…3/7-10: wizard of the wins

44º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…an overnight power outage at ABQ Uptown; the BLM wants to acquire 7,500 acres of private ranch land; both the UNM Men’s & Women’s basketball teams are going to the Mountain West Tournaments; small plane made an emergency landing on I-25, S of ABQ; another deadly crash caused by a drunk driver, who tried to flee the scene of the accident; the start of ‘business exchanges’ between NM & mainland China?; brush fire in the Bosque, near Tingley Drive; people do not want a pipeline between Fort Sumner & Santa Fe; thirty years ago…two people, in their own ways, were planning for the upcoming Entre Nous run; the NM GOV has twenty days to approve the state’s budget; my Windows Media software has been updated so I could watch three minutes of ‘2012’ on my PC; NM actor had a role in ‘Avatar’; Johnny Tapia won by a knockout;eight teenage boys were shot while leaving an IN concert; there are many towns across America that contain only one person, and those people like that distinction; a fourth grader becomes a hero after fatal AZ bus crash; Obama says ‘Trust me.’, and America replies…; the Capitol Hill Ethics Committee is busy this year; gunman killed after shooting a police officer outside a TX Wal-Mart; the ABC/Cablevision War; ‘Alice’ made over $116 million this weekend;malaria increasing in Haiti; four gunman robber an INTL Poker Tournament in Berlin, Germany; al Qaeda tells US Muslims to attack America; is Iran building more protective missiles?; is there another rift in disarmament between N Korea, S Korea & the US; religious violence in Nigeria; Iraqi elections may delay US troop withdrawal; an American born al Qaeda member has been arrested in PAK, or has he?; Iran still saying ‘9–11’ never happened; are there diplomatic problems between the US and Turkey, and China?; small fire at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport;

…3/6-10: honor & privilege

33º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…a ‘pamper us’ weekend; Chewy is getting much bigger; the NM College of Mining reports a record enrollment for the 2010 fall semester; I was so tired last night I forgot to turn off my PC; – 2º in Angel Fire this AM; tax hikes will affect everyone in NM; a one woman crime spree took place in several rooms at a local hotel; five vehicle crash on Cerillos RD in Santa Fe left one person dead, and seven injured; Brad bought chocolates to ‘ease our pain’ this weekend; Johnny Tapia will return to the ring tonight; the Fiery Foods & BBQ event is at the Sandia Pueblo Casino this weekend; a new Rail Runner station will soon open near the Santa Domingo Pueblo; after scanning his cell phone, a Las Cruces woman stabbed her ex-husband; Brad prepared a delicious Boeuf à la Catalana; murder in a SW ABQ gated community; car blocks garbage truck from reaching our dumpster;GM will reopen 600 of its dealerships; Pentagon shooter suffered from a mental illness; Academy Award winners will be based on the number of total votes, and not in the ranking: so if a second place movie had the most votes, it will win as the best picture; fog caused multiple multi-vehicle pileups along parts of HGY 41 in WI; bear bit off the finger of a drunk woman who ignored the warning signs at a WI zoo; ‘Smallville’ will return for a tenth season; the $9,500 Gummi-bear chandelier; man falls into the path of a train in Phoenix; Beyoncé visited the White House; why were ‘2012’ and ‘Watchmen’ not nominated for any Academy Award category?; banks close in FL, IL, UT & MD…bringing the total number that have failed in 2010 to 26; new jobs are still not being generated; 40% of those unemployed in America have been searching for work at least six months during this ‘Great Recession’, people are turning to Plan B, as in ‘be creative’; the number of ‘lone wolf terrorist’ and extremist groups in the US is increasing, this includes the Tea Party; fire killed three children in AL mobile home;Chilean earthquake aftermath is a prime area for infections, people need to be immunized against tetanus & hepatitis…chemical toilets are needed; another pirate attack near Madagascar; there are 52K Iraqi polling places; the number of deaths from the Chilean quake has dropped to 500, but the number of aftershocks keep occurring: there is a NATL Telethon being held to raise money; ferries freed from the icy Baltic; fifty ‘bomb techs’ have been killed in the Iraq & AFG wars;

