan being created by Obama; whooping cough vaccine does not contain mercury; patio deck collapsed during picnic, injuring several people; FDA recalled 75K bags of dog treats that could be contaminated with salmonella; workers may be responsible to pay their portion of credit card balances on company credit cards if the business goes bankrupt; mummified babies found in Los Angeles APT; on average, it takes, six months for a jobless person to find work; wildfire near Boulder, CO; the term ‘casual encounters’ is the new sex category on Craigslist;
British minister accused of fraud marriage scheme; landslides in Guatemala; suicide bombing in N PAK killed 17 people; Chilean miners have been trapped for one month; meeting of N Korean GOVT could mean a change in leadership in that country; possible hurricane in the Gulf of MX;

…9/7–10: walking in the rain with nature
65º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; man with a machete tried to rob a local pet food store; the third US flag has been stolen from the ‘9–11’ park in Belen; military grave desecrations in Deming; still no schedules for Rio Grande High; gas leak evacuated homes, and shut down roads in the Five Points area; NM border security has not gotten any better;
The official first day of ‘pseudo codes’ in PEDS; created primary steps to create P-Code records; very crowded PM R/R; I was asked for assistance; too much data to create after three-day weekend; Newborn Nursery has the most missing charges; many patients from GPU were in PICU this weekend;
Wet in: Boston, Tin Cities, Miami, Orlando, Seattle, Cleveland, Duluth, Little Rock, New Orleans, KC & Flagstaff; bad weather along sections of I-90 & I-10; TS Hermine made landfall, yet still has a well defined eye: 50 mph winds, moving NNW at 17 mph: will bring up to eight inches of rain to: San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, OKC & S Padre Island; temps from the 50s to the 100s;
Why did the BP ‘fail safe’ device fail to stop the oil leak; houses burned in Boulder, CO blaze; the PRES wants to improve runways, railways & roads; medical malpractice costs have reached $55 billion; if the [D] lose Congress in 2010, they could regain it in 2012; the DOW ended down; more money being spent on election campaigns; naked bicyclists in Philly to promote clean air; 81% of those polled give the economy a ‘poor’ rating; 81 year old man set off a bomb in an AL senior citizen CTR; this is the ‘summer of discontent’; splints may ne better than casts; Quran burning in FL on 9–11 may endanger US troops in AFG; money ‘can’ buy happiness;Another volcanic eruption in Indonesia; there is another chance an earthquake may strike New Zealand in the next few days; 6.3 quake shook Fiji; it’s Castro vs. Ahmadinejad; oil is $74.16 per barrel; gold is $1,257.30 an ounce;

…8/31–10: is reality a dream?

2010-09-03T19:40:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…GAQ; arrest made of a person who threatened to kill a Santa Fe judge, and forced a school into lockdown; Johnny Tapia has been reunited with his biological father; CNM has a record enrollment of 30K; Ever Ready gas stations are open for business again; more security for structures in the EMCORE area; Duke City cop bit by a pit bull while serving a warrant; Brad prepared City Chicken; Rio Grande High classrooms are overcrowded, so says fire marshals; Rio Rancho student brought a knife on to a school bus; meth lab busted near Coronado Mall; a proposal to raise NM medical marijuana fees; Obama was in Ft. Bliss, speaking to the troops at Ft. Bliss, TX;
By end of day, no Pseudo Code TES edits; more construction workers on AM R/R; PICU is the ‘spill over’ for GPU; we are in Code Purple; Prelude to Pseudo coding; how will one handle the Daily Baby programs;
Wet in: Twin Cities, Des Moines, Duluth, Wichita, Orlando, New Orleans, KC, Amarillo, Yakima, Little Rock, Omaha, Madison & Chicago; bad weather along parts of I-35; Earl is a CAT 4 storm, with warnings posted from NC to Canada, heading to the US, the storm has 135 mph winds, moving WNW at 13 mph with 931 barometric pressure; the storm has a well defined, has shut down Caribbean airports, and could strike the E Coast by Friday; the hurricane is being affected by both a high & low pressure in that area; temps from the 60s to the 90s;
We have a record supply of flu shots for this upcoming season; MX drug lord captured; 34 million people will travel during this Labor Day weekend; more woman having C-sections; Obama spoke to the nation tonight regarding our pullout from Iraq; bedbugs send a man to the E/R; a good credit score is 660 or better; the DOW ended slightly up;
MX 500 peso will bear the faces of that country’s famous artists; Rihanna has a model of herself in famous British wax museum; MX City: the new, gay honeymoon resort city; the Iraqi war has been the third longest conflict in US history: now, Iraq is ‘in transition’; the beginning of ‘Operation: New Dawn’; oil is $72.93 per barrel; gold is $1,248.30 an ounce;

…9/1–10: personal space
68º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; LANL worker tried to steal two ounces of gold from that complex; N NM man tried to rob an elderly woman in a supermarket’s parking lot; ABQ fraud & wasteful spending are up by 1K%; Obama approval rating in NM has dropped below 50%; saw Jean after work; mother & three children are on the run, trying to escape drug tests; a fellow teenager shot a Rio Rancho student with a B–B gun;
Hell Week, Day One; the powers that be in the PEDS DEPT do not agree that pseudo codes are the way to go; we remain in Code Purple; pseudo codes started appearing by 10A; NM will receive $65 million for education jobs;
Earl is a CAT 3 hurricane, with 125 mph winds, moving NW at 16 mph: watches & warnings from the Outer Banks to ME, and emergency precautions & preparations are going into effect; it may strike the NC shoreline, and Cape Code is getting ready for windy, wet weather; wet in: Chicago, KC, Toledo, INDY, St. Louis, Detroit, OKC, Omaha, Rapid City, Madison & Dallas; wet weather along sections of I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-90; through the day, Earl became a CAT 4 hurricane with 135 mph winds; temps from the 60s to 100s;
CA will not ban the use of plastic bags at stores; marijuana commercials appear on TV; the Tea Party claims victory in the AK SEN race; acid is eating away at abandoned CA mine; the DOW ended way up; Burger King may be for sale; hostage situation at the Discovery Channel HQ in Silver Spring, MD ended with the perpetrator killed by police; CA magician accused of molesting a teenage girl; NYC man survived a 39 story fall; auto sales are plunging;
Middle East peace talks resume; Greece imposes a nationwide smoking ban; the end of ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, by the US; this is the start of Ramadan; oil is $74.23 per barrel; gold is $1,246.30 per ounce; first day of a ‘new life’ for Iraq;

…9/2–10: self confidence
60º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; scammers are targeting job searchers; Duke City baby had a rag in its mouth, and was covered in feces; in Estancia, a man with mental problems is charged with animal abuse: pets were found in the walls & the freezer; CYFD may face budget cuts; Santa Fe city councilor faces ethics violation charges; AM skunk alert at The Beach; IED found near a Wal-Mart, and a middle school, in Los Lunas; woman killed in NE ABQ;
Hell Week, Day Two; Pseudo Code meeting at 9:30A; I will ask Brent to attend it; ‘no confidence’ vote by faculty & staff on UNM ADMIN; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; water problems at UNM;
Wet in: Omaha, Twin Cities, KC, Chicago, INDY, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo & Duluth; bad weather along sections of I-70; Earl has 145 mph winds, moving NNW at 18 mph, with 928 barometric pressure: the storm threatens both Long Island & Fire Island, and mandatory evacuations for everyone along the NC coast; Obama has signed a disaster declaration for that state; storms warnings for the Outer Banks, Cape Cod & its Islands: Westport, Plymouth & Sagamore beaches; MA has already declared a state of emergency; although the storm has weakened during the day, it is still is 400 miles wide…there is also Fiona & Gaston; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More peace talks will be held at the State DEPT in DC; ‘90210’ party on Rodeo Drive; the DOW ended up; another oil/gas platform explosion in the Gulf of MX; should teachers’ performance be posted in a newspaper, or online: a ‘name & shame’ tactic; college students have thousands of dollars in credit card debt; the ‘Discovery Channel’ attacker had explosives attached to his body;
Three dead children found in a garden of a Dutch home; 3K year old temple found in Jordan; oil is $74.47 per barrel; W Nile Virus has killed 16 in Greece; gold is $1,251.50 an ounce; men enjoy a sauna atop Mt. Blanc; male prostitution ring shut down in Spain;

…9/3–10: a calm & peaceful solution
63º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Hobbs athletic coach killed in a motorcycle crash; local movers stole $7K ring from woman; pipe bomb discovered in Rio Rancho APT complex; The Beach is full until November;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; another pseudo code meeting with my MGR; comic book climb; empty AM R/R; now, the ‘geek’ is being asked for help; gave my Director, who has visited Truman Clinic, a copy of PEDS doctors; also gave her a list of PEDS providers; kept entering charges today; UNMH file sharer went down; arrived home slightly after 5P; no more instant messages allowed, nor unnecessary cell phone usage; some do not see the advantage of entering one’s own charges;
Wet in: Boston, NYC, Miami, Norfolk, Detroit, San Antonio, Pittsburgh & Houston; in the AM, Earl is affecting the NC coast as a CAT 2 storm: advisories reach up to Nova Scotia, with rain expected in Richmond, Raleigh & the Tidewater area; the hurricane has 105 mph winds, moving NNE at 18 mph, and heading away from the E Coast; Amtrak service has been cancelled, but the storm, which is being considered as the most well documented, should be a ‘one day event’, so the holiday weekend will not be a ‘wash out’; 25 million people could be affected by this storm; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-35, I-70, I-85 & I-95;
Was the stimulus too small; ; jobless rate at 9.6%; several concourses at Miami INTL Airport were evacuated due to a potential bomb threat, and security scare at a bagger scanning device; bottle of acid thrown at WA woman’s face; the DOW ended up;New economic sanctions will be issued against Iran; oil is $74.60 per barrel; gold is $1,249.20 an ounce; 95 snakes found in luggage at Malaysian Airport; 7.2 quake shook Christchurch, New Zealand; in Iraq, a dark future is better than a darker past; massive glacier is on the move near Greenland; Kia, and the flammable electric wiring systems;

…8/29–10: power to the positive

2010-08-30T17:16:00.001-07:00

62º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…Olde Towne received the most rain yesterday; the Duke City still battling an ‘urban bear problem’; local woman shot at motorcyclist in a case of road rage; female employee stole fireworks to be used against her boss; dead woman found under a bridge in Los Lunas; the NM AG is investigations of alleged wrongdoings in the SECY of State’s office; whooping cough on the rise in NM, especially in Santa Fe CNTY; Martinez leading in NM GOV poll; most people polled felt NM is on ‘the wrong track’; truancy is a problem across the state; seventeen year old was killed near the intersection of Eubank & Candelaria; man used a fake $100 bill to pay at a local Burger King; man had medical problem, his van crashed into NM ABQ restaurant; two major drug busts near Gallup; using art to boost Bernalillo CNTY revenue through the display of art at the Museum of NM;
One person dead at MD high school reunion; five years later, New Orleans’ residents bury the memory of Katrina; 69 vehicles involved in multiple collisions on downtown Phoenix interstates; NATL Guards will be posted at the AZ/MX border; fire at planned Islamic site in the Bible Belt of American;
After 400 years dormant, an Indonesian volcano shows signs of eruption; TS Earl could become a Category 1 hurricane within the next 24 hours; American wasted billions of dollars while rebuilding Iraq;

…8/30–10: holding on to karma
70º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; as the world changes: there was no ABC AM News, and KOAT Morning News began at 4:30A; wrong socks, different shoes; district courthouse in Santa Fe was evacuated due to a threatening call from a cell phone;
Electric outlet shortage in many of the older UNM classrooms; took Central home, arrived about 3:50P; 1:1 meeting with managers at 1P; fixed PC at work to stop prompting;
Wet in: Fargo, Pierre, Panama City, Savannah, Tallahassee, Houston, St. Louis, Billings, ABQ, Chicago, Little Rock, Pensacola, New Orleans, Tampa, Mobile & Bismarck; Hurricane Danielle pounds the E Coast with rip currents; Hurricane Earl has 135 mph winds, heading WNW at 15 mph, threatening that same area latter this week; wet along parts of I-10, I-40, I-55 & I-75; there are still about 100 people who died during Hurricane Katrina, and have yet to be identified;
NYC subway train stopped before striking a passenger who fell on the tracks; rare, calico lobster caught off the ME coast; US birth rate declining; the DOW ended down; final BP oil leak containment has been delayed for several days; mice, maggots & manure found in ‘tainted’ egg farm; AZ man killed five at a B’day party, took his children, then later murdered himself; fire seen from the engine of a US Airways jet as the plane landed at NATL Airport; emerald found in NC farm; the public is afraid to spend;There are many unused & incomplete structures built in Iraq by the US; in Ecuador, a bus crash killed 42 people; nine killed by Russia nursing home blaze; minor tremor rocked Taiwan; plan ‘B’ may rescues Chilean miners earlier than expected; oil is $74.71 per barrel; potential terrorists, who were from Yemen, but legally in the US, were arrested in Amsterdam, after cell phones, box cutters & knives were found in their luggage; less electrical power in Iraq than before the US freed the nation;

…8/23–10: polite politics

2010-08-28T19:39:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two people found dead in a burnt mobile home in SW ABQ; the Duke City is growing in population along its W side; solar panels will be installed on SunPort parking garages; someone stole a hot air balloon from a trailer; PM T’storm above The Beach; hit & run at Montgomery & Moon; Workforce Solutions will now use Wells Fargo as the bank to issue their debit cards; SCHOTT has developed the largest rooftop solar array panel;
Another day with key people on vacation; first day of school at UNM; very crowded PM R/R;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Boston, NYC, Tampa, Bismarck, ABQ, Denver, Flagstaff, Buffalo, Providence, Hartford, Miami, Albany, DC, Pittsburgh, Erie, New Orleans & Orlando; rainy weather for parts of I-10, I-90, I-93 & I-95; TS Danielle has 60 mph winds, moving WNW at 14 mph; floods in Philly; temps from the 60s to the 100s
The $578 million dollar school opens in CA; another plane crash in SW AK; FDA ‘scrambling’ for answers to the tainted egg crisis; airport security officers caught smuggling drugs & weapons; NYC dog fashion show, with canine clothing costing $3K; the Grand Canyon is deteriorating, thanks to pollution, caused by man; the DOW ended down; fire in a Long Island R/R switching station delayed commuters; sinkhole in GA swallowed a car wash & restaurant; teens send 3K texts per month; Americans own 610 million credit cards, carrying the highest interest rate in nearly a decade, 14.9%, football players coming down with Compartment Syndrome, some requiring surgery; judge has halted funds for embryonic stem cell research;
After being trapped for two weeks, thirty-three Chilean miners were located, but they may not be rescued until late 2010, or early 2011…they are trapped 2,258 feet below the surface, in a 600 sq. ft. room, with food supplies, 95º temps, and 95% humidity; Iran displayed its ‘ambassador of death’; Kudzu strain may cure alcohol or cocaine addiction; oil is $72.90 per barrel; gold is $1,226.90 an ounce; midriff exposure by Chinese men during hot days is making the country’s leaders upset, bad for ‘public image’;

…8/24–10: desires, and dreams
71º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; local family of eight without power for weeks; NM ranks as the number one state per capita in lightning strike deaths; three NM stores are recalling tainted eggs; local child had to hold a rock as punishment: if he dropped it, he was slapped with a belt; no schedule yet from some S Valley students; overnight rain at The Beach;
The last day of my ‘vacation’; downtown detour on AM R/R; we are in Code Purple; very crowded PM R/R; no PSUP Admits; housekeeper was out for five weeks, she gave me a hug;
Wet in: Boston, Tampa, Philly, Raleigh, JAX, OKC, Houston, Tucson, Santa Fe, Des Moines, KC, Wichita, Twin Cities, Phoenix, DC & Richmond; Hurricane Danielle has 100 mph winds, moving W at 20 mph; microburst in TX yesterday; wet along sections of I-4, I-35, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
Alligator seen swimming in the Chicago River; FDA is overwhelmed to inspect all farms; patients exposed to unnecessary radiation during diagnostic testing; today is NATL Waffle Day; Sea World faces a hefty $75K fine; salmonella can last four days on a clean counter; new homes sales have fallen; the median home price in America is $182,600; mouse virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; the DOW ended down; investigation of exploding fuel tanks in three million 1993-2004 Jeep Cherokees; 380K lbs. of Wal-Mart deli meat recalled;
Large hail, the size of Ping-Pong balls fell in Poland; Jimmy Carter on humanitarian mission in N Korea; 3–D mapping of the Titanic begins; plane crashed in the Katmandu region, near Mt. Everest; only 50K US troops remain in Iraq; artistic manhole covers across Japan; shock a potato to make it healthier; a sixty mile traffic backup in China that could last for weeks; there are survivors after a plane crashed in NE China; oil is $71.66 per gallon; gold is $1,231.80 an ounce;

…8/25–10: dreams, and destinies
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad can now roll over on his surgery side; Rio Rancho sewage lines broke during recent rainfall, flooding roads; Lowe’s will not add a new store in SW ABQ; this past weekend, a robbery at the Range Café on Menaul; early AM stabbing at Duke City party; NM GOV in Cuba for ‘trade talks’; Farmington officials explode illegal drugs; I saw a roach in the APT this AM, told Nancy; I saw Jean this PM; 21 minute crime spree across ABQ: three people were robbed, two arrests were made; Farmington woman took a nap, while her children were locked in a hot vehicle; NM has run out of its stimulus money;
Not a typical summer, with Code Purple on a daily basis; no CTI Admits; no one from my ‘team’ has told me about a MGR leaving; we remain in Code People;
NM storms mentioned on ANC AM News, ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Boston, Tampa, Cleveland, Dallas, Flagstaff, NYC, Providence, Erie, Miami & Savannah; chance of rain along areas of I-75, I-90 & I-95; floods in AZ & FL; wildfires in OR, CA, UT & AZ; Danielle now has 85 mph winds, moving WNW at 17 mph; San Fran heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Thief caught in the act at the US Capitol, thanks to a photo taken by a tourist; NYC cab driver had his throat slashed after a passenger asked if he was Muslim; 25K pot plants found on CA farm; credit card debt at its lowest in eight years; McCain won in AZ primary; a constitutional conservative won the AK primaries; the DOW ended up, but the economy is on shaky grounds; ‘retro soul’ music?;
Fire tornado sighted in Brazil; it make take three years to undo damage caused by PAK floods; man had a bullet in his head under the skin for five years; fat keyboards for Sumo wrestlers; fifty people survived plane crash in China; Asian markets fell, due to the US housing slump; Somalia is recruiting Americans to plan domestic terrorist attacks; Australian teacher gave an assignment to his student: plan a terrorist attack; oil is $72.20 per barrel; gold is $1,239.50 an ounce;

…8/26–10: is reality possible?
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; eleven children found in ABQ with little food, they have been attending school; may cost $2 million to repair Cumbres & Toltec trestle; two Red Light Cameras will be installed in Rio Rancho; waterline break in the S Valley has been repaired; today is Jean’s B’day; another AM downtown detour; NM jobless rate at 8.2%; picture of a praying mantis drawn by a NM child will appear on the cover of Highlights magazine;
Continue catching up; suddenly, no music; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; the HSC lost pre-2005 records in recent downtown blaze;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: JAX, Raleigh, ATL, Miami, Orlando & DC; there is Hurricane Danielle with 105 mph winds, followed by TS Earl & Fiona following them; CA wildfires & heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Sex & controversy make money…not education; RNC chairman admits he is gay; homeless man started fire which destroyed several homes; hate crime charges against NYC cab driver attack; Buffalo killer turned himself in; the cost of ‘senior citizen medications’ keeps going up; man had to be pulled out of a CA construction hole; are MS oysters safe; tires of a JetBlue plane explode when landing; faith vs. fear: NYC cab driver vs. honor student, incident has been labeled as a ’hate crime’ many INS plans do not provide proper pediatric care; the DOW ended down; more teen nerds needed by the US GOVT to stop foreign computer hackers; parts of the Ninth Precinct in New Orleans are unchanged, home look like it has been only a day after Katrina struck, when it was actually five years ago this weekend; 52% of Americans polled support gay marriages;
Chilean miners have been told they will remain underground for several months; will US aid to PAK help tensions between the two countries; Iraqi insurgents attacking that country’s security forces; red alert issued for Columbian volcano; gold is $1,235.90 per barrel;

…8/27–10: place to place places
63º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; bear caught in Four Hills area; NM SECY of State accused of wrongdoings, questioned by the FBI; car crash on Central and San Pedro resulted in a water main burst; ten month old fell out of an SUV, was then struck & killed by his mother, who was driving the vehicle; EBT: electronic benefit cards which can be used at NM Farmers Markets; Rio Grande High does not need another new principal;
9:30 meeting; left at 12:30P…ate at Owl Café; then climb for comics; is the pseudo code method actually losing money; PEDS has the most duties; people not telling the whole truth to the people above them;
ABQ storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Orlando, New Orleans, SLC, Flagstaff, Mobile, Tampa, Tallahassee & Miami; five years ago, Katrina, the meteorological monster, rearranged the Gulf Coast, flooded 80% of New Orleans: it was the first time a mandatory evacuation had been issued, and the storm killed 18K people; Danielle has winds from 120–135 mph; Earl has 45 mph winds; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Blockbuster Video may file for bankruptcy; the DOW is at its lowest since early July; students who are bullied, a term which has taken on a more violent meaning, are usually ignored by teachers; the DOW ended up; double dip decline in the US economy, as progress starts to slow down, and prepares for a ‘unique & painful’ recovery; American Airlines has been fined $24 million dollars;
Jimmy Carter secured the release of an American in N Korea; the 3-D photos may reveal why the Titanic sunk; three Canadians arrested in that country on terrorist charges; message was broadcast by mistake onboard a British Airlines plane that it was about to crash in the sea; cameras show the trapped miners; artificial corneas can potentially grow eye cells;

