…4/25-10: spark imagination

43º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…what do these people find fascinating in my YouTube website that they want to be my ‘friend’ and ‘subscribe’ at the same time!…I am totally puzzled!; 41 year old man accused of sexually molesting an eight year old girl that was in his care; woman found, after being lost for days in the Bandelier NATL Monument; 150K attended the Gathering of Nations; Dakota Brant is the new Miss Indian World; sludge & arsenic still remain in the water of Bernalillo; a $32 million grant for NM to house residents who have HIV/AIDS;

sweet crude oil is leaking from the sunken rig, the slick may continue growing for several months; death & destruction in the SE US: the tornado threat has moved into the Carolinas, GA & FL; ‘Archie’ comics introduced a gay male character; the 2,406th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was awarded to Mel Brooks; the fourteen year old female NASCAR driver;

the Hubble Telescope has been in space for twenty years; this is World Malaria Day; woman in France is fined for wearing a veil while driving; they are already planning Trance Energy 2011; did a N Korean torpedo sink a S Korean warship?;

…4/26-10: turn the hands of time

52º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Blue Cross of NM is asking for a 25% premium hike; SE CO snow; new rehearsal hall for the Santa Fe Opera; AM panic attack; UNM campus at Los Alamos is facing a housing shortage; Egyptian scientists in NM for radioactive detection training;

UNM student will play for the Washington Redskins; Jenny took the test for Coding Compliance Certificate this weekend; all alone today; possible PC problems persist; 2011 health premium are slightly going up;

Richmond & Roanoke could see rain; tornados also touched ground in parts of SC; wet in Boston, Providence, Philly, NYC, DC, Detroit, Omaha, INDY & Orlando; there is a tornado watch for S FL; wet along parts of I-70, I81 & I-95; an EF-4 twister struck MS this past weekend, cut a path two miles wide; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

smoking addiction is in your genes?; a ‘dog disco’ for the financial district of NYC, while Wall ST reform is stalled by [R];?; another canine saves a three year old girl’s life; Wal-Mart faces huge class action lawsuit: one million women asking for billions of dollars in damages: the company will take this case to the US Supreme Court; celebrities save ‘HOLLYWOOD’ sign; 42K gallons of oil per day is now spilling into the Gulf of MX; tents line NYC streets for job interviews; good Samaritan attacked in NYC, and nobody stopped to help him; in just one day, the Gulf of MX oil spill has tripled in size; the DOW ended slightly up;
6.5 quake off the SE coast of Taiwan, its epicenter was at a depth of 6.2 miles, and no damages or injuries reported; Hertz bought Thrifty Auto Rental; oil is $84.20 per barrel; gold is $1,153.50 an ounce; two British men built a remote control camera to take pictures of animals in the African jungle; dust storm in NW China;

…4/24-10: coins vs. change…

43º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…last night, a windy evening; two men found dead in a NE ABQ home, a woman who survived is in critical condition; NM residents pay more taxes than corporations in this state; NM man caught for not paying taxes in 2007 & 2008; NW Duke City home raided, suspected as a haven for gang members; Kim is expecting a boy, she will remain a tenant at The Beach, but move to a lower level APT; YDDC guard attacked by inmate; the Roadrunner bicycle tournament is being held in N NM; a solar power plant for Rio Rancho?; a magazine survey says Santa Fe is one of America’s prettiest towns; car near a booth at an inside an indoor flea market on Central caught on fire; Brad prepared a Casserole Roasted Chicken; tanker explosion on the Laguna Pueblo; the All Nations Skate Jam was held in SW ABQ;

AZ law makes you ‘prove’ you are a US citizen: NM GOV opposes the law, saying it could lead to racial profiling, many will challenge its legality; a deadly fungus found in OR; FDIC shuts down seven IL banks, bringing the total of failed financial institutions in 2010 to 57; two planes came within 200 feet of each other while taxiing on the tarmac at a CA airport; April is NATL Grilled Cheese Month; dust storm shuts down twenty miles of I-40 in N AZ; the prices for homes is still dropping, jobless claims are up, and personal financial growth is ‘stagnant; tornado threat in the Midwest & SE US; Goldman Sachs E-mails indicate they knew what business would fails, and how to make money through derivatives; AZ economy may suffer from passage of the new immigration law;

6.0 quake rattles Indonesia; Disneyland Paris will not allow an adult that does not work for them, to enter the theme park, dressed as a princess; YouTube is five years old; NASA displays new photos taken by the Hubble telescope; seeing more Toyota ads;

…4/22-10: is there a dollar in the house?