…3/5-10: dancing to the beat

40º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM special session adjourns; there will be an increase of 75¢ in the cigarette tax for the next four years; expect more & higher taxes in the Duke City; tasers with cameras are being bought at a cost of $400 apiece; should ABQ build an ‘events CTR’ & another hotel?; NM residents with Blue Cross coverage face 24% premium increases; ‘Two Fools’ is recommended by the IQ magazine of ABQ; the Duke City Police Academy will close because of monetary reasons;

no comic climb today; more crimes occurring at businesses near UNM; SUBWAY store will no longer accept cash payments after 8P;

homes collapse from Peruvian mudslides; cool in Daytona Beach, and most parts of FL; there is plenty of ice on Lake Erie; light snow for Boston, Providence, Rapid City, Billings & Denver; temps from the 30s to the 70s;

snowmobiles who strayed off the designated path may have to pay the $10K rescue fees; a blue diamond will be auctioned today, the asking price is $5+ million; six people were killed when a tour bus rolled over along I-10 in AZ; health care reform has a March 18 deadline; the ‘Pentagon shooter’, who had a grudge against the military, a history of mental illness, and was from Hollister, CA: he never got into the BLDG; the DOW ended up; get ready for higher overdraft fees; ID homeless man wins $250K from a lottery; more teens have switched from soda to beer; US weather satellite being launched; will Julia Child’s kitchen win an Academy Award?; the American deficit is higher than previously predicted; will real ‘tea parties’ come back in style: a change in venue: military trials for 9–11 conspirators?; tainted water from a TN coal ash spill is drifting in to several states; a sixteen year old MD girl is paralyzed after receiving an HiN1 vaccine; IPad release date has been delayed;

fifty ships are stranded in ice in the Baltic Sea; 6.6 aftershock shook Chile this AM; 6.5 quake in the water off Sumatra in Indonesia: its epicenter was nearly 14 miles below the surface; oil is $81.45 per barrel; gold is $1,135.30 an ounce; two workers caught fighting during an Italian broadcast; the rogue waves struck the ocean liner when it was off the NE coast of Spain;

…3/4-10: somewhere in America

34º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; easier transition for student teachers from CNM to UNM; the Lobos won an important game last night, they are the Mountain West Conference Champions; fraud charges against Thornburg Mortgage executives, who stole $80 million; car carrying four teens slammed into a fence last night, injuring two of the victims; violent Santa Fe shooting & robbery; corpse found in S Valley ditch; was our MGR out yesterday, or today?; no tie today, to help ease the coughing; no PICU Admits; Channel 13 on UNM campus; we remain in Code Purple; Dr. Waldman still writes his notes;

flurries for NYC, Boston, Portland, ME & Cape Cod, also in Rapid City; windy in P’town; freeze warnings for parts of N FL; rain in Reno, SLC & Boise; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; snow in the Sierras; temps from 30s to 70s;

no social security bonus checks for retires; because of a bad harvest, tomatoes will not be added to fast-food hamburgers; a snow ‘Venus de Milo’ is considered obscene, so its creators dress her; Capt. Sully retired, the man behind the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’; five people survived after a helicopter crashed in the UT MTN; more sexual harassment claims being filed by men; Safeway Potato Salad may contain salmonella; bacteria found in hand sanitizers that are manufactured in Puerto Rico; the price of lobster is ‘too low’?; more runaway Toyotas reported, even after the repairs were completed; the DOW ended up; two PA teens were killed by a high-speed train, in a double suicide pact; more American women are dying within 42 days after giving birth, this type of data not seen since the 1970s, more females are obese and have pre-existing conditions, such as diabetes; AL GOV wants to shut down electronic bingo parlors; three people, two of whom were police officer, were shot at the Pentagon METRO stop, shutting down the subway system;

two passengers were thrown overboard when a series of rogue waves struck an ocean liner while in the Mediterranean; the water reached 26 feet high; another aftershock in Chile, but no tsunami waves; fire at a Taiwan factory following yesterday’s quake, more aftershocks are being felt today; oil is $80.20 per barrel; gold is $1,132.60 an ounce; two ferries stuck in the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea; Iraq has 19 million registered voters, and 6.200 candidates in the upcoming election; Swedish man arrested for having a fake pilot’s license, and was flying planes; coins found in Syria from the era of Alexander the Great; the US has placed a $5 million bounty on a MX drug lord;