…8/28–10: put a little fun in your life
68º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…Santa Fe car thefts up 28%; an enrollment increase at the NM Military Academy; two people in NM have tested positive for the W Nile Virus; Volcano Vista student had an unloaded gun in his car, said he was going to shoot or stab someone; Rio Grande High students will not have a schedule until 9/7/10; gas explosion in N NM injured several people; Bernalillo CNTY workers will receive a 2% pay increase; CNM opens its Rio Rancho campus; started cleaning my closet: so far, it’s been manageable; severe T’storm, heavy downpours & leaks at The Beach; Duke City Rave party busted for having too many people;
NC killed by a real one, while waiting to see the ‘ghost train’; man stole more than $25K worth of eyeglass frames; E Coast may see rip tides from Hurricane Danielle; riots at Folsom State prison in CA; during the past year, many people polled have said they have admitted driving while drunk; the end of the ‘big home’ era; road rage turned deadly on CA highway;Mexicana Airlines has shut down its operations, one of three that have done so today; baby tiger found in suitcase: its purpose was to be smuggled, and then sold; 5.9 earthquake shook Iran;

…8/18–10: chasing reality

2010-08-22T17:02:00.001-07:00

72º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s surgery is improving; man breaks into Santa Fe brewery, steals a TV, and drinks Dr. Pepper; ABQ police shoot & kill a man near Del Norte High; Duke City principals will be relocated to schools that can maximize their abilities; ABQ ‘peeping Tom’ went into ladies’ restroom, looked under women’s dresses; collision at Zuni & San Mateo; local man stole money from the place he used to work, claiming it was for unpaid Annual Leave; one in eight ABQ children do not have the correct closing to attend school; soldier from ABQ was killed in AFG;
I hope to get more notes to complete PICU billing sheets; man in wheelchair on AM R/R; expect more delays on Central near UNM; phone service was ‘scratchy’ today;
Wet in: Philly, DC, Baltimore, Duluth, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, San Antonio, Flagstaff, SLC, Chicago, INDY, OKC, Dallas, Roanoke, Richmond, Atlantic City, Orlando & Fargo; ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; a haboob near Phoenix yesterday; bad weather along parts of I-40, I-44 & I-55; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Could 3.2 million gallons of oil still be in the Gulf of MX water, a residual located deep below the surface, posing a threat to plankton; the first dog ‘water park’, located in CA; the DOW ended slightly up; mother slapped her child, during a flight that was en route from Dallas to ABQ; to save money, and keep stockholders rich, drug companies are selling incorrect medicine to treat ailments; bed bugs force the temporary closure of NYC theaters; small plane violated Air Force One airspace over Seattle; there are now 228 tainted eggs, they have sickened 300 people, and are caused by sick hens: the symptoms may have a three day incubation period; Obama poll numbers keep dropping; ‘tainted’ results from NC crime lab, some people have been convicted and are in jail because of their findings;
More floods occurring around the world: now, in MX & China; UN asks the global community to help PAK; man’s buttock got him stuck in a window while trying to burglarize a home in England; oil is $75.59 per barrel; gold is $1,229.70 per ounce; US military is starting to pull out of Iraq;

…8/19–10: energetic truth
72º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; school crossing guards missing on the first day of school in ABQ; deputy crashed into drainage ditch; the historic First Baptist Church goes up in flames, it was to possibly be renovated to become a school; first gubernatorial debate will be held tonight; truck end up in a ditch near Tingley Beach; three police cars parked opposite the Tingle R/R bus stop; more violence in the workplace, stemming from domestic issues;
UNM PRES has an abdominal tumor; UNMH is the most ‘wired’; got a call from Admitting Office, there were Coders there waiting to be trained; no CTI or PICU Admits; police outside UNMH;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Bismarck, the Twin Cities, Raleigh, Santa Fe, Houston, Denver, Charlotte, Asheville, Roanoke, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville, ATL, Houston & Orlando; yesterday, more rain & floods for DC; temps from 60s to 100s;
American Airlines adds another fee, based on seat location in the plane; two passengers were removed from a plane in handcuffs; 20% of those polled think Obama is Muslim; use Tai Chi to relieve migraine headaches; now, there are 380 million tainted eggs; no more timeline for Gulf cleanup: new BP mediator will handle claim reimbursement; more layoffs: 500K people filed jobless claims last week; OH bank robber left his wallet at the scene of the crime; now, 2K have been sickened by tainted eggs; the DOW ended down; economic growth is weakening;
PAK floods may not recede until late August; final US combat troops are leaving Iraq, heading to Kuwait: but 50K brigades will remain as ‘supportive’ forces; wing fell off plane during Argentine air show, the pilot did survive; girdles for men; to increase teen attendance in church, a priest rode a skateboard; is the moon shrinking in size; Portugal allows same-sex marriages; Operation: Iraqi Freedom is over: Operation: New Dawn has begun; oil is $74.15 per barrel; gold is $1,233.80 an ounce;

…8/20–10: over the weather
70º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM GOV candidates battle over education issues, with neither actually ‘winning’ the debate; racy adds found in Clovis piñata; Peralta mayor accused of stalking a woman;
Left at 11A, ate at Saggio’s; people will learn that I am a nice person;
NM storms, ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; another CA wildfire; wet in: Orlando, KC, Des Moines, Madison, Twin Cities, Omaha, New Orleans, JAX, ATL, St. Louis, Little Rock, Green Bay, Chicago, Miami, Wichita, Duluth, Pensacola & Houston; rain along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-70; CO mudslides; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More people withdrawing from their retirement or 401 [k] accounts; power outages across S MI; ‘less oil’ is coming ashore, and numbers ‘refined’ on how much has spilled into the Gulf of MX; the final escaped AZ inmate caught in an AZ campground near the NM border; a 22 mile ‘invisible’ plume of oil still remains in the Gulf of MX; second IA farm has tainted eggs; HIV transmitted by semen is different than when the virus is in blood; police officer dragged by a suspect’s vehicle on a NH interstate; the DOW ended down; malnourished boy found in the attic of a KC home;
In China, two cars of a passenger train plummet into the water as support columns collapse; Iran could build a nuclear weapon within one year; woman claims to have an electromagnetic body shield; huge S American rats invade estate;

…8/21–10: in silence, there is strength
66º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…three year old girl wanders into the street, ends up the victim of a hit & run in SE ABQ; man slightly injured when struck by a Rail Runner; man escapes being caught by the police after he tried to kill roommates with explosives [firebomb] & a blowtorch; a welfare check turns up weapons, ammo & drugs at a local doctor’s home, which also contained rice human feces; Duke City Film Festival this weekend; mother accused of giving narcotics to her sick child; Valencia CNTY woman ticketed for driving too slow, given a $70 fine; disaster declarations declared by NM GOV in N counties, and parts of the Navajo Nation; Santa Fe Indian Market is being held this weekend; trolley ride around the Duke City to view locations where films & TV movies have been made; NM Green Chie Festival is being held in Red River;
So far, 118 US banks have failed during 2010: added to the list are savings institutions in CA, IL, FL & VA; TX child dies after been left in a hot SUV for over two hours; CA is due for another big quake; bedbugs found in the Empire State BLDG; new overdraft fees for debit cards; half a billion eggs have been declared ‘tainted’; there are more people being tested to determine if they have HIV;
Earthworms pull pollutants from the soil; $50 million Van Gogh painting stolen; one person died after gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in Rio;

…8/22–10: someday, my prints will arrive
74º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…INTEL owes Sandoval CNTY $100K in fines, for failing to meet hiring requiring, employing people from outside NM; ‘pole climbing rodeo’ held yesterday in NM; I-40W was shut down by an accident last night near UNIV; man stole prescription pad so he could write order controlled medications for his friends; last night, Neil Patrick Harris won two Emmys; money has been given for a forest restoration project in the Jemez MTN; Rio Rancho school food preparers may go on strike; man threatened to steal a dirt bike, while a child was on it…he failed; suspicious church fire in Farmington;
Two men charged with selling pot via a drive through window, at a store located near a daycare CTR; when will billet trains arrive in the US; America still has a 1950s work policy: moms make less than money than single women, and females still make less money than men; ‘geo tagging’ on digital photos can give thieves the location of a person’s home; female officer now leads a Norfolk naval station; more controversy about the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque;Will camel milk become the latest rage?; we now have a TS Frank; no injuries were reported after a 5.7 quake shook the islands off the coast of W Greece; shootout at the US/MX border, near El Paso; Iran revealed its deadly unmanned bomber; more flooding in China & N Korea;

…8/14–10: live in harmony with nature

2010-08-17T17:24:00.001-07:00

70º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…no gas or hot water at Mountain View APT complex in the Duke City, it also had no working fire extinguishers, and toxic carbon monoxide levels for weeks; Santa Fe is holding a ‘shred fest today, for people who want to get rid of old, important documents; twelve arrested in local prostitute ring; Olde Towne ABQ is having a Salsa Festival today; Brad prepared Liver & Onions; Bernalillo CNTY sheriff faced with a ‘no confidence’ vote; illegal immigrants are getting driver’s licenses in NM; Rio Arriba trash bills are piling up; higher education ‘town hall’ meetings will be held across NM;
The BP well is not completely plugged; unruly passenger forced a flight heading to the Dominican Republic to make an emergency landing at Dulles INTL Airport; Patriots won their first pre-season game; eight people shot outside a Buffalo restaurant, four reportedly killed; another judge says the banning of same–sex marriages is unconstitutional; Obama supports the building of a mosque near Ground Zero; Dr. Laura said the “N” word several times during a radio talk show; 110 banks in the US have closed, the latest was in IL; underground transformer fire forces the evacuation of two DC hotels;
The sagebrush around Sydney could destroy the city…all it would take is one fire; deadly riots across Iraq;

…8/15–10: in unity, there is victory
76º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…enjoyed a walk along Tingley Drive, and then to K-Mart; woman tried to set several units in her complex on fire; more casinos to be built on the Navajo Nation; next ABQ police academy training will begin in November, 2010; online system to track crime in ABQ & Santa Fe; Highpointe Solutions Veteran’s CTR needs $160K, or faces foreclosure; the Equine Emergency Fund to help feed horses that belong to NM residents who are have lost their jobs; a Laguna Pueblo artist has become a well-known photographer;
The typical, modern ‘American family’ now consists of more single, divorced [and remarried], with new step-parents & children from several homes, now called ‘multi-families’; remaining escaped inmate last seen in Billings, MT; diabetes can lead to blindness; anti-bullying summit was held in DC; off road race crash in CA killed eight people; the ‘safest’ weather conditions are in S CA;
20% of PAK is flooded: who will rescue the stranded citizens, the US or the insurgents;

…8/16–10: in time, there is equality
68º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; Los Lunas man firing a gun was shot by a local police officer; ride ABQ buses for free by displaying Rail Runner tickets; will the Duke City public school system purchase a church, in order to transform it into a Magnet School; saw Jean today; hailstorm caused power outages in Roswell;
UNM record enrollment and decreased funding means larger classes; still no notes from one provider; was one of our Coders missing;
Wet in: Denver, DC, NYC, New Orleans, Buffalo, Albany, Boston, Savannah, Charlotte, Mobile, Rapid City, OKC, Pensacola, ABQ, Flagstaff, Syracuse, Hartford, New Bedford, Tallahassee, Houston, Philly, ATL, Roanoke & Orlando; bad weather along sections of I-81, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Prescriptions by doctors: teach children how to swim; giant lobster caught of the FL coast; bleach spill shut down Times SQ; Gulf shrimp season starts; gay marriages in CA are put on hold again; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.77 per gallon; the bodies of two children for found inside a car submerged in a SC river; NH man returns an $11K ring he stole, plus he turned himself into the police; an increase in hatred against Muslims across the country: most Americans oppose the construction of an Islamic CTR near Ground Zero, although existing sex stores in that same area are OK; drug recalls on the rise; the DOW ended slightly down; four year old AZ boy has been located; Willard Hotel fire in DC yesterday;
PAK floods have affected twenty million people, and the situation keeps getting worse; gold is $1,224.50 per ounce; Japanese economy may be slowing down, that country is no longer the second place global leader, it has been replaced by China; oil is $75.41 per barrel; bomb threat shut down the shrine at Lourdes, France for five hours; Australia has about 20 million people; Venice has its first female gondolier; plane broke into three pieces while landing on San Andres Island, only one person died, and the death was from a heart attack;

…8/17–10: time tells
64º in ABQ; 96% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight T’storms at The Beach; man walking through ABQ firing a shotgun; Manzano school soccer fields vandalized; late night SWAT situation at Truth or Consequences ended peacefully; police arrest suspects in a PM drive by shooting in SW ABQ; school bus stops have been eliminated, forcing students to cross dangerous intersections;
Corrections from Nephrology; I now have a second monitor;
Wet in: New Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi, KC, JAX, ATL, Raleigh, DC, Wichita, Des Moines, Omaha Lake Charles [Louisiana], Bismarck, ABQ, Tucson, Baton Rouge, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Tulsa, Fargo & Knoxville; NM storms & ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; wet weather along sections of I-10, I-35 & I-75; the Gulf low pressure that will not go away; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
$14K jobs, $1.3 billion generated by the Gulf shrimp industry; CO boy survived after being struck by lightning; Robert Gates will leave the Pentagon during 2011; Red Velvet Fried Chicken being served in San Fran; Salmonella found in IA eggs; CA same-sex ceremonies are delayed until December; late mortgage payments on the rise again; 20% of teens suffer from hearing loss; heat illness cost a worker his job; the DOW ended up; woman threw a pie in the face of a US SEN from MI; ‘experts’ say over 70% of the Gulf oil remains in the water, lower than the depths where people have been exploring; only the cream of the crop can get house mortgages, or refinance their homes; The Grand Prix of Green Clean express race that will travel around the world, but not produce any carbon emissions; China prepares for ‘electronic warfare’; for now, MX City same-sex couples will be allowed to adopt children; Last night, YouTube would not allow me to subscribe to other websites; oil is $76.27 per barrel; gold is $1,226.60 an ounce; another violent day in Iraq, suicide bomber had nails contained in his explosives;

…8/13–10: peaceful peace

2010-08-13T17:23:00.001-07:00

67º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…Sandia Labs testing bombs; Brad’s regular doctor’s visit; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s diabetic risk has been lowered; fewer students are graduating from NM higher education universities & colleges; Sandoval CNTY police officer was pulled over after he was caught speeding at a high risk construction zone on I-25;
Pseudo code meeting at 9:30 at Bradbury: will not start until after the August Closing; have to be trained on creating lists; no PICU Admits; pipe leak on top of the HSC roof flooded the plants on ground level; we are in Code Purple; left at 12:30P;
ABQ temps & NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Twin Cities, JAX, Baltimore, KC, Asheville, Des Moines, Yellowstone, Pittsburgh, Fargo, Duluth, Omaha, Wichita & Orlando; there is no drinkable water in parts of IA, as rain keeps falling, and water mains keep breaking; wild weather in DC, as creeks flooded during yesterday’s rush hour: storms damaged the White House lawn & fence; wet weather along sections of I-35; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
No AC in INDY schools; CA man attached camera to his surfboard, then filmed a shark swimming near him; serial killer finally caught in ATL: had stabbed eighteen people, killing five of them in MI, OH & VA; bill will allow more money for border security; same-sex marriages get the green light in CA; the DOW ended down; teens killed in high-speed crash on I-75 in OH; are smoothies made in the US linked to typhoid outbreaks; the First Family will go on a ‘working vacation’ in FL; GM gets another new CEO, the fourth in 18 months;The glass bottom hot air balloon; rain finally fell in Moscow; more US military leaks could appear online; Iran nuclear reactor is online; 7.2 quake near the Marianas Islands;

…8/12–10: think of today as a ‘present’

2010-08-12T16:54:00.000-07:00

76º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad’s doctor visit for his surgery; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; sexual assault at Sandia High; seventeen year old boy has broken into six Duke City schools; PM T’storms across ABQ; Brad’s operation is improving; rental home in ABQ gets red tagged; we no longer crave Chinese food;
Trying to get my own work done; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: New Orleans, Fargo, Syracuse, Roanoke, JAX, Philly, Buffalo, Mobile, Denver, Houston, Billings, Baltimore, DC, Duluth & Orlando; NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; floods across IA, with fifty of its counties are underwater; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-40, I-64 & I-81; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Denny’s meals are bad for your health; ‘granddad bandit’, who committed 25 robberies in thirteen states, has been arrested; foreclosures on the rise again, nearly one in every 400 homes; relief well is now fifty feet from the broken pipe, but BP has cancelled or rejected orders for booms, saying the items do not meet their quality standards; new salad mix recall due to contamination; a San Fran judge allows same-sex marriages to resume in CA, starting next week; the DOW ended down; jobless claims on the rise; high levels of lead in ‘bounce houses’; one in twelve babies born in the US are from mothers who are illegal immigrants;Jellyfish are attacking Spanish beachgoers; Asian stocks fear another global recession; another ‘superbug’ working its way from India & PAK, to Britain, Canada & the US; global changes: the warmest & the wettest weather has been reported; old is $76.17 a barrel; gold is $1,214.80 an ounce; wildfires in Portugal; 6.9 quake rocked Ecuador;

…8/11–10: indulge your cravings

2010-08-11T15:52:00.000-07:00

71º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; the sound of a motorcycle at The Beach in the early AM hours; five year old tested positive for methadone; ABQ has a new school for the deaf; NM teachers having a bake sale to raise money; my unofficial last chat with Jean; Brad’s Chiro visit; Rio Rancho schools start tomorrow; two ABQ teens arrested for smuggling pot from MX to NM; two women arrested for growing marijuana in their NE Duke City home; oil leaked from a truck near the Rio Grande;
Yesterday, there were no buses to be found to get home; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: Quad Cities, Tampa, NYC, St. Louis, Yellowstone, Green Bay, Madison, Chicago, INDY, New Orleans, Baltimore, Pensacola, Miami & Detroit; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-40, I-70 & I-95; TD five in the Gulf of MX: 35 mph winds, moving NW at 6 mph; NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
There have been 950 plane crashes in AK over the past decade, it is the most common vehicle for that state, but took the life of a former, prominent SEN: fog & rugged terrain also hampered a safe landing, four people survived, but not the man who had served AK for forty years; an evolving still life art on a road in ME; San Fran parking meters will accept credit cards; copter crashed while trying to rescue stranded tourists in AK, no one onboard was seriously hurt; angry customer attacked fast food take out window when she was told they were not serving chicken nuggets yet; when road rage takes to the sky: many people support the frustrated flight attendant who was struck by a passenger, then screamed at the people on the plane via the intercom, and finally made a grand exit on an emergency slide; the third escaped AZ prisoner may be in W MT or Canada…or, AR?; the DOW ended way down; ER staff afraid of being attacked by patients; baby was born at 11:12 on 8/9//10; man had a pea plant growing in his lungs;

Second spacewalk scheduled to repair the INTL Space Station; 6.0 quake shook Vanuatu; gold is $1,197.50 an ounce; oil is $78.49 per barrel; massive floods across PAK;

…8/9–10: the digital pad

2010-08-10T17:04:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Nutrition Visit; 90% of NM school budgets are for salaries; Durango dentist died in AFG attack; a Valencia CNTY woman was abducted, beaten, robbed, and stripped of her clothing; car crash ruptured gas main in the Duke City; several movies are bring filmed across ABQ;
UNM has a professor shortage; PEDS Coding restructures meeting this AM [cancelled], billing sheets returned last Friday, rescheduled to this Friday; Bruce does not know about pseudo-codes; no new monitor yet; nobody noticed that I had not signed in last Wednesday;
Wet in: Des Moines, Green Bay, Chicago, Miami, Rapid City, Boston, Buffalo, Orlando, Billings, New Orleans, Little Rock, Quad Cities, Denver, ABQ, Milwaukee, KC, Twin Cities, Omaha, Erie, NYC & Detroit; TS Colin, fading away but TS Estelle grows in the Pacific; bad weather along sections of I-10, I-35, I-80, I-90 & I-94; weekend twisters in the Great Plains & FL; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Fourteen year old started CA wildfire just N of Los Angeles; PA has wine vending machines; the $25K pudding in a NYC pastry shop; the House returns to the Hill; actress Patricia Neal has died from lung cancer at the age of 84; the NM murders, linked to AZ inmates [who may be in Yellowstone NATL Park] still makes world news, one of the men was captured in WY, there is now an INTL manhunt for the remaining prisoner, and his female accomplice ; over 25 million Americans are either working part-time, or unemployed; one million pounds of ground beef recalled, could contain E Coli; the DOW ended up; states looking to casinos for added revenue; woman has been battling a flesh eating disease for five years; now, an environmental recovery continues at the Gulf oil spill; pet food may contain salmonella; the US is sinking in the ranks of how many graduate from college: common educational standards are needed;
Russian fires have killed at least fifty people; Queen Latifah has come out of the closet; Honda is recalling some Accord & Civic models; another outside repair needed to the INTL Space Station; man in China arrested after jumping in front of a train, then laying flat after it passed over him; it was 65 years ago when bombs dropped on Nagasaki; oil is $81.11 per barrel; gold is $1,200.70 an ounce; ferry sank off E Indonesia; man walks the entire length of the Amazon River;

…8/10–10: pleasing words
70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; health inspector scams at ABQ restaurants; murder suspect bonded out of Duke City prison; youngsters in vehicles whose drivers were charged with road rage, the chase covered much of ABQ, those adults face child abuse charges; Sunflower Market has better bran muffins than Trader Joe’s; charity fundraiser tonight to benefit the Rio Grande Zoo & BioPark;
I have a different attitude towards work; it’s Duran Duran Day at the PEDS Clinic; during the PM, servers across the UNIV & HOSP started crashing; could not access my work calendar, not even with Brent’s help; the wards were full today; children abandoned at the PEDS Clinic…for various reasons, per the adult’s several stories;
Wet in: NYC, Miami, Fargo, Chicago, Des Moines, Butte, JAX, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Bismarck, Roswell [NM], the Fl Keys, the Twin Cities, Boston, Albany, St. Louis, CO Springs, Sioux Falls, Orlando, Baton Rouge & Denver; this past weekend, hail fell on Lake Tahoe, NV; bad weather along sections of I-4, I-10, I-35, I-65 & I-90; eighteen states under extreme heat advisories; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
The Pentagon may cut 5K jobs; BP has spent $6.1 billion to clean the Gulf of MX; four states are holding their primaries today; the final fugitive may be in Glacier NATL Park, MT; American charged with selling military secrets to China; tourists stuck on AK glacier; the House has passed a jobs bill; the DOW ended down; NC Krispy Kreme MGR put the day’s receipts into a doughnut box, that was accidentally used by a clerk, and given to a customer…who is now $5K richer; storms shut down the Gulf oil drilling; the US recovery may be slowing down;Cliff Diving Contests in Italy; oil is $79.86 per barrel; robot who display emotions of a one year old child, and can bond with a human; small tsunami after 7.5 quake shook Vanuatu; gold is $1,196.20 an ounce; YouTube problems again; oil spill off the W coast of India after two ships collided;

…8/4–10: humorous interlude

2010-08-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…overnight rain at The Beach; I am a VJ; Los Alamos father charged with abuse after hitting his child with a fly swatter; a tornado may have touched ground near Chinle, three earthen dams in that area have broken;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; picked up free UNM bus pass;
The Weather Channel has been ‘frozen’ for nearly an hour, just showing the same scene; wet in NYC, DC & Charlotte; mandatory evacuation of the area from Chinle to Many Farms, especially Canyon de Chelly NATL Park in AZ; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Malicious computer code is being created to access our aging power plants, in order to open & close security doors, and pollutes water supplies; there are six employee homicides per month: all that is needed is a man with a grudge, and a gun, who reached his breaking point; was the same–sex marriage ban overturned in CA…yes!; the static kill is currently working; though it may take years, a mosque will be built near Ground Zero in NYC, why not build it a few blocks away from the 9– 11 site; Three Lakes, WI is the ‘best’ town in America; was the CT killer a thief, or a victim of racial discrimination; the DOW ended up; Obama turned 49 today; boy is missing from his AZ home; there are 50 million gun owners, and there are these types of weapons in about half the households in the US: people want to bear arms in public, and put the control in their hands, not the GOVT; malnutrition could cause asthma; the safety of supplemental vitamins has not been approved by the FDA; Alex Rodriguez hit home run number 600! while Prop Eight has been considered unconstitutional, gays & lesbians cannot get married in CA; AZ sheriff has a bounty on his head from a MX drug cartel leader; one person killed when a plane slammed into a warehouse near Phoenix; some billionaires want to give half of their money to charity;
Somewhere, there is an ice toilet; another school in China has been a victim of a knife attack, the person killed three students and a teacher; Chinese buses are built such that cars can drive under them; thick smog blankets Moscow; oil is $82.55 per barrel; gold is $1,193.70 per ounce; did someone try to kill the Iran leader;

…8/5–10: a reality relationship
73º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…lightning in the AM sky; local puppy thief is in custody; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; the Duke City wants to limit the distance that officers can drive police cars to their homes, based on how far they live from the ‘Big I’; power outage at Second & Montano; boy shot & killed in Roswell; PM severe storm, complete with hail & downpours, got splashed on Central, which cleaned the dirt off my pants; minor power outage at The Beach; solar companies are leaving NM, laying off workers, or backing off business contracts to build in this state; one diverted flight per day lands at SunPort; we had a tiny power outage at The Beach; can lesbians who were one of the few couples who got married in NM, now get a divorce; trapped in a house under construction for an hour; borrowed an umbrella from a family on NY AVE;
now, what is Step Two; all billing sheets taken away, and everything gets pseudo coded until we can fill in the blanks; I do have hundreds of hours of Sick Leave; people don’t know the jobs I do, they’re too busy rushing off to their meetings; no CTI Admits;
Wet weather for: Richmond, Denver, NYC, DC, Gainesville [FL], Nashville, St. Louis, ABQ, OKC, Amarillo, Albany & along the Outer Banks; extreme heat evaporating pesticides; more roads buckling from the high temps; TX power grid pushed to its limit; the heat wave covers twenty states; Memphis has seen several days in the 100s; ABQ high temp mentioned on the ABC AM News;
One step closer to ‘killing’ the oil well; boy attempts to become the Grand Master Champion of Tetris; man called 911 so he could get a ride to a liquor store; will same–sex marriages become a win for the justice system, or showdown at the US Supreme Court: teachers jobs may be saved by a bill working its way through Congress; man lit a match on a cross-country flight, then ran to the bathroom, the plane was diverted to ABQ, which prompted an FBI investigation; the DOW ended down; fourteen American accused of having ties to al Qaeda; jobless claims are up; collision on I-44 in MO with an SUV, semi & two school buses; Kagan has been voted as the newest US Supreme Court judge; 100K people in DC are in the dark tonight; no end in sight for cleaning up after the oil spill;
Man threw a brick into a washing machine, and it kept working; are British eating beef from cloned cows?;

…8/6–10: major, positive outlook
64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…my doctor visit at 11:30A; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; NM tax free weekend on school supplies; plane crashed in N NM; charred remains found on a ranch near Santa Rosa; more storms & flash flood warnings for NM this weekend; forgot to lock the door last night; more police cars will be parked at local substations; more people stealing construction tools, and selling them to pawn shops; more border agents for S NM;
Left at 11A; so far, I have not angered MGMT; people on the rush to other meetings; empty AM R/R; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: Myrtle, Beach, Charlotte, ATL, Billings, Tampa, Memphis, Cheyenne, Tucson, Nashville, JAX, Little Rock, Miami, New Orleans & Orlando; bad weathers along sections of I-10, I-20 & I-95; GW Parkway in Alexandria shut down after storms caused trees & power poles to fall onto the road; TS Colin has 45 mph winds, moving NW at 14 mph; Richmond floods; NM storms & ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
BP has finished the cement process; but will the company sell its Gulf oil rights, CT killer says he was racially motivated, and had smuggled guns in his lunch box; US jobless rate rose to 9.6%; Amtrak services delayed S of DC because of a coal train derailment in VA; the DOW ended down; is the judge who overruled Prop 8 a homosexual; two adults & two children found dead in suburban DC home; health inspectors shut down OR girl’s lemonade stand, then apologized for their actions; the CA GOV wants to allow gay marriages in his state; Star Trek convention in ‘the’ Las Vegas;
65 years ago, atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima: posting comments problems on YouTube; fires in Russia could spread radioactive remnants from Chernobyl; US, Britain & France attended the memorial ceremony;

…8/7–10: help heal your heart
66º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…minor power ‘blip’ last night; an ABQ man was shot in the face on Friday; Disney movie being filmed in NM; crime in Olde Towne ABQ is on the rise; disease carrying feral hogs are roaming the Rio Grande River Valley; the economy is good at NM Science & Tech Park; and, amazingly, my blood pressure was normal; bomb scare at the FED BLDG on Fifth & Gold, but no one inside was informed what was happening; Los Alamos pastor accused of distributing child porn; three car crash on I-25 near the Hard Rock Casino; scammers are targeting the unemployed in ABQ, mailing them fake money orders to cash; fewer sites are searching for oil & natural gas in NM; Brad has resumed painting; a Goa video made for me by one of my online friends; man stabbed in SE ABQ APT; button got stuck in the dryer rim, ingenuity paid off in fixing the problem, but losing a shirt; Brad met Jean;
French tourist survived after falling 75 feet into the Grand Canyon; serial killer on the loose near Flint, MI; plane struck PA home, killing two people; seventy person brawl at the L’Enfant Plaza METRO stop; 3-D TV for less than $1K; Kagan is US Supreme Court Judge number 112: the is the youngest, is from NY, an Ivy Leaguer…but does not change the conservative position of the bench;
‘Ice Island’ breaks apart from Greenland glacier;

…8/8–10: musical dreams
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…no sales tax when purchasing school supplies this weekend in for NM; AM fog in N NM; Chimayo couple are victims of mortgage meltdown, with home payments they cannot afford; new Four Corners Monument has opened; ‘Ghost Bike’ movie being filmed in NM, a story about cyclists who have been killed by collisions with vehicles; NM has a 8.2% jobless rate; another power ‘blip’ in the PM; iodine leak from a vehicle at the Route 66 Truck Stop;
City official found a dead goat placed in front of his Rehoboth, MA house; escaped AZ prisons may be linked to deaths in Santa Rosa, NM; is the Gulf of MX seafood safe; Sarah Palin: the American ‘Olympic Octopus’; one million illegal Asians live in the US; castle for sale in Hope, ID: needs some work, selling price is $575K; AZ inmates may be in the Yellowstone area;Is the term ‘video game’ outdated; deadly landslides in china; more flooding in PAK; an increasing number of wildfires are occurring across Russia; US medical group attacked & killed by Taliban forces in AFG; N Korea seized S Korean fishing vessel; now, floods being reported in parts of E Europe; sauna championship turns deadly for one competitor; floods also occurring in S Korea; Iraqi forces are ready to take control of patrolling that country; earthquake shook Crete;

…8/1–10: the myth of reality

2010-08-03T17:23:00.000-07:00

66º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…overnight storms at The Beach, and across NM; parts of Coors in SW ABQ were closed because of flooded streets; bridge collapsed by heavy rains that fell on Church Rock, NM; Santa Fe is not a ‘sanctuary city’; the Duke City may hire a private recycling company; while ABQ may be using too much water, it has had above average rainfall for the month of July, and for the year 2010; plane crashed in an empty field near Santa Fe, both passengers survived; ‘In Plain Sight’ will continue to be filmed in NM for its next two seasons
Disney is selling Miramax for $660 million; now, was too much chemical dispersant used by BP, and approved by the US Coast Guard; ‘static kill’ process will probably start by this Tuesday;
BLDG collapsed in Italy, killing three people; repressing negative emotions is unnatural, and can be hazardous to a person’s health; power spike triggered alarms at the INTL Space Station, but none of the astronauts were in any danger: however, several spacewalks may be needed to repair the problem; the Netherlands pull out their troops from AFG; blackberry service may be blocked in both Saudi Arabia & the UAE;

…8/2–10: reward yourself
68º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ;
Hell Week, Day One; UNM cover-up based on race discrimination, First Amendment retaliation, and the school is facing a civil rights lawsuit; will job duties be reassigned, will pseudo code system go into effect, how will that impact our productivity; two pages of GPU Admits this weekend; the Duke City is using Facebook to fight property crime; Native American tribal college will be located in Santa Fe;
Wet in: Des Moines, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities, NYC, Miami, Omaha, ABQ, Denver, Sioux City, Chicago, Flagstaff, Orlando, KC, Green Bay & Rapid City; fifteen states under heat advisories; bad weather along sections of I-35 & I-90; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Surface water near the oil spill looks clean; a Wendy’s robber could the restaurant twice, saying there wasn’t enough money in the cashier as he expected; Chatham, MA beaches closed due to shark sightings; a second cargo plane has crashed in AK: this time, in the Denali NATL Forest; FL condos for less than $30K; the DOW ended up; Mitch Miller has died at the age of 99; per our PRES, the war in Iraq will end by the close of this August: combat troops will be coming home; ‘minor’ leaks, or plumes, have appeared near the oil spill; oil is still ‘choking’ the Louisiana shore; there is a 95% chance that the ‘static kill’ plan will work, but will take between 31–63 hours to completely fill the leak with cement: is this project being ‘whitewashed’; AK comic book collector wants to sell his copy of Batman #1; SEN Obama had opposed the Iraqi surge; AZ prison where three men escaped had major security problems;
Israeli–Palestine tensions on the rise again; oil is $81.44 per barrel; cooling system still a problem on the INTL Space Station; Swedish policemen dance while working; the day YouTube didn’t work; Bali has seen a severe outbreak of rabies; artist makes portraits out of corn chips; gold is $1,134 an ounce; Iraq still does not have a fully, functional GOVT; PAK residents do not trust the US;

…8/3–10: the global magnetic field
67º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; keep questions to a minimum; Santa Fe ‘nude ban’ gets voted down; 75% of NM schools fail to make the grade, but are the standards getting tougher, because one miss in one category means one failure; jailer took an inmate out of prison, and to lunch last week; local man accused of making false bomb threat via phone calls; NATL Might Out in ABQ tonight, when people can get to know each other, and help prevent property crime; overnight rain at The Beach;
Hell Week, Day Two; worked with Dr. Waldman yesterday to help a mother get heart treatment for her child; ran & caught the PM Blue Line at UNM; no PICU Admits; no PICN book;
Wet in: Chicago, Rapid City, INDY, Charlotte, KC, Tampa, Santa Fe, Casper, Orlando, Denver, Miami, Detroit, ABQ, Cleveland, Billings, Flagstaff, Louisville, ATL & Roanoke; TS Colin has 40 mph winds, moving WNW at 23 mph; bad weather along parts of I-20, I-80, I-81 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Six teens died in the Red River in Louisiana, none of them knew how to swim; an hydraulic leak problem has delayed the BP cleanup, it appears that 206 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of MX, making it the largest oil accident in the world; the DOW ended down; there may be a baby boom in the DC area; Boy Scouts held a campout in Times Square; PRES freezes GOVT bonuses; for political appointees; KY boy found in a mobile meth lab; [R] want to amend the constitution such that a baby can only become a US citizen if one of his parents is a US citizen; nine dead in CT workplace shooting; by this evening, the ‘static kill’ process had begun;Cholera is the next crisis facing PAK; wasp nest found in the attic of a British pub that was the size of a small car; Russian forest fires are out of control, Moscow is polluted by smoke from the flames; N Korean threatens retaliation against S Korea; oil is $82.10 per barrel; gold is $1,185.20 an ounce; an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude shook Indonesia, its epicenter was 26.6 miles below the surface;

…7/31–10: wise investments

2010-07-31T19:42:00.001-07:00

68º in ABQ; 73% humidity at 6A…strong T’storms at The Beach last night; Hobbs man killed his estranged wife, then buried her on the outskirts of that town; a couple in one neighborhood are two of many people who have had their home burglarized, and jewelry stolen, in spite of crime watches in the area; foreclosures are on the rise in NM, especially in Santa Fe CNTY, which has seen a 200% increase during the past year; workers at local Goodwill accused of theft; three puppies were stolen from a home at gunpoint; Blister Beetles in alfalfa can kill donkeys & horses; PM rain at The Beach; enjoyed Chinese food from Lam’s; Jean is a Social Worker, born in Buffalo, NY, spent many years in Oak Park, IL, before moving to ABQ; man was standing on the tracks when he was struck by a southbound Rail Runner: the incident stopped the entire train service; ABQ is in the top ten list of cities where cars are stolen; late day rain at The Beach;
Bugs are taking over beds & children’s toys; debris from Tropical Storm Bonnie has clogged the relief wells; another [D] on Capitol Hill accused of ethics violations; three prisoners escape from an AZ jail; yellow lobster caught off the RI coast; CO bicyclist injured by explosives shot from a cannon, set off by teenagers as a prank;For the second day in a row, Iran has been shaken by an earthquake, this one registered 5.3 on the Richter scale; did the person who leaked the data on AFG maneuvers have an accomplice: people mentioned in those documents have been threatened by the Taliban…and the war will continue; will US allies pull their forces from that country, fearing for their lives; floods in PAK;

…7/29–10: a night of knights

2010-07-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…more trance/techno fans watching my website; Brad must not do any heavy lifting [over ten pounds] for the next six weeks; GAQ; NM GOV thinks the AZ immigration law is ‘misguided legislation’; Santa Fe supports new homeless shelter; S Valley home invasion; pipeline leak near Farmington quickly repaired; Jean is also an insomniac; too many bears roaming NM; people on my website wished Brad a quick recovery;
Work all day today;
NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Rapid City, NYC, Boston, DC, JAX, Memphis, SLC, ABQ, Phoenix, Albany, Philly, Newark, Providence, Richmond & Orlando; rain along parts of I-10, I-20, I-64, I-80, I-90 & I-95; ABQ arroyo rescue featured on The Weather Channel, boy was dragged seven miles; six inches of hail fell in parts of CO yesterday; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Medical helicopter crashed in Tucson; 5.2 million gallons of oil has leaked from the well; BP has paid $256 million to people & businesses, but lots of oil is still below the surface now, one million gallons of oil has leaked into MI waters; Henry Winkler has written seventeen children’s books; PETA members wrapped in blood for ‘shock ad’; military cargo plane crashed near Anchorage, AK; one police officer is killed, two suspects also are dead after a Phoenix drug bust ended badly; man murdered three people, then killed himself, in an upscale San Antonio gated community, during a birthday party; foreclosures on the rise in major metropolitan areas; the DOW ended down; BP laying off cleanup workers; no treatment for Dengue Fever, which has been found in Key West; the Golden Gate Bridge will get a suicide net;
The world is getting warmer each year this past decade; man unsuccessfully tried to hijack plane that was leaving Moscow; oil is $78.28 per barrel; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce; US soldiers overseas are being overcome by stress, see war as a ‘high’, and committing suicide when they return home, and the ‘thrill’ is gone;

…7/30–10: fulfilled magic
70º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Bead slowly getting better; man tried to kill his wife by putting a little poison in her wine over a long period of time; Kewa Pueblo getting a $1 million FED grant ABQ fire fighters need new breathing masks, which may cost $1 million;
Left at noon, to Trader Joes’ & comics; arrived home about 3P;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Des Moines, KC, Tucson, New Orleans, Boise, Denver, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Madison & JAX; flash floods in VA, power outages in DC; wet along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 90s;
REP Rangel from NY facing ethics violation charges; the US economy slowed during the second quarter; the battle over the AZ immigration law continues, with death threat made against the judge who weakened the bill; Ellen may quit ‘Idol’; buzzwords on bad food; the DOW ended down; home births may prove hazardous to both the mother & child; the cost of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding may reach $3 million;High heat spawning wildfires in Russia; another Toyota recall; drug cartel leader killed in MX; 5.6 quake struck Iran, injuring hundreds of people; oil is $78.95 per barrel; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce;

…7/25–10: around in cycles

2010-07-28T17:05:00.000-07:00

69º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…NM is temporarily putting on hold the creation of more charter schools around the state; thirteen year old boy accused of killing a female, twenty-two year old ENMS student; more violent offenders in NM jails; in order to further their education, NM high school students will have to take college preparatory courses; AM & PM rain at The Beach; murder in Shiprock this past Saturday;
Heat wave bakes the E Coast; 116º in Culpepper, comics are entering the digital age; VA; ships
returning to the Gulf of MX as Bonnie further weakens;
Europe banks pass the ‘stress test’; BP oil official may lose his job, but will get plenty of money when he leaves; secret files leaked about the AFG war;

…7/26–10: polite policies
63º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; overnight rains at The Beach; sue the state so ABQ can get more funding for its schools; ‘cow invasion’ of ABQ; filthy home in the NE Heights is attracting mice, rates & cockroaches; Rio Rancho keeps on growing; the same house in ABQ has caught fire three times in recent weeks; child with autism was wandering the streets of the Duke City;
MGR out until midweek; PM storm clouds; AM rain in NE Heights; early AM R/R;
Wet in: ATL, New Orleans, Tampa, Wilmington [NC], Houston, Little Rock, Nashville, St. Louis, ABQ, Yellowstone, Reno, Charlotte, El Paso, Fargo, Rapid City, Dallas, Memphis, Miami, Orlando & KC; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-35; flash floods in Zion NATL Park; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Child struck & killed by falling tree in VA; S CA student says he has the longest tongue in the US; Boy Scouts are 100 years old; 300K people without power in the DC METRO area; the DOW ended up; did a boy die because of a McDonald’s toy; Mother Nature is reabsorbing the oil spill; 34K children each go to the ER because of problems dealing with contact lenses; military person was texting a CA man about the ‘truth’ regarding the war in AFG; AZ HOSP mistakenly tells the wrong parents which of their daughters had died in an accident, a similar incident took place after an IN car crash;
1.5 million people attended the Love Concert in Germany this past weekend; New Zealand boy survived a 16 story fall; 90K+ classified military documents on AFG war strategies have been leaked; oil is $78.90 per barrel; gold is $1.183.00 an ounce;

…7/27–10: a time, before time
65º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s time for surgery tomorrow will be told today; SE ABQ police involved shooting leaves one person dead; Farmington, Bloomfield & Santa Fe also facing cuts to their school budgets; some oil leaked after a BNSF train derailed S of Socorro; getting more credit card applications again;
UNMMG Pizza Party today at the Bradbury, record revenue generated during the past year;
NM floods mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Nashville, the Twin Cities, Knoxville, ATL, Charlotte, Pensacola, Dallas, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Cheyenne, Houston, St. Louis & Orlando; tornadoes in TN & MT last night; storms along sections of I-10, I-20, I-75 & I-94; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
White House assessing damage control over the leaked data, stating it is not current information; group of ponies stop traffic along a Boston highway; Obama will be the first person, while in office, to visit a daytime talk show: he will appear on ‘The View’; parts of DC are still in the dark from weekend storms; new home sales drop to their lowest rate in 47 years, as construction continues; barge slammed into abandoned well near the Gulf of MX, causing oil, water & natural gas to spew from the rig; the DOW ended up; several cars mysteriously caught fire in a SC parking lot; more [D] no longer want to fund the AFG war: more [R], do; 25% of the Gulf of MX is closed to fishing; housing prices are up, but the size of a new home is getting smaller;
BP Chief Executive will step down on 10/1/10, to be sent to its Russian HQ, and will be replaced by an American, as the company reports a $17 billion loss during the second quarter of this year: the action is a ‘mutual decision & agreement; how much will the leaked info affect the war in AFG, and US troops; smog covers Moscow;

…7/28–10: chasing musical dreams
70º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s surgery is at 6 AM, Nancy will bring him, and take him home; man forced woman into prostitution in his SW ABQ home; $40K in cowboy boots stolen from Santa Fe shop; per the doctor, the surgery went OK, picked up two prescriptions, and got home by 11A, plutonium waste could be shipped to WIPP; more PM rain at The Beach; man safely rescued after falling into a flooded arroyo near Carlisle & I-40; dead man found near Central & Louisiana;
People will do my work, not my Rounds; saw Julia at OSIS;
NM storms, and ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Milwaukee, Buffalo, Chicago, Orlando, Birmingham [AL], Little Rock, Cincinnati, Denver, Tucson, Roswell [NM], Madison, Des Moines, Houston & Cleveland; twisters struck NC last night; CA wildfires have destroyed hundreds of homes N of Los Angeles, and charred 15K acres; temps from the 70s to the 100s;NM train wreck, and resulting oil spill, featured on ABC AM News; illegal immigrants are moving from Phoenix to San Diego; Day 100 of the Gulf oil spill; 800K gallon oil spill in S MI; 5.3 quake off the OR coast, 6.2 miles below the surface; man exposed himself in front of a child’s lemonade stand in OH; the powerful parts of the new AZ immigration law have been put on hold by a judge; bear attack killed one person at a Yellowstone NATL Park campsite; the DOW ended down;
152 people dead when plane crashed in PAK on the side of a mountain range; oil is $76.99 per barrel; hackers in Slovenia infected twelve million computers around the world; a global increase in the number of bedbugs reported; France has officially declared war on al Qaeda; because of the leaked info, many Afghans fear attacks by the Taliban; gold is $1,160.40 an ounce;