…3/3-10: electronic snowballs

36º in ABQ; 62% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Bernalillo CNTY needs more moisture; an increase in the cigarette tax?; man tried to drown his child, then burned the youngster with a cigarette; Harry Teague is fighting against congressional pay hikes; fraud & ID theft charges against Santa Fe Deputy; went very early to bed; smoke bomb from a police training event drifted over daycare CTR; Garduno’s workers will get paid; the Duke City’s drug policy with regards to hiring new workers remains in limbo; refinery fire near Artesia, after a storage tank exploded;

Hell Week, Day 2.5; Jose Vargas, who was injured while riding a horse, said ‘goodbye’ to me, he is leaving UNMH , and continuing care in OK; we remain in Code Purple; stuffy air in office;

snow for Providence, Raleigh, parts of MA & NY; rain for SLC, San Fran & Seattle; flurries in the Tidewater area, Boston, Nantucket, DC, Harrisburg, Philly & NYC; snow fell on ATL & Asheville; parts of I-81 & I-95 could have rain & snow; we are in the fourth strongest EL Nino since 1950, which could mean a cooler, wetter March for the SW US; snow shut down I-80 near Truckee, CA; temps from the 20s to the 70s;

the debate is done, now it is time to vote on health care reform; doctors wore “TV friendly HOSP clothes”; boy becomes an air traffic controller at JFK Airport in NYC, and actually talked to pilots, who were amused by the incident: it happened twice, and both the controller & his supervisor have been suspended; a decline in the number of children being bullied?; for the month of March, Topeka, KS will be renamed ‘Google’; jobless benefits extension bill may be passed soon; this may be Obama’s last chance to pass a health care reform bill, but the House lacks the votes; more elderly Americans live below the poverty line than current statistics indicate; the overpriced charges on I/P hospital items, that can be removed from a bill if you call & complain; a ‘man sled’ race in AK; US teachers polled say that student achievement is more important than their salaries; FL woman posed as state official, demanded child, and was later charged with abduction; the DOW ended down; naked woman tied to a tree in WA state;as elections come closer, more suicide bombings in Iraq; fifty foot waves were pushed over a mile into the coastland of Chile; oil is $80.87 per barrel; gold is $1,139 an ounce; three Spaniards arrested for attempting to hack into 13 million computers, and steal personal data; 6.5 quake shook Taiwan, but no injuries or damages were reported; all of Toyota’s repairs are not completely fixed; 156 empty caves for al Qaeda members were found in AFG, some still contained weapons;

…3/2-10: I will be near

32º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…GAQ; should ABQ city employees be tested for using drugs?; pay a parking meter by using a cell phone?; many NM cities are holding elections today; imposter pulled over a real ABQ policeman; should Duke City police officers be allowed to take their cars home if the live outside the city limits?; the Lobos’ men’s basketball team rank eighth; cell phones may be allowed in ABQ schools…but not in classes;

Hell Week, Day Two; and more PDI requests; Chris’ brother works at UNMH; a lot of nurses have called in sick today; man with a gun was sighted on the UNM campus yesterday PM; we remain in Code Purple; tougher admission standards for UNM?;

snow in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Asheville; rain in Fresno, Portland, OR, Orlando & Tampa; snow for GA, TN & the Carolinas; NATL Guard help cleaning WV snow; rain & snow in ATL; roof collapsed from snow in OH; central FL twisters, all the way to JAX & Key West; floods near Sao Paulo, Brazil; a variety of bad weather along parts of I-75 & I-95; temps from the 20s to 80s;