…7/24–10: beauty, brought to you by colors

2010-07-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…items from the Doug Vaughn offices go on auction, the house is for sale, with an asking price of $2.2 million; Los Alamos CNTY getting FED stimulus money, mostly for LANL; flood advisories across NM; Carlsbad children test positive for meth; Gruet wine owner faces another DUI charge; street fair along Central in Nob Hill this weekend; there is also the lesbian & gay rodeo being held in the Duke City; Brad made Strawberry-Peach Smoothies; AM showers at The Beach;
The number of US bank failures top one hundred; pipe bombs found in CA park; Bonnie has 30 mph winds, moving WNW at 20mph: the storm could strengthen, but the chances are unlikely that this will happen; ‘Darth Vader’ robbed a NY bank; heavy rains flood Chicago; dam burst in IA;Series of 7.6 quakes shook the Philippines; N Korea threatens ‘nuclear response’, and does not approve of the military exercises between the US & S Korea, a ‘retaliatory, sacred war’; two military men are missing in AFG;

…7/23–10: fashion freedom

2010-07-23T18:09:00.001-07:00

67º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; maggots found in the APT of a UNM student; could NM ever have ‘too much rain’; pay cuts for ABQ teachers; Rio Arriba manhunt continues for escaped inmate; shooting at the Las Cruces Mall; local nurse accused of prescribing drugs for people she did not know; overnight rain at The Beach; landslide near Magdalena;
Empty AM R/R; left at 11:30, lunch at Saggio’s; got home after 3P;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Miami, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Pittsburgh, ABQ, Omaha, Milwaukee, Flagstaff & Dallas; TS Bonnie has 40 mph winds, heading WNW at 18 mph; landfall expected in FL this PM; there are Gulf shore advisories; as of now, the storm is aiming towards the oil spill; the cap is still containing the leak; temps from the 70s to the 90s;
All ‘Soldiers of the Year’ were women; MTV gets an ‘excellent’ rating by a gay/lesbian group; the DOW ended up; hundreds of DC teachers will lose their jobs; Del Monte cutting back on its salt in their food;Venezuela cuts ties with Colombia; AFG troop surge approved on Capitol Hill; 6.9 quake shook the Philippines;

…7/22–10: style statement

2010-07-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

70º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; RV fire destroyed N NM road; ABQ Studios file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; hate crime in downtown ABQ this past weekend after a man was beaten & attacked with pepper spray; vandalism has increased in Shiprock; last night, there were rumbles of thunder at The Beach, and rain in parts of the Metro region; fireworks in an attic started a blaze in a SW Duke City home; NM revenue still on the decline; rapid care clinic will open in the ABQ area; The Beach is 100% occupied until October;
People on vacation during the next few days, but changes are coming; relocated somewhere safe in the PEDS DEPT; very empty AM R/R;
Wet in: Knoxville, Chicago, Orlando, San Antonio, Spokane, Madison, Des Moines, Milwaukee & Farmington [NM],wet along I-65, I-75 & I-94; two tropical storms pose a threat in the Gulf of MX; the rain from Bonnie could pick up the oil, and drop it on land far away from the Gulf coast; temps from the 70s to 100s;
Storms may force BP to place a temporary cap in the relief tunnel; fragile economy needs the extension of unemployment benefits; Dallas mother strangled her autistic children; hikers stranded by storms in the Grand Tetons; cake eating contest at a wedding; more than 150 people have been stung by jellyfish along New England beaches; there could be oil in the rain if any bad weather comes close to the oil slick; NY horse & buggy chase; US homegrown terrorism on the rise; the DOW ended up; a rare tropical fungus has appeared in the NW US;Hillary Clinton in Vietnam; child eating his way out of a watermelon is the latest ‘viral video’; oil is $78.73 per barrel; gold is $1,191.60 an ounce; 6.2 tremor off the coast of Vanuatu; whale jumped onto sailboat;

…7/21–10: putting it together

2010-07-21T16:50:00.001-07:00

73º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…items from a real estate swindler go up for sale; did a Sandoval CNTY officer steal an inmate’s credit card; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; car theft in SE ABQ, near the SunPort; Navajo soldier killed in AFG; Los Lunas High School vandalized; multiple collisions, and an oil spill shut down parts of I-40, W of the Duke City; ID theft on the rise in Rio Rancho; BP oil facilities in Artesia & Eunice will be sold; NM will have a state run INS by 2014;
More meetings on ‘pseudo codes’; changes to start in early August;
Wet in: NYC, Raleigh, ATL, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, ABQ, Cheyenne, Flagstaff, DC, Louisville, KC, Omaha, St. Louis, Providence, Philly, INDY, Orlando & Billings; bad weather along sections of I-10, I-64, I-70, I-80 & I-95; tropical storm may pose a threat to FL; flooding in Flagstaff kill a young girl; severe floods in China; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
Turbulence injured thirty people on a Dulles to Los Angeles flight, the United jet was rerouted to Denver; five ‘minor’ leaks at the BP oil well; 1K US counties face water shortages by 2050; dam burst in Tempe, AZ; the DOW ended down; there are 500 million Facebook users, but the company is far from ‘perfect’;5.8 quake shook Iran; a donkey paragliding for a Russian publicity stunt; oil spill closed beaches along the Yellow Sea in China; most massive star discovered in the Tarantula Nebula; the plaid, macho cupcake; oil is $76.81 per barrel; gold is $1,191.60 an ounce; Rent-A-Friend, that is purely platonic;

…7/19–10: breathe hope

2010-07-20T16:52:00.000-07:00

74º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…Brad’s AM dental visit; overnight rain at The Beach; NM GOV says the AZ immigration law will hurt our image around the world; three children locked in a camper at Elephant Butte Lake while their parents went water skiing; Brad made a Fish Casserole; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; reached 100º again in ABQ; fatal crash on I-40 near Santa Rosa;
The ‘big meeting’ for the birth of Pseudo Codes in PEDS; UNMH Emergency Medical team help firefighters rescue victims from house firs, plus other types of disasters; took PM Lomas to PM Central; had an AM tour of UNM via Rapid Ride; UNM picnic this Saturday at the BioPark;
Wet in: Buffalo, NYC, Boston, DC, ATL, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Omaha, St. Louis, ABQ, Baltimore, New Orleans; Billings, Flagstaff, Knoxville, KC, Providence; central WA wildfires; heat wave continues across the country; weekend tornadoes touched down in WI & MI; ABQ heat mentioned on the Weather Channel; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
What is leaking near the oil site: is it methane; skimmers aren’t capturing much oil; BP has spent $3.95 billion on solving the oil spill problem; the ‘loop current’ has collapsed; the DOW ended up; will unemployment benefits be extended tomorrow when a new [D] SEN is sworn in; a gel to protect women from getting HIV or herpes; in the US, HIV is linked more to poverty, then race; sinkhole appears at major KS interchange;
Gold is the global haven for investments; pet porcupine treated like a puppy; Chinese stylists cuts hair while standing upside down; in Taiwan, dogs can get married; ask the World Cup Octopus what the future will be; two trains collided in India, sabotage suspected; another UFO seen over China; gold is $1,181.70 an ounce; oil is $75.72 per barrel;

…7/20–10: seductive persuasion
75º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; man got burning trying to pull his family from a flaming wreck yesterday; bear attack warnings for the E MTN area; revamped the message on my YouTube site; changes may come after naked bicyclists drove through Santa Fe, more ‘coverage’ in the future; Raton racing casino is on hold; NM financial institutions have money to borrow for purchasing a home; it reached 102º in ABQ this PM;
The aftermath of the ‘big meeting’; pseudo-codes to be developed; no CTI Admits;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Nashville, Tallahassee, Chicago, KC, Santa Fe, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, INDY, Detroit, Erie, DC, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Denver, Orlando, Miami, Akron & Fargo; bad weather along areas of I-35 & I-70; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
‘Minimal’ amount of oil & gas leaking from the well and the seafloor, considered small seepages ‘swift kill’ is the new phrase, while BP tries to sell $7 billion in assets; day five in the oil ‘capturing’ test; could the well be buckling; ‘Christmas in July’ sales; Perdue recalling thousands of chicken nuggets; the DOW ended up;
Landslides in El Salvador; MX man smuggled monkeys around his waist, inside a girdle; a snail race in Sydney, Australia; a London ice cream van for dogs; AFG can secure its country by 2014; China is now the world’s largest energy user; 6.3 quake shook New Guinea; gold is $1,191.50 an ounce; oil is $77.44 per barrel; meeting between the new British PM, and the US PRES;

…7/17–10: lifetime love

2010-07-18T16:58:00.000-07:00

72º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…I am still tired after yesterday’s fasting, and the fact that I only ate lunch; Spaceport using water needed for nearby ranches; four people accused of stealing security cameras from ABQ school, suspects & theft caught on tape; another endangered alpha male grey wolf has been killed in NM; series of robberies have occurred in Carlsbad; a boil water advisory for Socorro; a bat disease may shut down Carlsbad Caverns; NM facing a medical marijuana shortage; N NM gang problems are on the rise; body recovered from Rio Grande Gorge in N NM; US SECY of the Interior visited NM; use solar power to pump water into hydrants & fire engines; NM police inventory for sale;
So far, no leaks in the oil cap; the hottest June on record, and heat bakes most of the US; at least forty illegal immigrants have been killed by the AZ heat; BP faces $22 billion in fines if found guilty of negligence; Neo-Nazi groups have been sighted patrolling the AZ/MX border;
200 year old bottle of champagne discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Sweden; thousands of tourists stranded in Greece & Turkey when a tour company suffered a financial collapse;

…7/18–10: maximize the talents that you have
76º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…because of its small population, and large, isolated areas, NM is a haven for drug dealers to grow marijuana; more DUI drivers have children with them when they are caught by police; Brad made alcoholic Jell-o; man escaped Belen Mental Health Facility; shooting in front of the Bubble Lounge near Fifth & Central in downtown ABQ; reached 100º in the Duke City today; full electronic body scan vs. pat down search at the SunPort;
Chelsea Clinton will be married by the end of July in NY state; 6.7 quake shook AK, no damages or injuries reported, the tremor was 21 miles below the surface; shooting at WA state park near Seattle; today is NATL Ice Cream Day; so far, the BP cap is ‘not a failure’; social hardships for many people in the Gulf of MX; bubbles at the bottom of the Gulf waters; keep the oil capped, or siphon the flow onto ships;Hillary Clinton is in PAK; AIDS research also suffering from the global economic downturn;

…7/15–10: friendly foundation

2010-07-16T17:10:00.000-07:00

78º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; a NE ABQ 7-11 robber may still be on the loose; Corrales crashed caused power outages & property damage; suspicious death at ABQ motel; man beat woman to death in front of her children;
Working on more GPU charges; so many people did not get rain yesterday; mid AM panic attack;
Severe weather from NM to MI; wet in: Tampa, Chicago, KC, ABQ, Milwaukee, Wichita, St. Louis, Detroit, INDY, Orlando & Charlotte; mid-Atlantic flooding, heat in the SW US; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
People stung by stingrays off the CA coast; another leak in the containment cap; model of San Fran sculptured from Jell-O; NYC subway ‘Star Wars’ actors; one in 78 homes face foreclosure, and one million homes may be reposed by the banks this year; 3.6 million jobs have been saved, or created by the current stimulus package; the first lawsuit challenging DOW ended slightly down; the AZ immigration law will be heard today; ME is pushing to allow same-sex marriages; substation fire caused a blackout at NATL Airport; electronic cigarettes; for now, after 87 days, the oil has stopped leaking: this will make it easier for the relief wells to do their job; the UT list of 1,300 illegal immigrants that has been seen across the US;
Cat ‘hugs’ its owners; Iranian scientist, who was supposedly paid millions by the US, returns to his homeland; Argentina legalizes gay marriages; oil is $76.01 per barrel; gold is $1,206.80 an ounce;

…7/16–10: fantastic fantasies
74º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…fasting for labs today; EMCORE will reopen for business today, and continue cleaning the debris from Monday’s shootings; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Central at UNIV will be closed for several days, as the intersection is repaved; NM GOV will speak at the LULAC CONV today; our chairs arrived;
Work on June charges; left at 11:30 AM, ate at Owl Café; no CTI Admits; people are amazed how I have been able to deal with the hate by a co-worker, that has lasted several years;
Wet weather for: Albany, Charlotte, Omaha, OKC, Little Rock, Santa Fe, Cleveland, Twin Cities, Boston, Buffalo, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, ABQ, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh & ATL; wet weather along parts of I-20 & I-81; CA wildfires; temps from the 70s to the 110s;The foot long cheeseburger; Congress passed financial reform bill; 3.6 earthquake shook DC: the tremor was three miles deep, and its center was 20 miles NW of the city in Germantown, MD; canopy at NJ condo collapsed into its parking lot; the DOW dropped over 261 points; rocket surfboards; the $251 million Medicare scam by doctors & nurses; IPhone may face massive recalls, will APPLE make a public apology; the oil may be capped, but the cleanup continues; E Coli found in more bags of Romaine lettuce; Honolulu wants to ban the sale of fireworks;
Suicide bombings of Iranian mosques; the ‘Rainbow Tower’ of Brussels indicates the weather for that city; more Americans are against the Afghan war; fire at luxury hotel in Baghdad; oil is $76.25 per barrel; gold is $1,201.00 an ounce;

…7/13–10: change…is changing

2010-07-14T16:53:00.000-07:00

69º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; ABQ office shooting on ABC AM News: now, three were reportedly killed, and four people were injured at EMCORE, the UNMH ER went on lockdown yesterday PM; Brad made French Hamburgers; next stop: Brazil!; Spaceport sightseeing tours, so people can watch its progress;
One Coder returns; car conked out at Yale & Central; saw Amber Lee of KOAT on UNM hill; time off taken vs. amount of work produced; took Red Line R/R, spoke with Steve;
Wet in: Memphis, Raleigh, NYC, Nashville; Tampa, St. Louis, Philly, Memphis Little Rock; JAX, Boston, INDY, Pittsburgh, ATL Richmond & Roanoke; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
NBC will allow gay couples to apply for a wedding ceremony that will be shown on the ‘Today’ program; sinkhole opened at FL APT Complex; American Airlines jet made emergency landing in AK; the oil cap is in place, is it be the cure, or will it cause multiple leaks from the pressured liquid; people moon a train in CA; the NAACP vs. the Tea Party; guacamole & salsa are a major cause of recent food poisonings; the DOW ended up; Obama tackles the HIV/AIDS crisis; the dietetic pill, whose side effects are unknown; the pill is twenty times the size of the one caused by the Exxon Valdez, and 180 times the strength of a typical fire hydrant pressure; 550+ miles of coastline have been affected by this leak; the approval rate of Obama has dropped to 43%;
Deadly floods in SW China; Roman Polanski is now a free man in Switzerland; heavy rains hinder Haiti earthquake relief; dolphin jumped out of its tank; sandwich in a can; the munching marmot; TESLA unveiled its electric car; oil is $77.15 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 an ounce;

…7/14–10: the cycle of cycles
74º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad’s AM Chiro visit; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; fire in the Sandia foothills; man shot & killed by police when he attacked them with a samurai sword; small Bosque fire near Belen yesterday PM; INTEL says the Gulf oil will get caught in the water currents, and may reach the Carolina shores; found a goblet for the golf balls; PM T’storms at The Beach; local child has died after being left in a locked, hot vehicle for 2½ hours; NM chile crop will be later than usual, but its flavor will remain the same;
Hard to keep up with the number of charges coming in; MGR out today;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: NYC, Raleigh, Boston, Savannah, Tallahassee; Omaha, the Twin Cities, Santa Fe, Fargo, Philly, Providence, DC, Richmond, Orlando, Des Moines & KC; wet along areas of I-20, I-35, I-75, I-94 & I-95; temps from the 70s to 110s;
‘Barefoot Bandit’ behind bars’; AZ boy died in an overheated vehicle; pressure tests on the oil cap have been delayed, so the leak keeps flowing; ‘the end’ of the spill may not be in sight: how ‘well’ is the well; Gulf of MX may be polluted for years; US sent BP a $99.7 million bill to cover expenses; the DOW ended slightly up; great white shark seen near Chatham, MA beaches; the porn detection stick for a PC; US Steel plant explosion in PA; sex education in MT school makes parents uneasy; NE residents upset over naked store mannequin;Heavy rains in Japan; drunken man tried to ride a crocodile; 6.5 quake shook Chilean coast; BP linked to PAN AM terrorist attack, and Libyan oil deal?; car bombs detonated in Kandahar, AFG; oil is $77.60 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 per ounce;

…7/8–10: remain curious at all times

2010-07-12T16:54:00.001-07:00

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; canine distemper forced the closing of a Socorro animal shelter, all the dogs had to be euthanized; yesterday’s Bosque fire came close to the Rio Grande Zoo; child molester in Valencia CNTY; ABQ dog stung & killed by bees; Brad made Shrimp & Scallop Stew; shooting at Santa Fe Place Mall; how many ID cards must someone carry while driving in AZ;
More work, same pay, no additional Coders; a stench of dirty, standing water in 3–E; MGR out; no CTI Admits;
NM T’storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet for: San Antonio, Galveston, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Houston, KC, St. Louis, Chicago, Miami, Albany [NY], Dallas, Little Rock, ABQ & Denver; it will reach 100º in Savannah; another TS forming in the Gulf of MX that could become ‘Bonnie’, and make landfall by tomorrow: it has 35 mph winds, moving NW at 14 mph; bad weather along sections of I-10 and I-40; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Tour boat & barge collided on the DE River, near Philly; another Tylenol recall; helicopter crash off the WA coast; MA judge says the ban of gay marriages is unconstitutional; the DOW ended up; 122K suggestions have been sent to BP on how the oil water & beaches can be cleaned; BP says the Gulf oil leak could be fully capped by the end of July; FL has no state income tax;
Man selling his body: put tattoos on his skin, for a price; tourists can purchase ‘kidnap’ packages in which they are abducted without warning; solar powered planed stayed in the air for 26 hours; parking garage in Windsor, Ontario collapsed; oil is $75.48 per barrel; gold is $1,195.80 an ounce;

…7/9–10: Internet heaven
67º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; N NM murderer has been caught; a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the S Valley, which then drove away; twelve NM Wells Fargo locations will be closing, following the bank’s merger with Wachovia; man was killed in Santa Fe Mall yesterday; and we make NATL news for all the wrong reasons: a Las Cruces father taught his son how to build bombs; three ties, cake and a B’day card from Brad;
Work all day, no comic climbing today; empty AM R/R; B’day greetings from Evelyn; the opening of 3-N:, for Family Practice patients; no CTI Admits; was our MGR at work;
Wet in: St. Louis, OKC, Corpus Christi, Dallas, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Yellowstone, Amarillo, Orlando, Memphis, Tulsa, Louisville, ABQ, Baltimore, Roanoke & INDY; wet weather along areas of I-20, I-35, I40, I-70, I-81 & I-90; Laredo, TX is underwater, with several closed border bridges; temps from the 80s to the 100s;
Could quakes be caused by the oil flow; 500+ miles of beaches have seen the effects of the oil spill; ‘things are getting better’: who is BP trying to convince; air quality along the Gulf coast may be hazardous to some people’s health; naked man in the middle of I-405 in Los Angeles; the DOW ended up; E Coli detected in bags of spinach;
The ‘Group of Ten’…10 American for 4 Russian spies: in an exchange not seen since 1986, with some children left behind in the US; while the trade takes place in Vienna; oil is $75.33 per barrel; gold is $1,209.60 an ounce; there are antibodies which could produce an AIDS vaccine;

…7/10–10: a haven of tranquility
71º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…it’s 56 today!; pipe bomb exploding, severely injuring a boy’s foot; new NM marijuana growers approved; N NM Pow Wow being held this weekend; TX prisoner found in NM landfill; state wants to take control of the ABQ Crime Lab; a new Rail Runner station will be built, as the number of riders is on the decline; a spectrum of colors were painted on empty downtown ABQ structure; renovations for Rio Grande BLVD; enjoyed a great Chinese meal;
So far, Gulf of MX seafood is still safe to eat; NM made NATL news again, about a man whose prosthetic leg was set on fire after he lost a drinking bet, the fire spread up his body, then the victim was left on the side of a road; heavy rains flooding the Boston area;
Military told to complete a questionnaire that deals with the elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; Queen Elizabeth II will become a great-grandmother;

…7/11–10: the power of praise
75º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…bad accident at Copper & Eubank, involving a semi and a van; medical air ambulance is shutting down its Santa Fe office; heavy rain across SW NM; there has been an increase in attempted suicides in Rio Rancho, the economy may be an important factor; not all NM residents qualify for the tax amnesty program; ultralight plane crashed into Elephant Butte Lake; there are 9K gang members in NM; Las Cruces man wants all the city’s Red Light Cameras removed, and the fines be reimbursed to those who were caught;
Los Angeles boy accidentally shot & killed his brother; it will take 4–7 days to replace the spill with a new cap…but will it work; ‘South Pacific’ will be remade, and appeal to a twenty first century audience; the supertanker failed tests to help clean the oil spill;
Spain vs. Netherlands for the World Cup Championship, too million watched the final game, and Spain won with a score of 1–0; Fidel Castro was seen in public; PRES Clinton says the earthquake relief for Haiti has been too slow; bomb threat forced an Air France jet to make an emergency landing;

…7/12–10: imagination…and life
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; downed power lines put some ABQ residents in the dark on Saturday night; I-40 was shut down from Gallup to the AZ border as police searched for suspects; another collision with a power pole left Bernalillo resident in the dark last night; LULAC convention being held in the Duke City; ABQ home sales are on the rise; new Duke City homes may require sprinkler systems; introduced to Jean, the ‘cat lady’; hydrochloric acid leaked from Farmington factory;
The lone Coder today; carjacking situation ended on NY AVE, rerouted my walk; Channels 7 and 13 on UNM hill; MGR back at work; commented ‘Bless You, My Child’ to Dr. Young; no weekend PICU Admits; B’day cupcake from PEDS DEPT, bought at Cake Fetish; jumped over a fence to reach the PM Blue Line R/R; today I also had an ‘indirect’ B’day present;
Wet in: OKC, Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Omaha, DC, Little Rock, Tulsa, Flagstaff, Detroit, ATL, Orlando, Amarillo, Dayton, Miami, Baltimore & New Orleans; bad weather along sections of I-40, I-70 & I-75; weekend floods in KC; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More Americans have very low credit scores, and these numbers keep dropping; the DOW ended slightly up; shooting at ABQ fiber optic plant made COMCAST & CNN News, at least three people were confirmed killed; the ‘best plan’ by BP for now is the bigger cap, the company has now spent $3.5 billion in to clean up the oil spill; extreme high pressure could cause the new cap to explode; over 100K claims, and 52K people have been paid any money; Michelle Obama visited the Gulf area; BP has funded the free concerts;6.2 earthquake shook Chile, tremor was 57 miles below the surface; total solar eclipse took place yesterday; multiple bombings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, occurred during the World Cup Soccer Games; it could take twenty years to completely rebuild Haiti to the way it was before the quake, which took place exactly six months ago; there is a world’s best pea shooter; an actual cat is stealing items in England; a swan is attacking British boaters; it was Spain’s first victory at the World Cup Soccer Games; Fidel Castro predicts a nuclear war between Iran & the US; oil is $74.84 per barrel; gold is $1,198.50 an ounce; al Qaeda group from Somalia says it was responsible for the Uganda attacks;

…7/5–10: let ‘me’ be your fantasy

2010-07-07T17:32:00.000-07:00

71º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…dead hiker found in N NM; three people dead on a crash along I-40 near the Route 66 Casino; Brad made a Bacon & Egg Sandwich, replacing the brown sauce with mayo; fireworks could still be heard at 4A; Socorro man accuse of credit card fraud; moving van fire on Coors, shutting the street; two year old drowned in the Animas River;
BP costs for oil spill exceed $3 billion; bad weather hampers Gulf cleanup; cell phone towers are bad for bees’ health; vampire movies are a hit this summer: the latest ‘Twilight’ saga earned $162 million this weekend; new Buddhist pilgrimage site is located in S Carolina; near air traffic controllers blamed for several near misses in the DC airspace; tornadoes touched down near Topeka; naked male visitor found in S CA home, may have been drunk, but was not arrested; Queen Elizabeth II visited Ground Zero; air ambulance crashed in W TX; tar balls appearing along TX coast; Gulf tourism down by 65%;
Paying the Royal Family in Britain cost less that $1 per person for her salary; now, some Toyota vehicles stall while being driven;

…7/6–10: knights in white satin
67º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…GAQ; time to focus most of my attention on my YouTube site; two teens killed in N NM; police union will file a legal suit against ABQ; money & training spent by the Duke City on a solar plant that decided not to build in ABQ; Bernalillo man threatened to kill his neighbor with a bow & arrow; the wonderful smell of Chinese food in the refrigerator; fire at an ABQ sports bar; contractors for the Anasazi BLDG in downtown Duke City accused of money laundering, now an unsafe, unfinished structure sits, a YouTube link back to someone still in DC;
Hell Week, Day 2.5, time to close the books for the year; forgot my ID badge, Brad to the rescue; started the new ‘duties’ memo; need help, move to Bradbury; UNM student accused of printing fake prescriptions for Oxycodone; no weekend Admits in PSUP;
Wet in: New Orleans, KC, Green Bay, Orlando, Tulsa, Houston, Denver; Mobile, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Mobile, Des Moines, Tulsa, Dallas & KC; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-30, I-35, I-44 & I-75; the worst heat wave in decades still bakes the E Coast, causing power outages in major cities; hail fell on CO yesterday; another tropical depression in the Caribbean; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Tar balls sighted near Lake Pontchatrain, Louisiana; the supertanker turned skimmer is still being tested; OAC = ‘on approved credit’; casino being opened at the Greenbrier Resort in WV; cars can heat up to 135º in one hour when parked in the sun; the DOW ended up; postage stamps will be going up in price again; CT priest accused of stealing $1 million from parishioners; MS mother charged with leaving her child in a hot car while she went shopping; passport book fees will increase next week; METRO rails could bend because of the heat wave;
Tensions between Turkey & Israel; jam made from Princes Diana’s hair; Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous & deadly cities in the world; children being used to smuggle drugs from MX into the US; the ups & downs of YouTube today; Queen Elizabeth II spoke at the UN today, the first time in over fifty years: she is the ruler of 16 nations, and a commonwealth of 54 countries; dangerous Lady Gaga contact lenses; oil is $72.14 per barrel; gold is $1,194.80 an ounce;

…7/7–10: across the spectrum
67º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; ABQ bus drivers are not paid enough; gang activity on the rise in N NM Towns; PNM faces a $378K fine; while the trestle is still closed, people can go by bus along part of the Cumbres & Toltec route, then take the train beyond the burned bridge; fires in the Bosque, and Corrales; bear attacked a Boy Scout in N NM;
The ‘day after’ the big Closing; other people notice I come to work every day; MGR left early, was not feeling well; everyone is overwhelmed;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: New Orleans, Miami, OKC, St. Louis, Omaha, San Antonio, Casper, Santa Fe, Houston, Tulsa, Dallas, Tampa & CO Springs; there is a low pressure system directly over the oil spill; the dangerous E Coast heat wave continues; Baltimore reached 105º yesterday, other cities broke decades old high temp records; bad air equated to a sunburn to the lungs; power outages across NJ; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Israeli leader’s luggage lost by airline; HI GOV vetoes same–sex civil unions bill; 27 oil rigs in the Gulf of MX have been abandoned for many years, could be leaking fuel; the DOW ended up nearly 275 points; father & son plan fifty hikes in fifty states in fifty days; Wells Fargo will cut 3,800 jobs; 5.9 quake shook S CA: another tremor was felt in Anchorage, AK;DOLE banana vending machine in Japan; pick people who are fatter than you for the bridal party, so the wedding couple can look thin; armored car accident caused a downpour of money on an Italian highway; MX town evacuated for fear of flooding; solar powered plane took off from Switzerland, trying to fly around the world; Spain won the World Cup Soccer playoff; spy for spy exchange between the US & Russia;

…7/1–10: circular spheres of influence

2010-07-05T16:14:00.000-07:00

66º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…NM residents with gun licenses can carry their weapons into some restaurants that serve beer & wine; massive pot plantation found in N NM; an increase in cigarette & gross receipts tax goes in effect in NM today; Garduno’s two remaining restaurants remain very busy; negotiations have stalled between ABQ, and its city unions; two more bear attacks took place in N NM yesterday; affordable health INS coverage is available for unemployed people who have pre-existing conditions;
Hell Week, Day One; lots of charges in, and out; we remain in Code Purple;
Wet in: Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Corpus Christi, Houston, New Orleans, Billings, Mobile, San Antonio & Tampa; reports of flooding & tornadoes in S TX; Alex is the strongest June hurricane to strike that part of the US since 1966: it made landfall in MX last night, with 105 mph winds, which placed it in the CAT 2 category; garbage scattered along the beaches; this AM, the storm had 80 mph winds, and was moving W at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 110s;
More cadmium found in children’s jewelry; financial overhaul law is nearly approved; BP claims it is ahead of schedule to finish its pipelines, and halt the flow of oil; people are ignoring cell phone laws, still talking & taking while driving; the DOW went down again; a flying car by 2011?; home sales have plunged; BP oil spill is the largest that has ever occurred in the Gulf of MX; red & yellow dyes in food can contain cancer causing chemicals; divorce lawyers can use Facebook entries as evidence; immigration bill would die on Capitol Hill; jobless benefits extension vetoed;
Lexus models recalled for faulty engine problems; oil is $72.66 per barrel; gold is $1,245.50 per barrel; Chinese supertanker will be used to skim the Gulf, but will the vessel be able to accomplish its mission;

…7/2–10: electronic surf
69º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; no deal between ABQ & the unions; two babies were left inside a van, suffering from heat exposure; the Cumbres & Toltec RR is back in business; an increase in meth labs across Valencia CNTY; as of today, the DMV at Cottonwood Mall will permanently close;
Hell Week, Day Two; PICU charges on PowerChart?; comic climb; a new duty: monitoring TES edits for pulmonary lab tests; from Carlisle to Menaul to Eubank to Central, and home by 5P; very slow, very empty AM R/R, which broke down at the ATC, so finished the route on the Green Line;
Wet in: Orlando, Houston, Dallas, JAX, San Antonio, OKC, New Orleans, Denver, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Bozeman, Pensacola, ABQ, Tampa & ATL; a record number of tornadoes reported in June; wet along I-10, I-20, I-35, I-35 & I-75; Alex has 30 mph winds, moving W at 12 mph; temps from the 60s to the 110s;
Sharks sighted off the MA coast; the DOW ended down; city budget problems may mean fewer fireworks on the Fourth of July; the economic recovery may be stuck on neutral, but more people will be traveling this holiday weekend; there will be summer surcharge fees on airfares; bedbugs force the closure of two NYC clothing stores; MA will allow three resort casinos to be built;
Canadian man has invented a cyborg eye; more sanctions imposed on Iran by the US; a Russian spy has ‘disappeared’ on Cyprus; deadly blast at PAK shrine; oil is $72.14 per barrel; gold is $1,207.40 an ounce;

…7/3–10: agricultural forecast
70º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…GAQ; go to work for three hours; are there people who start the day drunk?; Red Line to work: Central, to home; Roswell UFO Festival this weekend; Duke City mayor cutting the salaries of police & firemen; local school worker accused of stealing items, then selling them online; bus fire on I-25 near Paseo del Norte; warehouse fire on Broadway I still burning;
Wet in: Houston, OKC, Miami, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando & New Orleans; NM rain mentioned on the Weather Channel; bankruptcies on the rise; Obama wants more broadband coverage across the US, and increase our use of solar power; 125K jobs were eliminated in June, making it the worst month for the unemployed since October, 2009; seven million people have been out of work for over six months, and fewer companies want to hire them; hot air balloon festive being held in MS this weekend; people may be traveling this holiday weekend, but not very far from home; more jobs are being creating in the private sector; locals not being hired to clean the Gulf oil spill; there is now a video game, based on the disaster; oil companies face small fines for safety violations on rigs; the hope for the unemployed to find a job is at an all-time low;
Many surprising losses at the World Cup; 230 people killed in Congo oil tanker explosion; cargo craft failed to dock with INTL Space Station; VP Biden in Iraq;

…7/4–10: decorative symbolism
67º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…no Rail Runner service today, limited ABQ bus service across the city; people shot, mobile home set on fire in Crownpoint; enjoyed watching ‘Alice’; another meth bust in Farmington; Duke City firefighters & police officers may retire early to avoid pension & pay cuts;
CO bison meat recalled, contains E Coli; time to celebrate the Fourth of July, if your city has the money to do so; possible sale of land in the Grand Teton NATL Park; [R] leader said the US cannot win the war against AFG; Terminal One at JFK Airport in NYC was evacuated after a bomb threat was called in;
Drug smuggling submarine located off the W coast of S America; lightning shut down major rail service in France; Baghdad bombed during Biden visit;

…6/27–10: treasure treasures

2010-06-30T17:11:00.001-07:00

65º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…poverty or overcrowded conditions is not a reason to remove children from a home, there has to be a physical neglect factor; school truancy in the Duke City is down; crash sent two local children to the HOSP; marijuana bust in Farmington; it will be at least a week before the fate of the Cumbres & Toltec trestle will be known; ABQ is using more water than budgeted, the city only has six people policing to find excessive users; several bear attacks have taken place across NM this weekend; a pedestrian bridge will be built to link the Belen Rail Runner station to its downtown area; numerous PM storms across the state; theft & fraud in Santa Fe CNTY;

The ‘limping latex’ bank robber has been arrested; gas prices on the rise; oil is slowly entering the MS River; three people shot during Gay Pride in San Fran; SEN Robert Byrd is seriously ill;

Portugal will now play against Spain in the World Cup Soccer Games; as of now, TS Alex should not pose a threat to the oil spill; violence at the G-20 summit, get ready for a second global recession, the world wants to stop spending, and start saving; is Iran working on a nuclear weapon design; could 2011 be the end for BP?;

…6/28–10: enjoy the beauty of being alive

69º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s doctor visit; small brushfire yesterday at Tramway & Paseo del Norte; ABQ Gang Registry is three years old, but no one is on the list, since there is no set guidelines of who should appear on that list; Petroglyph NATL Monument is twenty years old; PM wind & rain; another Bosque fire; dog attacked father & his two children; Sandia NATL Labs leaders has been helping at the Gulf oil spill;

UNM HSC will receive $21 million; and so begins Hell Week;

Rain for parts of I-10, I-35, I-40, I-70, I-75, I-90 & I-95; wet in: Detroit [which reported weekend tornadoes], Boston, NYC, Philly, DC, ATL, INDY, Dallas; ABQ, Roanoke, Akron, OKC, Ft. Smith [AR], Syracuse, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Albany, Erie & Richmond; TS Alex is in the Gulf of MX, could push water & oil into the FL beaches: it is a large, slow storm that may reach TX by the end of the week as a CAT 2 hurricane; temps from the 60s to 110s;

People cleaning the sludge face heat exhaustion; ‘Toy Story 3’ was the number one box office hit; $45K paid for 1954 chest X-rays of Marilyn Monroe; WV SEN Byrd has died at the age of 92; oil spill is taking its toll on people’s thoughts & emotions; $2.5 billion has been spent by BP to clean up the oil spill; great white shark sighted off the MA coast; IA mall has its own flashers; ten people arrested for being Russian spies, who lived in cities from MA to VA; the DOW ended down; San Fran Gay Pride is forty years old; US Supreme Court said that ‘self defense is a given right’;

Global leaders want to cut their deficits by 2013: an impossible dream?; how safe is airline food?; oil is $78.25 per barrel; gold is $1,238.20 an ounce;

…6/29–10: sometimes a good laugh can cure what hurts you

60º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad is healthy enough to undergo surgery on 7/28/10; Valencia CNTY man driving a car loaded with explosives, weapons stolen to protect his marijuana crop; ABQ Studios will be auctioned…again: the business still owes millions; health care reform will help some NM residents; Governor’s Job Fair today; NE ABQ APT filled with snakes, plus several children: the structure has now been ‘red tagged’, and the owner will have to pay for the sanitization; SunPort parking rates will rise;

Brent & I keep asking doctors to complete the online documentation; 100 research positions will be created at the HSC; job reorganization in the Pavilion; spoke with the ‘cat woman’ on my walk home; as of now, the Final Closing is on 7/6/10;

Wet in: Raleigh, Tallahassee, Houston, New Orleans, Great Falls [MT], Dallas, Charlotte, JAX, San Antonio, ATL, Tampa & Orlando; high winds from Alex could stop the oil cleanup, which has 70 mph winds, moving NNW at 8 mph; S TX is preparing for a hurricane, and voluntary evacuations are in place; rain along parts of I-10 & I-75; temps from the 60s to the 110;

5K vessels are cleaning up the oil slick; airline meals are prepared in unsanitary places, mice & cockroaches have been seen at these sites; obesity rates on the rise in the US; the DOW plunged; BP helping gas stations; Guardian Angels patrolling Santa Cruz, CA; ‘cat woman’ mask burglar in NYC; KY reported its first bear attack; TS Alex has halted some of the oil cleanup; the storm is 300 miles across, with 6–12 foot waves [which may help break up the oil], and two foot storm surge: TX Dollar Tree store selling US flags with 61 stars, one for each state?;

Surfboarding mice in Australia; 65 year old woman is Australia’s hottest grandma, keeps in shape by swimming; Spain beat Portugal 1–0 in the World Cup Soccer Games; oil is $75.47 a barrel; gold is $1,242.00 per ounce;

…6/30–10: start at the source

66º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Santa Fe medical clinic to close; Rio Arriba CNTY bat has rabies; man accused of stealing stucco; wall collapsed at 175 year old church; a water main break yesterday near University & Yale; contract talks between the Duke City & unions have not reached any agreements; ABQ evidence warehouse shuts down; water break in Bernalillo, problem fixed by late PM; will the NATL Park Service take control of the Valles Caldera?; Frito Pie, the fat food of NM;

What to do about PICU services: bill what for services that appear on PowerChart; Code Purple by 11:30A; one of our Coders was sick today;

Wet in: Pensacola, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Mobile, Houston, Orlando & Miami; chance of tornadoes in MT; S TX starting the feel the winds of Alex, which is now a hurricane, with 80 mph winds, moving WNW at 7 mph; the main problem will be the storm’s rain, not wind; an eye has formed in the storm; S TX floods; by PM, Alex had 100 mph winds, aiming towards TX; temps from the 60s to the 110s;

MO VA HOSP may have exposed people to Hepatitis & HIV; twelve countries and organizations are now helping clean up the Gulf oil spill; more night spent on beaches to recover tar balls; some ships heading to shore as Alex becomes stronger; consumer confidence has plunged; more child deaths from being locked in overheated vehicles; Larry King leaving CNN; maggots on a US Airways flight forced the plane to return to the terminal in ATL; the DOW ended down; Wonder Woman gets a new outfit in issue number 600, which will be released this week; NH city employees can now carry guns to work; teen ‘car surfing’, followed by leaps into a body of water is illegal, but on the rise; the oil spill is 40% contained, not the promised 90% that we were told earlier this month; mother held ‘pot party’ for teenagers; so far, no extension in unemployment benefits;Asian stocks falling; 6.5 quake shook Oaxaca, and could be felt in MX City; the largest US military base in AFG has been attacked; oil is $75.11 per barrel; gold is $1,245 an ounce;

…6/24–10: proud, and pride

2010-06-26T08:32:00.001-07:00

68º in ABQ; 50% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; people at Two Fools were watching the World Cup Games; man who stole charity money is arrested; warehouse fire in downtown ABQ, firemen were still on the scene during the late PM; cross country cyclist killed while biking in the Laguna Pueblo; another mouse infestation, this time at the Dollar Tree store, near Coors & Sequoia; 6K people were without power across the Duke City, blamed on last night’s strong winds; bridge in N NM collapsed, at a time when no one was driving on the structure; Val Kilmer apologized to San Miguel CNTY for his rude remarks about the area;

I wish I worked for Brent; smoke from the warehouse could be seen from UNMH;

ABQ weather conditions & temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Boston, Pittsburgh; DC, Memphis, Miami, Tulsa, Little Rock, Houston, Yellowstone, Roswell, OKC, Amarillo, Richmond & NYC; bad weather along areas of I-10 & I-40; heat advisory for mid Atlantic coast; temps from the 70s to the 110;

Took ten hours to recap the oil: ‘disgusting’ is the word for FL beaches, as the wind is pushing the sludge onto the sand; whooping cough epidemic in CA; the $21 burger sold in Phoenix, made of lion’s meat; IPhone Four has glitches; mortgage rates have not been this low since the 1950s, but people are not willing to buy, because they cannot guarantee the stability of their jobs; ‘welfare cards’ in CA can be spent at casinos; the DOW dropped; DC church lost half of its members because they performed a gay commitment ceremony; truck overturned on the northbound I-5 lanes, spilling its contents of lemons on the CA ‘Grapevine’; banks will not easily offer low mortgage loans; violence on the rise along the Gulf coast; storm forming in the Caribbean: if that happens, the ‘top hat’ would have to be removed; as of now, students in P’town can get condoms at school; more people losing their unemployment benefits;

Clash between civilian & military leaders over the AFG war; Australia has elected its first female PM; at least eighteen states felt the Canadian quake; an X-ray calendar, made in Japan; oil is $75.99 per barrel; gold is $1,234.10 an ounce; dead son’s ashes tattooed on mother;

…6/25–10: add a little spice to love

68º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Cumbres & Toltec bridge damaged by fire; some types of fireworks are being banned in Bernalillo CNTY; the city of ABQ vs. its firefighters’ union; sections of the Pecos River are flooding; Lavender Festival this weekend in Los Ranchos;

Left at 11:30A, ate at Owl Café; home by 3P;

Wet in: Charlotte, Twin Cities, ATL, Destin, Wilmington [NC], San Antonio, Boise, Aspen, Fargo, ABQ, Dallas, Houston & Orlando; tornado threat for IA, SD, MN and the Carolinas; bad weather along sections of I-20 & I-95; storms struck Chicago & Cleveland, but caused severe damage & power outages in NYC & Bridgeport, CT: gusts up to 80 mph were recorded; planes were toppled & tossed around while on the tarmac; the Pacific now has two hurricanes; temps from the 70s to the 110s;

Too hot for people to clean up the tar balls on the sand, oil has reached Pensacola, FL beaches; the common man vs. the big business of BP; Louisiana wants more offshore drilling projects, because these would generate jobs; 90% of Americans consume too much salt; woman set her office on fire so she could take time off from work; Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of three cereals, customers say they detected a waxy smell; couple try to sell their baby for $25; the DOW ended down; fewer couples want to have children; Starbucks will start serving alcohol; man found naked in OH library, with a large chunk of cheese he stole;

Global economic summit will be meeting in Canada;

…6/26–10: always remember, you are a wonderful person

63º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…ABQ CFO on paid Admin Leave, being paid $500 per day to do nothing; overnight rain at The Beach; crews examine Cumbres & Toltec trestle; NM bank was forced to close yesterday, but its branches will reopen next week; rollover crash on I-40, near Twelfth ST; tents that sell fireworks must have extinguishers, each item must include a ‘Caution’ & ‘Warning’ label; FED investigators will inspect & examine the warehouse fire that took place this past week; N NM Solar Musical Festival being held this weekend;

What is a YouTube ‘partnership’?; partial lunar eclipse will be visible in the W US; American town hall meeting to be held today, ideas will be written down, and sent to PRES Obama;

TS Alex is brewing in the Caribbean; the global summit discussed the threat of nuclear weapons; 6.9 quake shook the Solomon Islands; oil is $78.86 per barrel; gold is $1,255.80 an ounce;