GM recalls Chevy & Pontiac models, could have power steering problems; tremors could happen in Seattle & Los Angeles; outhouse races in MI; Miami prisoners do their own ‘American Idol’ show; NYC cabbie overcharged 574 customers; the ‘Senate Only’ elevator?; Jerry Brown wants to run for the GOV of CA position; the DOW slightly ended up; Boston wedding website is a scam; alcohol–marijuana use by teens is increasing; USPS is ‘hemorrhaging’ money; this is ‘Read Across America’ Day with the Cat in the Hat; MA newlyweds spend their first night as a couple, in jail; Ford is Number One in auto sales; starting next week, DC will allow same–sex ceremonies;

Chilean quake shortened the day by one microsecond; severe tremors could occur in Indonesia, Iran & Japan; the S American country now needs water purifiers, and it ‘knew’ a quake would occur; oil is $79.59 per barrel; gold is $1,127 an ounce; man in Britain was fined for walking his dog, while driving his car; if necessary, Iran will use ‘smart’ bombs; gangs forming in Chilean neighborhoods; there have been 131 aftershocks, some reaching 6.9 in magnitude; an Italian parliament filled with politicians that are former showgirls?; the tremor has increased the price of copper; China’s bonds with the US could have political & monetary repercussion; some trains in India are for ‘women only’;

…3/1-10: you will be well

36º in ABQ; 89% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Hobbs man facing child porn charges; Garduno’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and closing three of its restaurants, 100 people will lose their jobs, but the restructuring should be completed by 2011; cabin fire in N NM; 2010 Census starting to arrive in NM; man drove into a crowd after he was told to leave a party; neither Brad nor I are feeling well today; Brad beginning the download procedure for his pictures; NM couple was in Chile when the quake struck; the eight year old NM author, grandson to a famous, local singer; early to bed tonight;

Hell Week, Day One; to balance the NM state budget, funding cuts for UNM grad work; currently in Code Purple; plenty of patients & PDI requests;

snow for Boston, Cleveland, Santa Fe, Denver, KC & Omaha; flurries for Pittsburgh; CA coastal flooding; flurries in Erie & Albany; S Rockies snow; cold & windy along the New England coast; rain in OKC, Houston, Dallas & New Orleans; temps from the 20s to 70s;

long term use of marijuana could cause hallucinations in later life; shove a health care bill through the House; man creates natural/landscape art from household items; sex offender linked to missing CA student; 200K in New England are still in the dark; an army vehicle collided with a train in UT; people are savings less, spending more again; fire truck & train collide in Detroit; OR car salesman was shot during a test drive that turned into a carjacking; PlayStation network went down; PRES does not smoke in front of his children; this is the shortest Census form, with only ten questions; MT military bases that contain nuclear warheads failed inspection; drug gangs taking over NATL parks in CA: what makes Tim Burton tic?; the DOW ended up; are doctors ending children’s lives earlier than necessary, but per the parents’ request?; MI man says a divine calling told him to destroy his motel room?; suspicious substance found in UT IRS BLDG is not poisonous; expect more traffic gridlocks as the economy improves;

floods from heavy rain in quake ravaged Haiti; Canada won the men’s hockey game in O/T; US won the most medals, but not the most gold; oil is $78.16 per barrel; gold is @1,119.60 per ounce; the people who built the destroyed structure may face criminal charges; please give to help these people; quake shook the world on its axis; field hospitals, generators, and portable bridges are needed; at least 500K homes destroyed in Chile, and two millions are homeless; tsunamis struck the Chilean coast, that country is now asking for INTL aid; aftershocks are still being felt; looters are raiding supermarkets, with soldiers & curfews the answer; Chile has suffered a catastrophe of unthinkable magnitude; repairs are already starting; it is the most developed country in Latin America; Russia may impose sanctions against Iran; models being transformed into paper dolls; condoms in Olympic colors;