…6/23–10: ecology, and economy

2010-06-23T17:02:00.000-07:00

69º in ABQ; 14% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; for now, Blue Cross INS premiums will not increase; sex offenders live near possible new school in ABQ; charges against Duke City attorney dropped; mock disaster will be held in ABQ today; more people want to subscribe to my website at one time, more than YouTube can handle; Deming man impersonating a police officer; I have become ‘best friend’ with a person I have never met; two shot in SW ABQ while inside a car; the Smith’s at Coors & Central has been shut down due to mouse infestation, and aisles that contained mice urine & feces; the Roswell UFO Festival ranks number five in the best US summer events;

Many doctors are on vacation; no CTI Admits;

ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: the Twin Cities, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Rapid City, JAX; New Orleans; Des Moines, Hartford, Detroit, Tallahassee, Wichita, Santa Fe, Green Bay, KC, Omaha, Cleveland & Milwaukee; twisters sighted in PA yesterday; today, tornado alerts in IL, IN, OH & MI; bad weather along I-80, I-90 & I-94; temps from the 70s to the 100s;

Jib-Jab goes rap for the Fourth of July; now, NYC has ‘the [old] naked cowgirl’; robot collided with the ‘top hat’, causing more oil to leak from the broken pipe; the man who may have talked himself out of a job; McChrystal has lost confidence in the war’s progress; should the US General in AFG be fired: if so, there are many military leaders who could replace him: and there is a new, yet old, military leader in charge of AFG forces: GEN Petraeus; AZ wildfire is 20% contained; are Americans ready for alternative energy?; Tea Party wins in UT; NE town will not allow illegal immigrants to be hired or rent property; the DOW ended slightly up; no incentives means fewer people are buying homes;

Jamaican drug lord arrested; Queen Elizabeth II has a $12 million allowance; gold is $1,234.10 an ounce; oil is $76.35 per barrel; 5.5 quake shook S Canada, felt in parts of the US; stem cell research may be on the brink of providing eyesight to the blind;

…6/21–10: peace & serenity

2010-06-22T17:08:00.000-07:00

72º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Las Cruces City MGR resigned; NM is trying to lure MX tourists into our state; local man may have a plan to stop the oil leak in the in the Gulf of MX; overnight fire at ABQ High School; power outages yesterday from high winds, and toppled trees; now, five people have died in last week’s plane crash near Ruidoso; saw Bernalillo Rail Runner stop this past weekend; Santa Fe man accused of shooting two campers; NM father murdered his two sons, then killed himself;

Has PICU added their documentation to PowerChart?; long wait at UNMH E/R; I ask for my time off, and usually for two hours per week; home via very fast PM R/R; an anniversary card from Judi, an IM Coder who used to work with me;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM news; wet in: Twin Cities, Rapid City, Omaha, Chicago, Fargo, Orlando, New Orleans, Great Falls, Detroit, INDY & Madison; hail fell on parts of WY & MT during this past weekend; heat in Tulsa, from DC to Dallas & ATL; tornadoes tore through Billings, MT, where they kept reforming: caught on video; fires threaten Flagstaff; tornado threat for MT, KS & IA; stormy weather along sections of I-10, I-80, I-90 & I-94; this is the first day of summer; temps from the 60s to 100s;

Dallas shootout killed one police officer; bacon in rainbow colors; in Chicago, fifty-two shootings during one weekend; violence on the rise in Baltimore; oil spill damage may reach $2 billion; the DOW ended down; the state with the most single dads is IN; for the Gulf along the beach: tourism is out, while tar balls are in; woman shot on IL highway while onlookers watched from their vehicles, and did nothing; the Times SQ bomber admits his guilt;

An increase in N Iraq suicide attacks; S China floods; burglar crawled under a bed to avoid being caught by police; featherless penguin gets his own suit; high amounts of radiation detected in N Korea; gold is $1,257.20 an ounce; oil is $77.00 per barrel; Portugal win in World Cup Soccer; by 2011, China will lead the world in manufacturing;

…6/22–10: the gentle sounds of silence

67º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; did someone receive a call from the W Mesa killer?; Brad made Guacamole, and Zucchini Lasagna; woman cut in the face by someone at a NW Duke City motel; pot plants found growing along the bank s of the Rio Grande; unclaimed money for Duke City schools?;

Continue GPU billing, check for PICU documentation; ran & missed the PM R/R, took the Central bus home; car driving on Central at Cornell drove through a red light; no PICU Admits;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: JAX, Cleveland, the Twin Cities, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ann Arbor, INDY, St. Louis, Omaha, Fargo, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Buffalo, Baltimore, DC & New Orleans; hot & humid in Richmond; Nashville will be warmer than ABQ; bad weather along parts of I-70, I-90, I-94 & I-95; chance of tornadoes in NE, IA, all the way to PA; per The Weather Channel; Celia is now a Category 2 hurricane; twister reported in SE FL; temps from the 70s to the 100;

‘FL beaches never looked better’ is the latest slogan; 255 fires are burning in the Gulf of MX, the smell of oil is overwhelming; Times SQ bomber faces 100 years in jail; key Obama economic aide will step down; more nurses strike in MN; grasshoppers invade CA town; total expenses by the US to clean the oil spill: $122 million; the DOW dropped; NY plans to increase its cigarette tax; a WI town’s name is misspelled on the city’s water tower; harmless grenade shuts down a Pittsburgh airport & rail station; PA man returned wedding reception money to a bride & groom, that lost the cash on a highway; sharks are moving closer to the FL shores, where the water is cleaner; judges say it is OK to drill & build more oil rigs; White House issued the “patient’s bill of rights”; some companies only want to hire people who are currently employed, and that’s not against the law;

Floods in Brazil; dog rips license plate from a car; classical violinist from Japan plays music to the beat of video games; baby broke record by wearing 215 pairs of underwear at one time; because of the World Cup victory [or, loss], will N Korea declare war on Portugal?; gold is $1,239.90 an ounce; oil is $77.50 per barrel;

…6/17–10: everybody wants to meet a person from outer space

2010-06-20T17:18:00.000-07:00

67º in ABQ; 15% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will the correct A/C part arrive today?; local man raped one year old child, other children were in the house when this attack took place; SunPort wants more nonstop flights to the E & W Coast; should money be spent to build statues in Santa Fe; Valencia CNTY meth lab busted; will the Duke City be the next Silicon Valley; construction of houses in ABQ may not be completed by the BLDG CO, due to lack of revenue; more fires burning across the state; the A/C unit arrived when I arrived from work: but it cannot go up the stairs, so the company will return tomorrow, lift it with a crane, and hopefully install the part; plane crash near Ruidoso killed two people; another blaze in the Bosque, near Belen, again; triple stabbing in Rio Rancho; Harrison Ford got married at the GOV mansion in Santa Fe;

Keep working on GPU/CTI charges; an answer for how to bill services by CTI nurse…we don’t, for now; no PICU Admits;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; snow for parts of ID & MT; wet in: Miami, Omaha, San Antonio, Fargo, St. Louis, Louisville, Des Moines, the Twin Cities & Orlando; storm brewing off the MX coast; chance of tornadoes in MN, IA, & NE; floods in S China; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

The debate over Proposition Eight in CA continues; BP CEO vs. Capitol Hill; Americans insulted by his ‘small people’ comment; barges did not have the proper safety device, so they could not be sent to the oil spill; record number of IPhone sales; Harrison Ford was married in NM; the fines & penalties against BP will be paid from a separate account; wildfires across AZ; MA man killed family members at their home; Harry Potter theme park opened in Universal Studios Orlando; the DOW ended up; hackers attacked GOOGLE webpage; American Red Cross fined $16 million for poorly screening donated blood; waves are filled with oil, brown water is crashing onto 52 miles of beaches: but no one in BP ‘acted recklessly’; people who sell kitty litter scoops, portable toilets, and the lodging industry are making lots of money from the oil spill; as politicians apologize for apologizing; female Viagra drug does not have the same power as its male counterpart; UT man will be executed by firing squad, his choice of death;

Israel will lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip; dog swallowed five toys, all were surgically removed, and the canine is OK; a waxing session nearly cost a man his ‘crown jewels’; woman left $370K in her will to a British cab driver, who used to drive her on a regular basis; gold is $1,229.30 per ounce; oil is $76.65 per barrel;

…6/18–10: choose dreams

67º in ABQ; 12% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will the A/C piece be hauled into place today?; 3½ weeks later, the part has been installed, and there is cooler air in the upper level; two year old left at a party, mother charged with abandonment; numerous blazes across NM, most are in rural areas; second Bosque fire in Belen started by truck exhaust; NATL Hispanic Cultural Art CTR reopens;

Left at 11:30, ate at the Owl Café; then to the comic book climb, then to Coronado, then Trader Joe’s…and home by 3:30P; MGR was out today;

ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Chicago, Green Bay, Omaha, Detroit, KC, Des Moines, Tampa, Lincoln [NE], Great Falls [MT], INDY, JAX, Fargo & Madison; hot & humid in Orlando, with a chance of T’storms; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-94; yesterday, tornadoes proved deadly in parts of MN, ND & IA; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

BP got grilled on Capitol Hill, no one in that company has been fired over this incident; LA Lakers won the series, and set fires in the Los Angeles streets; is methane escaping from the leak?; Campbell’s recalled some canned food items; one year old TX girl dies in an overheated parked car; the DOW was barely up; a whale has been the latest victim of the oil spill; is one of the BP executives soon to not have a job?; Louisiana postal workers were charged with opening mail, and stealing any money or gift cards;

US vs. Slovenia in the World Cup Games today; nine year old girl wrestles alligators;

…6/19–10: be colorful

66º in ABQ; 10% humidity at 6A…lunch at the Range Café with Nancy; ABQ wants to spend $11 million to change a church into a downtown performing arts CTR…at the same time the city is laying off school staff; 11K acre fire is burning near Espanola; man walked away from an uptown sports bar, with money that was being collected for charity in a jar, his actions were caught on security cameras; 34 Bernalillo CNTY inmates are ‘missing’; semi tipped over along I-25, spilling its contents of ceramic tiles across the highway, and blocking several lanes of the interstate; 6% humidity at 5P; an early to bed night tonight;

NV bank fails: the eighty third this year in the US; more oil is on fire in the Gulf of MX, controlled burns, but will the black smoke pose another health threat to those living in that area; red tape prevented foreign ships from helping in the skimming process, until now;

Turkish jets invade N Iraq; royal wedding for Sweden; is Japan drowning in debt; student’s picture removed from his yearbook because he said unkind things about his principal regarding how money had been spent;

…6/20–10: a smile can solve many problems

66º in ABQ; 14% humidity at 6A…ABQ Zoo break-in made NATL news, appearing on Facebook; four cyclists riding from PA to CA, their goal is to raise money for breast cancer awareness & treatment; twenty four hours without accessing my webpage; several Rail Runner crossings improved, more ‘safety lines added; stabbing in Santa Fe; suffered from dehydration yesterday, we have rediscovered how old we are, more rest today; Brad made Crab Cakes; woman killed while crossing a road in Santa Fe CNTY, she was wearing dark clothing, and may have been drinking; Naked Bike Ride in the City Different; there were ‘microburst’ storms across ABQ last night; Duke City man arrested twice in one week; strong winds blew across ABQ this PM; attorney Ron Bell arrested for DUI while driving his Mercedes on Tramway; local man arrested for masturbating in front of his window, which faced a pool, and was sighted by three female teenagers;

another deadly shooting at CA restaurant; more tar ball being found on more of FL beaches; LAX terminal evacuated for thirty minutes after man claimed he had a bomb; free picnic for the victims of the oil spill, hosted by local residents along the Gulf of MX: a ‘prayer day’ is being organized; as a worst case scenario, maybe 100K barrels a day are leaking into the Gulf of MX; Bellagio ads are everywhere; another stimulus plan being planned on Capitol Hill?; AZ wildfires are forcing people out of their homes; twelve injured in Chicago subway fire;

people being exposed to arsenic across Bangladesh; Hurricane Celia is moving away from the W MX coast; the French soccer team is ‘in revolt’;

…6/16–10: counting down to love

2010-06-16T16:58:00.000-07:00

67º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…GAQ; A/C should now be repaired today; please replace the correct unit: wrong part, but one was found in ‘the’ Las Vegas, and should be here tomorrow; loophole in ABQ cell phone law allows people to text while at a red light; man accused of shocking children with a cattle prod; contract worker filmed the Duke City ‘prison rap’ video; more ABQ contractors accused of embezzlement; N NM Extreme Fire Danger, and strong winds this PM; small solar cells be Sandia labs will be used to generate energy; numerous guns recovered during an undercover sting; a break-in at the ABQ Zoo;

Will I meet with my MGR today?, yes, and I told her about taking Annual Leave; AM phone call from Myrna;

ABQ fire danger mentioned on ABC AM News; humid in the SE US; wet in: Rapid City, Boston, JAX, Orlando, DC, Missoula, Erie, Buffalo, Nashville, ATL, Charlotte, Baltimore, Roanoke, Philly & NYC; bad weather along sections of I-81 & I-95; ABQ weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; flash floods in France, deluge along the Riviera; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

How will we make BP ‘pay’…if it ruins our water, our economy, and our lives?; the pipe is leaking 2.5 million gallons per day; the US is paying for BP mistakes; Obama’s speech was short on specifics; at some point, 90% of the oil should be contained; beaches smell like freshly paved roads; Louisiana is the ‘Ground Zero’ of this disaster; BP will set aside at least $20 billion to cover oil spill costs; oyster season has ended, much earlier than usual; people should add more plants to their diet; the DOW was slightly up; a recall of Benadryl & Tylenol; mothers, cocktails, painted on tans, all while watching their children; the Lakers beat the Celtics, so it’s on to the final of the finals: game seven; FL mother went to visit her boyfriend, left her children at home, alone, and with no food to eat;

N Korea will ‘smash aggressors’; I-Pad sent inside a bar of chocolate; a LEGO recreation of the soccer blunder made by the British player; solar activity & flares on the rise; several people killed in 7.0 Indonesia quake; an American, on his own, has been on a quest to kill Osama bin Laden; oil is $77.64 per barrel; gold is $1,229.30 an ounce;

…6/14–10: live in quality

2010-06-15T17:14:00.000-07:00

57º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; summer school starts in ABQ; Brad does not want me to give up my YouTube site; arson suspected as the cause of the Bosque blaze; 50% of the Duke City water will no longer come from aquifers, but be surface water;

Weekend fire at UNM frat house; spent the day telling people what happened to Myrna & Evelyn; the other seats in my room are uncomfortable; people still calling Myrna & Evelyn’s phones; all the other monitors & hard drives are gone from that room; first rattlesnake bite reported this year;

Wet in: OKC, St. Louis, Cleveland, JAX, Pittsburgh; OKC, Chicago, Denver, Omaha, INDY, Des Moines, Toledo, Wichita, Tulsa & New Orleans; bad weather along parts of I-70 & I-80; heavy rains fell across OK; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Women’s purse was stolen: inside were the ashes of her deceased uncle; BP oil barrel appeared on a beach, oil has reached Louisiana beaches, Obama will speak to both BP, and the American public, this is his fourth trip to the Gulf of MX; the spill is being compared to an epidemic, as Gulf temps are too hot to form tar ball, just sludge; another oil mess, this time in SLC, caused by a broken pipe belonging to Chevron, 21K gallons have leaked; Lois Lane statue unveiled in Metropolis, IL; 2010 slavery occurring in DC?; the US wants BP to create an escrow account; four countries will help clean up our spill; end the era of ‘mixed messages’; beached fuel being shipped to landfills; sensors are being placed in the Gulf of MX to determine how much oil has spilled, and is spilling into the water; BP has now spent $1.6 billion dollars cleaning up this mess; more blue water is turning black; the smell of oil is in the Gulf beach air; American passports security chips are being made in Thailand; medical costs will rise again this year; Jimmy Dean has died at the age of 81 years old; Celtics beat the Lakers; woman safely jumped from her vehicle after it kept accelerating;

Riots in Kyrgyzstan; gold is $1,223.20 an ounce; oil is $74.85 per barrel; $1 trillion of lithium & copper is underneath AFG; satellite which had landed on an asteroid fell to Earth in A;

…6/15–10: comfort, in quality

64º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Ozone Days for ABQ; hotel in Socorro a haven for Legionnaires Disease; the owner of that lodging is both a doctor, and the mayor; another officer involved shooting in the Duke City; should landmines be placed along the MX/NM border?; the fire near Belen is 80% contained; Sandia Labs worker accused of watching child porn;

Meet the MGR in my office at 8:30A, too much money in last week’s paycheck, she never showed up, but asked to meet at my convenience; no PICU ADMITs; Brad could hear the phone ringing in my office;

Wet in: Raleigh, INDY, Orlando, Tulsa, Milwaukee, Birmingham [AL], the Twin Cities, Great Falls [MT], Dallas, KC, Fargo, Green Bay, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Memphis & Wichita; bad weather along sections of I-20, I-35, I-40, I-44 & I-75; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Gulf oil well had been labeled a ‘nightmare’: Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office; all rainfall records broken in OKC; the DOW ended up; man stole puppets from a FL school; did BP ‘cut corners’ when building the disastrous oilrig?; people in that area want to see more visible assistance; no swimming allowed in NW FL beaches; sandbags being dropped along the Louisiana shore; fire on an oil drill ship; does ‘BP’ stand for ‘beach polluter’?; now, 60K barrels per day is leaking from the broken pipe; time to create a ‘Gulf Recovery Czar’?; the flow will stop by the end of the month?; a comprehensive energy reform package is needed; Spirit Airlines pilots are on strike until at least Thursday; ‘deadly’ ice cream recalled by Kroger; 5.7 quake shook S CA during a baseball game, no damages or injuries reported;

Woman stuffed a goat into her car trunk; BP stock has lost half its value; N Korea threatens war against its southern neighbor; oil is $76.94 per barrel; gold is $1,233.20 an ounce;

…6/13–10: live in comfort

2010-06-13T17:01:00.000-07:00

58º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…the Bosque is burning in Valencia CNTY, fueled by plenty of dry brush; AM walk into Olde Towne; the economic recovery for NM will probably be in 2011; there are four fires burning in the Santa Fe NATL forest; a mud volleyball game was held to raise money for Carrie Tingley HOSP; WWII bomb found near Hobbs; Santa Fe bought a ranch, costing lots of money, but the city has no use for the structure; this was an “I’m homesick for the green” weekend; NM jail employee arrested on ID theft charges; fire near Belen is now threatening structures: inmates are being used to cut the brush, and build fire lines; another blaze is burning near Belen; $200K has been given to the NM film program; KOAT has gone widescreen;

BP told to speed up the cleaning proves; lung cancer is the deadliest form of that illness; Phoenix restaurant raided by police, illegal immigrants may have been working there;

6.1 quake shook Japan; Russian spaceship preparing to launch, heading for the INTL Space Station;

…6/12–10: the path to infinity

2010-06-12T19:25:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…my PC reconfigured itself?; free fishing classes held at Tingley Beach this AM; Hard Rock Casino opens on the Isleta Pueblo, the seventh franchise in the world; MDC inmates made a rap video while in jail, their tune appeared on YouTube; fire yesterday at an abandoned meat packing plant, which contained tanks filled with ammonia: there were no fire hydrants close to the blaze; Extreme Fire & High Wind Advisories across all of NM; man texted naked pictures of himself to an eleven year old girl; ABQ Gay Pride Parade shown on KOAT; UNM Cancer CTR has officially opened; Brad prepared a Shrimp Stew; strong winds tore power poles down, causing outages in parts of the city; NM graduation rate has increased, especially among Native Americans;

Police standoff in Sacramento; today, severe weather from TX to PA; Spirit Airlines has gone on strike; gas & shrimp prices may increase because of the oil spill; fatal Seattle APT fire; flash floods have killed at least eighteen people in AR campsite, moving, cars, vans & trailers; OH strip club raised money for Haiti quake victims, and local residents whose homes were damaged by tornadoes;

The BP incident has ‘strained’ US–UK relations; more than thirty countries will compete in the World Cup Soccer Games, VP Biden is attending the event; 7.5 quake off the coast of India, at a depth of 22 miles below the surface: no injuries or severe damages was reported, and there were no tsunamis reported;

…6/5–10: add flavor to life

2010-06-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

68º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A…a NM soldier has died while fighting in Iraq; a Heat Advisory for a large section of NM: temps could reach 100º in cities that have never experienced that warmth before; Brad made Friend Cheese, and it was quite tasty; ABQ is under this temperature extreme from noon to 7P; a Las Cruces bank exec faces DUI charges for driving a new Corvette while drunk; because the A/C is not working upstairs, we watched our taped shows during the early AM; a good night’s rest helped; we have also enjoyed Peas from Brad’s garden; more furlough days for NM state workers?; Bosque Farms police officer charged with attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants; ABQ reached 100º, the earliest day since the late 1800s’; free fishing lessons at Tingley Beach today; NM jockey won the Belmont Stakes;

World Science Festival is being held in NYC this weekend; Obama under investigation?; woman fired from high-level bank position because she looked & dressed too sexy?; freeze the oil, then remove it from the sand?; driver’s car flew in the air as it approached an airport tollbooth; tornadoes reported in WA state; small plane crashed into a Long Island office BLDG, the pilot suffered severe burns;

Israeli forces board Gaza aid vessel; the Pope met with Muslim leaders in Cyprus;

…6/6–10: where there is hope, there is life

75º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…shooting near Ninth & Gold in SW ABQ; house fire in NE ABQ, SW Duke City APT fire; yesterday, Santa Fe reached 100º; fraud & ID theft ring still thrives in the Duke City; another Heat Advisory day for parts of NM, including ABQ; car with a NC tourist drove across the median on I-40 between Gallup & Grants, struck a semi, killing the smaller vehicle’s driver; Brad made Green Beans with a Garlicky Sherry Vinegar Dressing…quite tasty; chance of PM T’storms across NM; Navajo Fair never paid taxes to Shiprock; the Duke City had its warmest ‘low temp’ on record for today;

US cigarettes have more cancer causing carcinogens than foreign brands; cardboard boat races were held in St. Louis; ‘Heroes’, as a miniseries?; two NJ residents arrested at JFK Airport: they were heading to Somalia, in an attempt to create a jihad; several tornadoes struck IL; storms flattened Toledo, OH homes;

Man walked down the length of the Amazon River, avoiding the electric eels, and the bugs that release a brain deteriorating parasite when they bite you;

…6/7–10: hopeful love

75º in ABQ; 31% humidity at 6A…80º at 4A, thunder heard during the night at The Beach; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Jemez Springs fire is 100% contained; two people were shot at the K-Mart on Central & Atrisco; PNM reports power outages across the Duke City; solar power to be used at Santa Fe water treatment plant; Brad added Fruit to Jell-O; water in an arroyo may flow at speeds up to thirty mph; no more student intern program for Duke City schools; ABQ has added ‘safety procedures’ that may prevent racial profiling;

How busy was the HOSP this past weekend?; no PM Blue at the HOSP, so I walked across the campus, then caught the PM Blue Line, and finally walked from Olde Towne to home; alone, again;

Heat Wave across the SW US continues; chance of AM storms in NM; wet in: Orlando, Tampa, Houston, Cheyenne, ABQ [T’storms], KC, Wichita, Casper, Des Moines, OKC & Omaha; deadly twisters across OH this past weekend; wet along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-70; chance of tornadoes today in KS; ABQ temp & weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel, and ABC AM News; temps from the 60s to the 110s;

Celtics beat the Lakers in Game Two; gas pipeline explosion in TX; people pray for an answer to the oil spill; residents see very few workers picking up tar balls from beaches, this sludge may remain along the Gulf of MX until autumn; scuba divers are covered in oil; tourism dollars on the decline in W FL; man killed four women, then himself, at a Miami restaurant; people upset about bikini clad servers at CO coffee shop; the DOW ended down; Oyster Festival in New Orleans during this past weekend; Elton John performed at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding?; now, it may take ‘years’ before the Gulf Coast returns to normal; more people have a negative attitude on how the US FED GOVT is handling the oil spill, than the public did regarding the Katrina cleanup; only 115 boats are actually skimming oil; inhaling crude oil vapors could cause cancer; the Tea Party wants the US to pull out of the UN, and abolish the IRS; new APPLE I-Phone will be revealed today;

Printer made from LEGO blocks & felt tip pen; German soccer team was flown to the World Cup Games via an Airbus 300; Hungary may be the next country with economic problems; oil is $71.99 per barrel; N Korea has a new premier?; mobs storm the gates at the World Cup Soccer Games in S Africa; gold is $1,239.30 an ounce; Brazil will participate in the World Cup;

…6/8–10: captivate audiences

68º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…Brad’s CT scan; are electric billboards a distraction?; Sandia Valley APT complex: a constant crime scene; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; improvements on the I-25/Paseo del Norte interchange have been put on hold; NM rapist arrested in NE; tax amnesty for NM residents will last until September, 2010; how can NM revive its economy; wireless microphones can no longer be used in local churches, a new FCC law will require the frequency to be used only by fire & police DEPTs; this is Monsoon Awareness Week; an invitation to a beach house in Cape May, NJ;

Continue on a new way to create billing sheets;

ABQ temp mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Palm Beach, St. Louis, Dallas, Fargo, CO Springs; Omaha, KC, Topeka, Des Moines, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities, Chicago, Detroit, Orlando, INDY & Rapid City; chance of twisters for CO, KS, MO & IL; ‘training effect’ of storms across the Plains; bad weather along parts of I-35 & I-90; UT faces floods; there was a confirmed tornado in VT; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Couple married in a shark tank; health advisories posted along Gulf beaches; animals coated in oil are cleaned with soap & water, then blow dried; OR child still missing after a Science Fair; consumer borrowing is up; NY man plotted a Columbine type attack on his former high school; the DOW ended up; another pipeline explosion in TX; thirteen FED agencies involved to clean up one oil spill; no media or video cameras are allowed to enter the BP offices in Louisiana; one small AL town, nine barges, working together to stop the sludge; so far, there have been no reported seafood contamination; will this be the year of the [R] woman?; the Tea Party is losing its steam; MA teacher may have found a 1792 document when cleaning her classroom; BLDG collapsed in KC, killing one person; GM recalls 1.4 million vehicles; Chrysler recalls 350K vehicles; too many independent O/P surgery centers across the US;

These have been the deadliest days in AFG, which is now America’s longest war; IPod used in magical tricks; Sand Festival being held in Germany; dogs in China painted to look like tigers; remains of Roman gladiators discovered in N England; the US & Portugal will also participate in the World Cup Soccer Games;

…6/9–10: take a breath…and take the time to enjoy life

71º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow, Moderate Air Quality; ice cream man accused of pointing a gun at a customer in ABQ; 300 ‘short-term’ Duke City school employees may lose their jobs; hot weather means more bears & cougars invading NM campsites & Picnic areas; NM movie prop shop is closing due to lack of business; NM DUI Resource Centers may lose funding; several ABQ employees involved in a kickback scheme; several Duke City summer events may be cancelled due to budget cuts; Navajo Nation opposes AZ immigration law; Espanola classroom beating between teens was caught on camera, students prevented the teacher from breaking up the fight; a little cooler across NM;

Prepare for the Specialist charges…not yet; walked across the campus, took the PM Red R/R; NICU & PICN are full; Code Purple at 11:30A;

Wet in: Denver, Cheyenne, NYC, Roanoke, KC, Chicago, San Antonio, Little Rock, Nashville, St. Louis, Casper, Cincinnati, DC, ATL, Philly, Houston & Louisville; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

People along the Gulf of MX are preparing for the worst case scenario; new ‘clouds’ appearing in the water; animals are now dead after eating other animals who were in the sludge area; people with health problems, or pregnant women, should not visit, swim or fish along FL beaches; there is a NATL daycare shortage; Lakers beat the Celtics; boy drank beer during a baseball game?; it was ladies’ night, as women sweep the primaries; vintage airplane flips over at NATL Airport; broken sewage line causing a stink near Boston; a Wal-Mart employee is accused of infecting other workers with measles; the DOW ended down; homes built during the 1990s do not have energy efficient windows; thick oil has reached the shore: consider this as the ‘first wave’; vacuuming the sledge is being used;

‘Baby Gaga’ appeared in mother’s music video; more sanctions against Iran?; MX teenager shot by US border patrol near El Paso; BP stock has lost 50% of its value; very little time & money has been spent on oil spill research answers;

…6/10–10: being ‘alive’, an important asset

77º in ABQ; 13% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Rio Rancho approves the use of Red Light Cameras; woman found dead inside the trunk of her car; Valencia CNTY deputy found filling his personal vehicle with county gas; Rio Rancho residents face more taxes; woman accidentally drove her car into an ABQ physical therapy clinic; killer bees in Carlsbad; N NM Extreme Fire Danger; three fires burning in the Santa Fe NATL Forest; deadly motorcycle crash near Carlisle & Central; we ate supper on our front porch; this AM, SWAT situation at Lomas & Eubank; 7% humidity at 5P;

Ready for the specialists; took care of ID charges; questioned about pended items;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in Boston, Miami, ATL, St. Louis, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Omaha & Shreveport; tornado threat for NE, CO & SD; hot & humid in New Orleans; floods for TX & WY; bad weather for parts of I-20, I-35, I-40 & I-45; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

The credit card that eliminates airline baggage fees; did BP ever test its contingency plans, and is the company going bankrupt, with its stock value at a fourteen month low; dark crude oil is appearing in Louisiana marshes; 12K MN nurses are on strike; 45 million Americans do not have dental INS; NE man strangled by his pet snake; the DOW ended up; red tape vs. black oil; the new amount of oil that has leaked into the Gulf of MX is much higher than what is being reported [surprised?]; 100K Gulf workers may be unemployed for a long period of time; the man in charge has been fired, after it was determined that hundreds of bodies have been ‘misplaced’ or ‘misidentified’ at Arlington NATL Cemetery; twelve year old MD girl arrested, charged with being a prostitute;

Iran ignoring sanctions; a 100 year old woman is the world’s table tennis champ; 5,500 year old leather shoe found in Armenia; suicide bombing during AFG wedding; S Korean rocket exploded during liftoff; will BP drown in debt;

…6/11–10: appreciated enthusiasm

70º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; A/C should be repaired today; officer involved shooting in NE ABQ; 911 service was out in parts of SE NM; Gay Pride Weekend in ABQ; another ‘massive’ drug bust in NM; the 911 system in Socorro is being updated, this prevented the women, who was inside the trunk of her car, to be rescued; FED grant will help update NM airports; delay in repairs: our A/C will be fixed next Wednesday; structure fire near Broadway, Second & I-25: people evacuated from that area;

Left work at 11:30A; ate at Saggio’s; home about 3P; filming in downtown Duke City;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; snow in MT & WY; wet in: Des Moines, Little Rock, OKC, Twin Cities, Omaha, Chicago, Nashville, Myrtle Beach; Denver, ATL, Miami, Orlando, Green Bay, Sioux Falls, Tampa & Knoxville; bad weather along areas of I-20, I-75 & I-80; very hot & humid in New Orleans; chance of tornados in CO, NE, KS & IA; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

The Arlington Cemetery scandal: Army in disgrace, map to locate gravesites is inaccurate; man was wearing a T-shirt ‘Cleverly Disguised as a Responsible Adult’ when he was arrested for attacking another person; the media is reporting that twice as much oil is spilling into the Gulf of MX, the amount leaked is in the billions of gallons, and BP workers are told not to speak to the media; the Celtics won; minorities are increasing in the US; train carrying chemicals derailed in SC; 1K NYC students walked out of their classes when told they would no longer be given free transit passes; a proposal to ban peanuts on flights;

The World Cup Soccer Games start in S Africa; VW recalled 16K minivans; ‘sun storms’ could cause ‘global electronic havoc’;

…6/1–10: refreshing weather

2010-06-05T09:57:00.001-07:00

60º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…YDDC guard attacked by inmate; three fires are burning in SW NM; primary elections being held today; SE ABQ APT complex fire; Brad had PM vertigo, it faded away by dinnertime; early to bed for us tonight; new fire burning near Jemez Springs; PNM asking for a 21% rate hike, which will become effective April, 2011;

Hell Week, Day One, the political campaign signs on the UNM campus are gone; saw Richard, who resumed his regular shift;

Twisters across CO yesterday; wet for NE & KS: and in Boston, Charlotte, Tampa, New Orleans, Twin Cities, Yellowstone, Albany, Buffalo, Seattle, Raleigh, Miami, the FL Keys, Fargo, KC, Newark & ATL; bad weather along I-20 & I-81; today starts the hurricane season; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Creator of Trivial Pursuit has died at the age of 59 years old; another ‘top hat’ attempt will be tried by BP; there were never any contingency plans for deep sea disasters by the oil company; other rigs in the Gulf are shutting down, employees complaining about their health; one women was paid to sit 700 silent hours, staring at people across a table, in MOMA; the I-Phone feature that makes you look fat; gas prices should not rise above $3 per gallon this summer; the DOW ended down; now, gays in the military could pose a religious threat?; Wal-Mart is slashing their prices to entice more customers; HP will cut 3K jobs; after forty years of marriage, Al & Tipper Gore are separating; BP will use a diamond wire saw to slow the flow; 34.3 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of MX: the cleanup may continue until Thanksgiving; the killing of a culture: the marshlands will not return once they are killed; fake cop pulled over a real deputy; polls show people do not like either [D] or [R];

Agatha has killed at least 175 people, and created a sinkhole under a BLDG in Guatemala City; forest fires burning near Montreal; Israel is involved in an INTL incident; the number three leader of al Qaeda may have been killed in AFG; because of the Gulf incident, BP has had ‘free publicity’, but not the right kind: it share value plummeted around the world; oil is $74.06 per barrel; gold is $1,224.80 an ounce;

…6/2–10: it only takes a moment to be polite to someone

62º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…GAQ; crime unit at Louisiana & Indian School this AM; NM will have a female GOV, as Susana Martinez won the [R] primary; burglar used a fishing rod & reel to steal money from a bank’s night deposit box; repairman said our A/C needs a part, two days before a super heat wave will arrive in NM; KAFB military officer faces child porn charges; thieves stole camping items for muscular dystrophy children, whose summer camp starts next week; 8% humidity at 6P;

Hell Week, Day Two; bus AM Bus stop; UNM nurse has bookmarked my YouTube site; Richard goes to the same comic book store that I do;

ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Miami, Cleveland, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, Louisville, St. Charles, Rapid City, Seattle, Denver, Yellowstone, Chicago, INDY, KC, Pittsburgh, Orlando, ATL & Charlotte; tornadoes from TX to OH; bad weather along sections of I-65 & I-70; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

Are Ford vehicles suffering from pedal problems?; can hemlines predict the weather?; the spill is now three times the size of the Exxon Valdez; BP has spent $1 billion to clean up the Gulf of MX; have any environmental laws been broken?; tar balls have reached AL shores, the next target could be the FL coast; plane crashed into Anchorage home, killing a boy; another ‘risky attempt by BP today to stop the oil: saw got stuck in the broken pipe; the spill is seven miles from Pensacola Beach, FL; former Beatle received PRES entertainment award; the Brooklyn Bridge is getting a $500 million facelift, and paint job; the DOW ended up; more people paying their staff to keep in shape;

Japan PM will resign; a cheese rolling contest in England; at least twelve people have been killed when a man goes on a shooting rampage in England; peace talks are continuing in AFG; topless maids for hire; Egypt opens its border with Gaza; BP earns $67 million per day, and is spending $23 million on a daily basis to clean this mess; handguns are banned in Britain;

…6/3–10: comfortable air

62º in ABQ; 19% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; cut myself while shaving; millions of gallons of water is missing in Belen; N NM fire has burned over 1,900 acres, and is only 10% contained; 77 year old woman did not surrender her purse to robbers, even after being dragged across the pavement of a parking lot; Valencia CNTY official drove his vehicle into a Belen BLDG; car fire in NE ABQ; the Duke City school budget for 2010–2011 has been approved; dead body found in NE ABQ; we are not making PNM happy; but, a part for our A/C has been located on the E Coast, should arrive next week; no new school district for the W Side of the Duke City; NM students participate in NATL Spelling Bee;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; walked across the UNM Campus, and took the Red Line home, and talked to Steve;

Wet for: NYC, Tallahassee, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Orlando, OKC, INDY, ID Falls, Tulsa, Louisville, Houston, Boston, Philly, DC, Richmond, ATL & Providence; rain along sections of I-95; tornado threat for: NE, KY, SD, MA, AR & OK; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Six barrier islands will be built, at a cost of $360 million: BP admits failure, and says a clean cut, by giant shears, is needed to cap the pipe; 90K sq. miles of the Gulf is now ‘off limits’ to fishing: is either nuking, or using the military, an alternative to solving this problem?; US sends BP a bill for $69 million; pelicans are covered from sludge; workers who get ill from being around the spill will not have to worry about being fired, they should be seen by a doctor; all you need is soap & water to remove oil from your body; the DOW was slightly up; Rue McClanahan has died from a stroke at the age of 76; a sinkhole has appeared along I-44 in Tulsa; NY will allow civil unions for same–sex couples; Maytag, Amana & Jenn-Air recalled 1.7 million dishwashers; boy saved from electrical shock…thanks to the ‘Croc’ shoes he was wearing; Paul McCartney received Library of Congress Award;

‘Iron Boy’ video is the newest YouTube hit; Palestinian activists released by Israel;

…6/4–10: everyone deserves a piece of peace

59º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s early AM Chiro visit; residents in a NE ABQ mobile home park have six months to move; the ABQ BioPark is donating fur to help soak up the oil spill; the fire near Jemez is now 35% contained; the Lobos baseball team is heading to the NCAA playoffs; two children fell out of a second floor window in a Rio Rancho home; ABQ mayor will sign the new budget; the ‘weekend of rest’ begins; NM has the largest number of pecan orchards in the world, a nut favored by Turkish people; seven ABQ schools around the city have been vandalized in the past five days, the thieves have mainly stolen laptops; the JC Penny circular for the Duke City is in rainbow colors; Michael Astorga has been found guilty of murdering a police officer; SWAT situation at an E ABQ hotel;

Comic book ‘skip’ week; an empty AM R/R; all alone;

Wet in: DC, Orlando, ATL, New Orleans, Chicago, Des Moines, Seattle, Baton Rouge, Pittsburgh, Wichita, Baltimore, Houston, Yellowstone, Charlotte, KC & the Twin Cities; tornado threat for KS, IL, WI & MI; wet along sections of I-10, I-70, I-80 & I-94; NATL Airport was temporarily shut down, due to heavy rains & T’storms; temps from the 60s to the 100s;

Cadmium has been discovered in McDonald’s ‘Shrek’ glasses; fewer Americans are in prison; the PRES visits the Gulf of MX for a third time; the oil could impact VA beaches; the cut was not ‘clean’, but jagged; the oil has been sighted near Destin & Panama City, FL; oil & tourism do not mix; oil is currently capped, via a 5K ft. steel pipeline; BP is unsure if its latest attempt will work; shale gas well erupted in W PA; Wal–Mart will add 500K jobs?; the DOW dropped 323+ points; tar balls have appeared on the AL & NE FL coast, whose beaches are still ‘open for business’: people have been told not to touch them; an increase in interracial couples; the ‘relief well’ is still two months away from completion; unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%: 431K jobs were added, the highest number in a decade, but most of them are for the 2010 Census: these jobs will end during this summer; Yosemite NATL Park will offer free admission this weekend; the cap is in place, but oil is still leaking; HAZMAT outfits have to be worn when walking on Louisiana beaches; Chrysler has recalled 25K cars; a seven year old boy survived a seven story fall from a FL APT complex;

More Americans are accused of supplying to money to Middle East terrorist groups; oil is $71.96 per barrel; gold is $1,216.20 an ounce; Lady Gaga may have lupus; the US wished a happy birthday to Queen Elizabeth II…but one week earlier than the actual date;

…5/28–10: people pleasures

2010-05-31T17:03:00.000-07:00

64º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s dentist visit; it’s “time” for me to get a new watch; NM county pools will remain open; GE plant will shut down in ABQ; another local meth bust, this time in NW ABQ; a SE Duke City office BLDG copper theft; small PM T’storm; Gallup mayor is suing that city’s newspaper about a reported rape by him that occurred more than fifty years ago;

UNMMG Summer Picnic; a hug from Geri; campaign signs across UNM campus…is that legal?; long wait for Menaul bus, arrived home after 5:30P;

ABQ temps & weather conditions mentioned on both the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; wet in: Seattle, Norfolk, Louisville, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, DC, Richmond, Baltimore, Miami, Cheyenne, ATL & Orlando; severe mid-Atlantic storms from DC to GA; a tornado reported in VT; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

The House votes to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; after 71 years, the Mercury line of vehicles may come to an end; more people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend; some of the oil spill has reached W FL area, as the ‘t0p kill’ method’ has started again, as much as 38 million gallons may have leaked into Gulf waters; convenience store robber claimed to be a vampire; there are at least 350K graves in Arlington Cemetery; PA MED CTR used the same needle on several pediatric patients; get ready for pizza & toast to display football team logos; Gary Coleman is dead at age 42 from a brain hemorrhage; and the DOW is down again;

The start of talks on the Korean peninsula; volcano erupt in Guatemala & Ecuador; the US death toll in the AFG war has reached 1K;

…5/29–10: comfortable silence

60º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…there is limited ‘private sector business’ in NM; major meth bust in Farmington; students launched a huge rocket 8K feet into space; a CA woman shot & killed herself on I-10 in NM, while she was driving, and her daughter [who was not injured] was in the vehicle; another TV series will be filmed in NM; we enjoyed an AM walk into Olde Towne; Brad prepared Moroccan Chicken, and Tomato Aspic; Dennis Hopper has died from cancer at the age of 74: he loved N NM while filming ‘Easy Rider’, and became a resident of this state; the upstairs A/C is not working; we enjoyed watching ‘Sherlock Holmes’; Brad also made Deviled Eggs; UV Nightclub has closed;

Obama toured a Louisiana beach yesterday; Tea Party candidate says children born in the US to illegal immigrants should not be allowed to become American citizens by birth; websites illegally allowing people to read comic books online for free; while Americans may be traveling during the summer, they will be spending less on vacations; the Celtics move into the final playoffs; immigration protest rally held in Phoenix; abusive, vulgar, offensive statements by debt collectors; ‘top kill’ method has failed: black oil is seeping from the leak on Day 40; authorities say, ‘the coast is clear’, but tourists are avoiding both the Gulf waters…and its beaches;

Near TX, pirates roam the waters along the US/MX border?; S American volcanoes shut down airports;

…5/30–10: optimistic light

57º in ABQ; 17% humidity at 6A…tire fire near First & Coal Streets; NM is promoting ecotourism; double shooting in Hobbs; father killed his young son in their N NM home; hand gliding events are being held in Alamogordo, the Rio Grande Soaring Association; man exposed himself to young girls in various stores across ABQ; Valencia CNTY candidates owe $68K in unpaid property taxes; filming in downtown Duke City; the ABQ Wine Festival being held this weekend; 6% humidity at 5P; we enjoyed watching the ‘Star Trek’ movie; illegal drugs being sold in N NM nutrition store; renovations on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Angel Fire, NM have been completed;

The Lakers vs. the Celtics for the NBA championship; 25 million gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of MX; the oil company’s credibility gap is widening; there have been 760 safety violations at its US fuel sites; what is the next plan ’B’ for BP?; actually, it is ‘Plan Number Seven’: use robotic arms to make a smaller hole, and cap that; personal debt stress is on the rise in America; BP did bus in workers during Obama’s visit; the INDY 500 taking place at the Brickyard today; wildfires burning in AK; radioactive leak at VT nuclear plant; a chemical odor caused the evacuation of Union Station in DC; man killed a woman & himself at a NC TARGET store;

British Airways flight crews may be going on strike; Pacific hurricane has killed at least 80 people in Central America; another flight diverted, this time between MX & France, due to a ‘person of interest’;

…5/31–10: water works

64º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…Duke City man slashed his girlfriend with a knife; local payday loan office charged nearly 650% interest; there has been an increase of domestic violence across NM; water pipe burst at a Duke City APT complex near 14th & Lomas, resulting in mold to form on walls; truck slammed into a power in NW ABQ, resulting in a power outage for about 500 nearby residents; our gray chair has a new home; the Dona Ana CNTY Detention CTR is full; gas is $2.55 per gallon; bad economy means more NM residents are enlisting in the military; 6% humidity at 5P;

Car powered by Coca-Cola & candy?; SE US tourism being hampered by online videos saying oil has reached the beaches?; the leak could continue until August, 2010; criminal investigation by the US against BP?: another, darker plume has been detected; paint from the PRES podium falls off during his speech in IL, where a T’storm was taking place; rubber band bracelets are the newest fad in schools, students wearing several on one arm;

Did Israel attack Palestinian aid ship that was heading to Gaza in INTL waters?: self defense vs. attacks by humanitarian boats…is this the start of a diplomatic crisis, as protests are held around the globe over this incident; no injuries reported after a 6.0 quake shook the Philippines; Germany PRES has resigned; volcanic eruption in the N Mariana Islands;

…5/27–10: turn to the hands of time

2010-05-27T17:18:00.001-07:00

65º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; one local family has to made 88 domestic violence calls to the police; teen set Espanola house on fire; the 100 Days & Nights DUI program will start tonight, the NM GOV will address this topic at UNM this PM; NM NATL Guard will patrol the MX border; it will cost $100 million to clean up the KAFB oil spill; PM T’storms around ABQ;

Continued working on Cardiology & GI charges; missed the PM Blue Line R/R; no CTI Admits; Code Purple at 1:30P;

Wet in: NYC, INDY, SLC, Portland [OR], San Fran, Great Falls [MT], Columbus [OH]; Orlando, Miami, Sacramento, Tampa, St. Louis, Spokane, Philly, DC & Baltimore; storms in MT, and parts of the mid-Atlantic; snow in the Sierras; hail fell on CO, piled a foot deep, followed by downpours; bad weather along sections of I-70 & I-81; will 2010 be an ‘active’ hurricane season?; temps from the 60s to 90s;

Louisiana wants the US GOVT to take charge of the oil cleanup, the public is blaming Obama for not doing enough, fisherman are becoming ill from the sludge & the fumes, 22K people are helping to clean the oil spill: more mud is gushing from the leak, than into the broken pipe; oil has surged out from the leak five times than had been previously reported, as much as 19K barrels per day; BP has halted their current method of capping the output, and are ‘less optimistic’: the company has one of the worst records of problems at their oil sites; there is now another large oil plum in the Gulf of MX, a 3,300 foot Arctic oil drilling has been suspended; this has become the worst oil spill in US history; the hypersonic jet test was successful; “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” vote could take place in Congress today; the DOW ended up;Is S Korea preparing for war?; German robbers fail to blow up an ATM machine; French workers go on strike; 7.2 quake shook the Pacific island of Vanuatu, its epicenter was twelve miles deep; gold is $1,211.90 per ounce; oil is $74.10 per barrel;

…5/25–10: do your body a favor…

2010-05-26T17:23:00.000-07:00

44º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ABQ Studios now owes $334K in unpaid property taxes, plus accrued interest; the ABQ City Council has approved a budget, now it goes to the mayor; 34 acres have burned in the Bosque, the blaze is 35% contained; our new diet contains much less sodium than previous ones; possible severe weather, including a chance of tornadoes for Roosevelt, Chavez & Lea counties; local mother accused of child abuse; NM student in DC for NATL Geographical Bee; studio fire in NE ABQ, which house movie costumes;

Higher production amounts, lower turnaround times; AM R/R broken down at least three times;

Wet in: Orlando, Savannah, Caribou, KC, Little Rock, Amarillo, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Billings, OKC, San Antonio, Wichita, Omaha, Tulsa & St. Louis; parts of I-40 were shut down due to stalled cars driving through heavy downpours; bad weather across sections of I-20, I-40 & I-70; hot in New England; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

An inexpensive, but deadly heroin has been found in the US; an increase in the oil tax produced both domestically, and from around the world; GA in deep trouble for having four students dress in KKK robes during class; putting the pressure on the oil spill, words are not enough; the oyster boats are idle, and another day of delay, as the slick moves closer to the FL coast; will the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy be repealed in Congress?; robber captured, thanks to his tattoo, which read “East Side 13”; violent crime is down in the US; the BP problem is now called “Obama’s Katrina”, the sludge in the sand; the DOW ended down; Obama will send troops to the MX border; Phoenix, the epicenter of immigration reform; AT&T digital phone lines crashed across America; OH woman used her five year old son to break into homes, breaking windows, and sliding him between the broken glass; the female Viagra; the FDA warns against certain GI medicines; the oil spill is not getting better yet, the next attempt to solve the problem has a 70% chance to correct the situation: or, it could make the mess worse, as chemical sludge is appearing 25 feet below the sea level, and skin should not be exposed to this water;

Elephant drank the water out of a whirlpool at a whirlpool in an Africa resort; tanker collision near Singapore, causing more fuel to leak into more water; plane crashed into BLDG near Toronto, CN; is the Canadian UFO really a hoax?; an unmanned hypersonic jet was tested today, reaching speeds of Mach 6; tensions are rising on the Korean peninsula; there is uncertainty around the world; some injuries were reported when a plane from London to Los Angeles encountered turbulence, forcing the plane to land in Montreal;

…5/26–10: from play, to pay

57º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the day the water bottle broke; city inspections examined The Beach APTS; Valley Fever caused by fungus is prevalent in valleys; two animals in Santa Fe CNTY test positive for plague; film warehouse fire destroyed most of the costumes & props, items that were not insured; three car crash in ABQ injured a child; ABQ students were carrying a variety of drugs while they were at school; Santa Fe & Rio Rancho try to balance their budgets; Brad making Crab Soup; NM GOV in DC for a climate change conference;

Work on GI & Pulmonary charges; forgot lunch medications at home;

Wet in Davenport, Denver, Rapid City, Albany, Miami, Omaha, Cheyenne, Mobile, Knoxville, KC, Santa Fe, Madison, New Orleans, & Charleston, SC; showers along the Carolina coast; rain along parts of I-35, I-40 & I-91; twisters in KS last night; NM storms mentioned on the Weather Channel; hot temps & severe storms for New England; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

End of an environment: build barrier islands, or plug the hole; the ‘Gulf Geyser’, with the latest fix being captured on film; darker oil is leaking again; power outage cased oil to spill from AK pipeline; bus drivers get spit on in NYC; in the tech world, APPLE has surged ahead of Microsoft; CA postman saved a mother & child from a house fire; Art Linkletter has died at the age of 97; shortage of paint for highway lines; the DOW ended down; the next attempt by BP is the ‘top kill’ technique: seventeen countries have offered aid, and local fisherman are anxious to help;

6.1 quake shook S Japan; the space shuttle Atlantis safely landed this AM; Tiesto has played at the Olympic Games; frogs clog Greek highway; oil is $71.37 per barrel; gold is $1,213.30 an ounce; 93 million hits on the first Susan Boyle YouTube site;

…5/23–10: business before treasure

2010-05-24T16:59:00.001-07:00

56º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…another day of high winds & extreme fire danger; a Repo man shot someone as he was trying to retrieve a vehicle; Brad is in a creative Jell-O mood, from mixed fruit to orange juice; NM jobless rate has dropped to 8.7%, and the state will be receiving more FED funds to pay the unemployed; fire burns near Carlsbad Caverns; a helmet & rifle removed from a NM Vietnam Memorial have been located in an APT complex; the series ‘In Plain Sight’ is filmed in NM;

Nationwide recall of one company’s alfalfa sprouts; the Gulf oil spill may have caused permanent damages to marshlands; BP never meets its promised deadlines; years from now, the Gulf Stream could bring the spill to British shores; more oil is reaching Louisiana beaches; [R] win seat in HI; families are lying about their incomes, so rich children can attend Head Start programs; the end of ‘Lost’;

Computer generated genes; train derailment in China has killed at least 19 people; did something fall off, or from, the Atlantis space shuttle?; Australian man will attempt the longest & fastest parachute dive; another swaying bridge appears, this time in Russia; why doesn’t the US buy poppy from the AFG farmers, a tactic that is currently being used by the Taliban; Norwegian oil well partially evacuated after encountering a change in pressure while drilling; Middle East countries may provide aid in stopping the US oil spill;

…5/24–10: clean, and cool

60º in ABQ; 18% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s dentist visit; Bosque fire burns near Corrales, 100 homes have been evacuated: the fire has burned about 5–10 acres, and is 0% contained; there is also an 800 acre blaze burning along the NM/CO border, near Raton; today is the last day for the ABQ public school year; Duke City budget may be voted on tonight; Brad prepared Steak au Poivre; there are at least five fires burning across NM; N NM freeze warnings tonight; Brad completed his major picture;

UNM Duck Pond drained, killing many of the fish that swam in it; two patients have the same name;

T’storms from the Dakotas to TX; wet in JAX, Charlotte, Fargo, SLC, Dodge City, Billings, Twin Cities, Orlando & Charleston, SC; snow in Yellowstone; July heat in the Great Plains; a subtropical storm brewing in the Atlantic; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

101 uses by her husband for an ex-wife’s wedding dress; a lawnmower that can reach speeds of 80+ mph; BP blunders, taking too long to clean the water, and stop the oil: sand barriers are now being built to soak up the sludge; stop the production of drop side cribs; should a mosque be built on ‘hallowed ground’, near the site of the 9–11 attacks; rural children are just as likely to die from gunshot wounds as youngsters who live in cities; the DOW ended down; 2.6 quake shook AR last week; poor quality cement used to stop oil flow from broken pipe; now, a potential candidate for the SC GOV position denies having an affair; gang member killed three people at a NJ school playground; gay rights activists ‘came’ to MS this past weekend; no one knows how much oil has leaked, but fewer fish can be seen in the spill area; home sales are going up, interest rates are going down, and many people are refinancing; MN mother gave birth while driving to the HOSP;

Jamaican capital under a state of emergency; space shuttle Atlantis is heading home; Duchess of York tried to ‘sell’ her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, to generate more income for herself; 5.9 quake shook parts of Peru; tensions rising between N & S Korean; oil is $70.16 per barrel; gold is $1,193.80 an ounce;

…5/20–10: environment of hope

2010-05-23T06:57:00.001-07:00

54º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; it’s moth season again; ABQ family is related to a star on a current TV show; 9% humidity at 5P; how ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ became ‘Cowboys & Angels’; teens accused of vandalizing an empty Duke City home;

work on I/P charges; missed the PM Blue R/R, so walked across the campus, and took the Red Line home;

ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in Tampa, Little Rock, Omaha, Billings, Seattle, Memphis, St. Louis; Dallas, Tulsa, Chicago & Miami; ‘beautiful’ in Santa Fe; several twisters struck OK & KS yesterday; fog in OH, KY & VA; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

AZ immigration law is ‘misdirected’, says Obama; heavy oil has been found in Louisiana waters; UT boy rapped his order at a McDonald’s, was taken to court, but any charges that he was a threat were dismissed; inflation at its lowest level in 44 years; tight security at White House dinner last night; next step: pour mud & concrete into the broken oil pipe; sex offenders are posing as Census workers; Los Angeles school bus ignited while driving down a freeway; MN nurses on strike, the largest walkout of its kind; GE coffeemakers could pose a fire threat; initial jobless claims on the rise; the DOW fell over 376 points; mystery balloon landed near Independence Hall in Philly; KC man accused of providing money to al Qaeda; rape kits, which a woman has to buy, and takes hours to complete, are sitting on police DEPT shelves: they could free or jail someone, but many have gone past the statute of limitations period; high heels for infants?; alligator was seen roaming an ATL neighborhood; chemicals may be causing the oil spill to expand; the Director of NATL INTEL has been told to resign;

man set his head on fire; did N Korea sink a S Korean warship earlier this year; unions are going on a ‘general strike’ in Greece; a Picasso & a Matisse were stolen from a Paris museum; synthetic cell created by a computer;

…5/21–10: education…you might learn something

58º in ABQ; 28% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM has a lower than NATL AVG credit card debt; water main break at UNIV & Menaul; Chevron gas stations will be closing in ABQ; hundreds of feral rats found in Las Cruces home; fire extinguishers were recharged;

empty AM R/R; left at noon, ate great salads at Saggio’s; Brent & I paid a surprise [for me] visit to Dr. Crowley; home around 3:30P;

wet in Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, INDY, Charlotte, Memphis, Denver, Cleveland, Cheyenne, New Orleans, SLC, Madison [WI] & Miami; temps from the 50s to the 100s;

SEN passes a Wall ST financial reform bill; US losing confidence in BP, oil is choking the cycle of life; rat walks by the outside White House podium; yesterday was the biggest one day drop on the stock market since Feb, 2000; one in eight public swimming pools across the US have contain unclean water; two police officers killed in W Memphis, AR; wildfires burn in CA; one man faked his way into Harvard, while another did the same thing, but in the military; the DOW ended up; salmonella now found in alfalfa; Pac-Man is thirty years old; hundreds of pot plants found in SC garden; containers of chemicals waiting to be delivered to clean the Gulf of MX are sitting in TX?;

$123 million art heist, and the security cameras were not working at the time of the robbery; third spacewalk today: the final Atlantis flight, and the beginning of the ‘new’ NASA; Asian stocks are already falling; Lance Armstrong is again accused of using performance enhancing drugs; the most dangerous weapon…is words;

…5/22–10: family, first

59º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…after 19 hours, the water main break was fixed; most of NM in Extreme Fire Danger; PNM wants to raise rates again; Angel Fire is opening a newly completed section of its resort, just in time for the summer golf season; NM sex offender has fled to MX; budget cuts force the closing of a NM Film Museum; Special Olympics will be held in ABQ today; Isleta Casino is renamed the Hard Rock Casino; the White Lantern is located in Silver City, NM; 8% humidity at 5P; Pajarito Mesa will no longer have to travel for drinking water; a cannonball from the 1800s in a SE ABQ home;

The Kilauea volcano has erupted for 10K days; twenty states will hold events to celebrate Harvey Milk Day; 100 year old time capsule, placed in the cornerstone of an IA City Hall BLDG, was opened yesterday; JetBlue pilot surrendered his gun at Logan Airport, after claiming he was going to commit suicide; one person was killed when a pipe bomb exploded outside a WV nightclub;

In India, a plane flew missed the runway, skidded & crashed, killing 158 people, some survivors have been reported; thirteen year old American boy is the youngest person to reach the peak of Mt. Everest;

…5/17–10: somewhere, across America

2010-05-19T17:12:00.001-07:00

60º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Chiro visit; new waste water requirements for rural homes in Bernalillo CNTY; ABQ charter school still closed after weekend fire; the ranching & dairy industries are major factors in the NM economy; Palin has a ‘thin record of accomplishments’; it is about 2K miles from ABQ to ATL; the ‘closest person to a witness’; fire at PNM power plant; NM economy is on the voters’ minds, especially the state’s deficit; severe PM weather in SE NM;

Myrna returns from her vacation; PEDS should send their charges to Angela Martinez;

wet along parts of I-10, I-70, I-75 & I-95; wet in Seattle, Reno, JAX, Tallahassee, DC, Chicago, Amarillo, Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, Pittsburgh, Louisville & Baltimore; snow in the Sierras; rain in Charlotte, ATL, Richmond & the Tidewater area; fog for AR, OK, MO & TN; temps from the 60s to the 90s;

are pesticides linked to some ADHD cases; mile long tube has been inserted into the broken oil pipe; were there failures by FED agencies in not finding potential problems on the oil rig?; Long Island dog takes Viagra for a heart condition; an upward trend of children being diagnosed with MRSA; after many years, a man discovered that one piece from a 5K piece jigsaw puzzle is missing; the DOW ended slightly up; is a life sentence, without any chance of parole, too long for a teenager who has murdered someone too harsh?; the new Miss USA is Arab-American; this past weekend, a plane crashed into a FL home; no more ‘Heroes’; BP will help promote Gulf tourism; one million people per day are using tanning beds; ‘so far’, no sign of seafood contamination; welcome to the anti-incumbent era;

first spacewalk took place today, during which a power outage occurred, but the problem was solved within minutes, and it did not pose a threat to the astronauts; more airport closures from Icelandic volcano; a plane that turns opens into a living room, complete with balcony, went it is on the ground; the value of a Euro is falling; Brazil & Turkey have brokered a deal in handling Iran’s uranium; plane crash in AFG; oil is $70.09 per barrel; gold is $1,227.70 an ounce;

…5/18–10: listen, and feel happy

63º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s doctor visit; ABQ teacher’s swear words recorded on a student’s cell phone; judge allows homeowner to smoke in her backyard; trees vandalized in Duke City neighborhood; NM Tech provides seismic readers for around the world; crime went up in Santa Fe APT complex when age restrictions were lifted; got our yearly for the APT; someone is very happy to be my one hundredth YouTube subscriber!; Brad made Gazpacho; Farmington teen would like his artistic design to be the wallpaper for the GOOGLE website;

work on more ID & Cardiology services; we are again in Code Purple;

ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet along parts of I-10, I-40, I-70 & I-95; snow in the Cascades & the N Rockies; wet in Houston, San Antonio, Boston, NYC, Philly, Cleveland, OKC, Dallas, Denver, Providence, SLC, Miami, Memphis & Baltimore; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

thirty years ago, Mt. St. Helens erupted in WA: disrupted flights and shut down interstates for two weeks; this has been the hottest April ever recorded; only 17% of homeowners have benefited from the mortgage stimulus plan; the ‘loop current’ could move the oil spill into the Atlantic; a commission will be formed to monitor the oil slick; have tar balls been found near the FL Keys?; two toddlers ‘stole’ candy from a convenience store, by eating it; the DOW dropped; oil has reached the MS delta region, and the astronauts can observe the spill from space; processed meat has more salt & preservatives, making it ‘worse’ [for now] than hamburgers or steak, and potentially cause diabetes; one dress, worn 365 days [so far] by a NYC woman, looking different by adding color & jewelry; ten year old boy caught surfing for porn on the Internet at a public library;

Icelandic volcano could pose a problem to airlines for the rest of the week; pizza parlors in Italy are using coffin wood to bake their meals; an inflated castle sailed across a lake; second spacewalk to be held today;

…5/19–10: give yourself a compliment…you deserve it

51º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…woman drove a scooter to an ABQ casino after her van broke down; another dead body found on a Duke City street; dog hair from local salons is being collected to help stop the oil leak; Brad has finished his big painting; NM, the ‘solar panel sunshine state’; ‘Ride of Silence’ tonight for bicyclists who have been killed by vehicles; 25% of NM farmers are women;

March charges from Dr. Wong; no PSUP Admits;

wet in OKC, Wichita, Tulsa, Memphis, St. Louis, Miami, Boston, Pittsburgh; KC, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Little Rock, Norfolk, Rapid Cody & Casper plus E New England; rain along sections of I-35, I-40 & I-81; several TX twisters yesterday, one was classified as a ‘super cell’: another day of tornadoes in OK, TX & Louisiana; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

yesterday was the day incumbents lost, and the Tea Party won; ‘out’ is ‘in’, as new blood may be heading to Capitol Hill; are people getting sick from the oil spill?; sinkhole open on I-24 in TN; 5.1 quake near the CA/MX border, shook San Diego; TX baby found sitting in the middle of a street; older people who live in group homes are more likely to commit suicide than senior citizens who remain in their own houses; a Manhattan cocktail lounge serves a $160 drink; the DOW went down; the ATM inventor has died; oil spill getting caught in the watery ‘loop’; Frank Lloyd Wright was on “What’s My Line”; FL woman ran over herself while reaching for a cup of coffee on top of her car; GOOGLE accused of ‘accidentally’ spying; it has been one month after the oil rig explosion; Wal-Mart children’s jewelry now has too much lead; are electrical cars too quiet, cannot be heard by blind people;how a TX man became a MX drug cartel czar; more attacks at a US military base near Kabul; the ‘truth embargo’ about UFOs; MX PRES vocally expressed his disapproval regarding the AZ immigration law; second spacewalk took place; oil is $69.87 per barrel; gold is $1,192.60 an ounce;

…5/15–10: technological thoughts

2010-05-16T17:02:00.000-07:00

50º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…hot air balloons over ABQ skies; Duke City woman was pulled over by a vehicle carrying six hooded men, who asked to see her driver’s license, then took a picture of it: this took place at Coors & Central; red light cameras will be removed from state roads, and three local intersections this week; Bill Clinton will be in ABQ this Tuesday for a political fundraiser; NM GOV will be attending a White House dinner; Duke City judge is stepping down for having made several legal errors in sentencing people; there were no records kept of the Native Americans who may have been exposed to Hepatitis or HIV when the same lancet was used to test for diabetes; will ABQ halt business with AZ?; flight diverted to SunPort, passenger was treated by Michael Jackson’s doctor;

dog pulled a bumper off a police car; BP lowering another tube to siphon oil, that attempted also did not work, never reached the broken pipe: very little has been done to how to stop an oil leak; 44K military helmets may be defective; maximum fee at an ATM should be fifty cents?; Episcopalians select a second gay person, a lesbian reverend, as bishop;

Australian teen is now the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world; space junk will not prevent Atlantis from docking at the INTL Space Station; more volcanic ash heading towards England & Germany; Stephen Hawking says time travel is possible, via a ‘wormhole’, but only one way…into the future; Cathay Pacific airplane diverted to a Vancouver airport after a bomb threat was reported;

…5/16–10: seek peace

50º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…fatal pedestrian crash in NW ABQ; two hikers rescued from the Sandia MTN, they got stuck in the snow, and were saved by their cell phones; NM vs. Blue Cross: who will win; wind turbines near Tucumcari; NM has some of the largest cheese factories in the US; water will be released from the Cochiti Dam, so there will be more water flowing in the Rio Grande;

PA postal worker gets busted for hoarding mail, dating back to 1997; the $100K prostate cancer vaccine; when not a FED bailout for education?; now, huge plumes of oil beneath the Gulf of MX; cash being pulled from the stock market, blame the recent recession; Palin approved the AZ immigration law; seven year old girl killed when a Detroit police officer; AZ: ‘Ground Zero’ for immigration?; ‘Iron Man 2’ was number one in the box office, earning $53 million; while ‘some’ of the oil is being siphoned, more tar balls appearing on more Gulf shores: some of the plumes are ten miles long, yet there may be bacteria which will eat the fuel; ‘Gulf Aid’ fundraiser being held in New Orleans; the Tea Party has also removed an [R] conservative candidate;

Atlantis docked with the INTL Space Station today; volcanic ash closing N European airports; in Tokyo, robot performed the wedding ceremony; 5.7 quake shook Puerto Rico, the epicenter was near the city of Moca;