47º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain & storms at The Beach; save money by buying an energy efficient appliance; a HOSP for Valencia CNTY?; N NM snow; two dead bodies found in Abiquiu home; we completed the move today; NM lost jobs in mining, construction & manufacturing to reduce the state’s budget problems, some NM rest areas might close; PM rain at The Beach; Navajo Code talker has died; Rio Rancho student convicted of arson, attempting to set a fire on school property;

one co-worker is teaching in St. Louis, another becoming a grandmother again; give me time to plan, and I will;

slow moving storm brings rain to Denver, OKC, Rapid City, SLC & KC; severe weather in parts of CO, TX, OK & KS; snow along the I-5 ‘grapevine’; mid-Atlantic coastal fog; snow in the Rockies; wet along parts of I-35 & I-95; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

Obama vs. the big banks; wanted: ‘buff’ person to apply tanning oil to S Beach guests, paid $20 per hour; baseball player made a leap, flipped over, and tagged home plate; Mohawk haircut uncovered leukemia, saved a boy’s life; eleven men are missing from the oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast, black smoke can be seen from the SE US shores; the cause & when the blaze will be controlled is UNK, but the fire is contained; there was another explosion; the platform, leased to BP, has sunk, and crude oil is leaking from the structure…there is already a five mile oil spill, so now we also have an ecological disaster; people bet on whether a movie will be a box office hit; SEC agents charged with watching porn on company computers, instead of doing their jobs: records reveal this sex viewing started in 2008, by both men & women; March home sales rise; for one airline: no carry-on, lower ticket price; the DOW ended up;

$2 billion in revenue lost by airlines from the volcano; Atlantis is being moved to its launching pad; beautiful display of solar flares, and huge sunspots; most flights across Europe have resumed, some are still not flying to Scandinavia; today is Earth Day’s fortieth B’day; and Queen Elizabeth II turns 84 years old; gold is $1,142.30 an ounce; oil is $83.54 per barrel; more hard times for Greece;

…4/23-10: now & when

40º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; windy AM; this weekend in the Duke City: a Flower & Garden Show, the INTL Auto Show, the Gathering of Nations, Olde Towne ABQ Anniversary, a seminar on breast cancer; ABQ schools will have bigger classes; the Duke City 311 will be changing its hours of operation; vandalism at a Santa Fe school caught on camera; another school food fight leads to one arrest; a secret room discovered in the Doug Vaughn mansion; my ‘silent’ hobby…that the world knows; a Hobbs girl was accidentally struck & killed by her father; an ABQ school received a gold-rating as an energy efficient BLDG;

Sandias shrouded in clouds; left at noon, lunch at Two Fools, then climb for comics; arrived home by 4P; Myrna is a grandmother again, to a healthy baby girl;

bad weather along parts of I-35 & I-40; flurries in the Rockies; snow & twisters for Denver; wet in Omaha, KC, OKC, Topeka, St. Louis, Little Rock, Memphis, Dallas & Des Moines; the strongest tornado outbreak this year, mainly in CO, OK & TX; snow fell near San Diego, CA; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

7–11 launches its own brand of beer; airlines will no longer be allowed to keep passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours; has Tiger Woods returned to his wild ways?; the military launched the unmanned ‘space plane’, or ‘mini-shuttle’, the X–37B; AZ law will allow police to question any Hispanic they suspect might be an illegal immigrant; Ford recalled 33K vehicles; a DELTA flight from Los Angeles to Tampa made an emergency landing in ABQ after a man sprayed water on first class passengers, threatened to open the plane’s door during the flight, and said he had a bomb;

5.9 quake shook Chile; the volcanic ash has shut down Iceland’s airport; it has been 100 days since the quake in Haiti, 1.3 million people are still homeless, over $400K has been donated to the Red Cross;

…4/21-10: maximize what you already have

57º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; did not sleep well last night; pollen count remains very high in ABQ; more NM land will be auctioned for oil drilling; the four year old Duke City boy shot & killed himself with a gun yesterday; I have an old, new desk; group of teenage boys are vandalizing a NE ABQ neighborhood, kicking in fences & gates; AM crash at Bridge & Isleta; fight on school bus leaves student with brain damage; still YouTube troubles at work; SW ABQ meth bust; a increase in drug overdoses in Valencia CNTY; another N NM domestic machete attack; NM GOV one of the worst in the US;

Channel 13 on the UNM campus; no PICU Admits; dirty water yesterday on UNM & UNMH; was Jenny at work yesterday: yes, today?;

CA snow, TX twisters; tornadoes for OK & CO; snow in the Sierra NV & Rockies; wet in Albany, Richmond, DC, Raleigh, Orlando, KC, Tulsa, SLC, Reno, San Fran, Portland [OR], Tampa, Omaha, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Denver & St. Louis; twisters in parts of OK & CO; bad weather along parts of I-75, I-80, I-90 & I-95; rain/snow mix in Flagstaff; temps from the 50s to the 80s;

has free speech been restored, or animal cruelty approved?; missing FL boy found in NYC; oil rig explosion in the Gulf of MX; clothing items seized by NYC police are being sent to Haiti; a computerized, climate controlled car; some people are addicted to tanning beds; David Hasselhoff returns to ‘Young & the Restless’; the new & improved $100 bill; the DOW ended up; sister could not bring her brother to the prom as her date, because he was too old [even though he had served in Iraq];a NATL Day of Prayer?; is there too much sodium/salt in a typical American’s diet?; weapon threat shuts down CO school; GM has paid in full its bailout bucks, and shook its MGMT to make a profit; the armed senior citizen bank robber;

5.9 quake shook Tonga, no damage or injuries reported; Europe, including Britain, is open for business; planes safely flew into the plume, but how has the volcano hampered the global economy?; eight million passengers affected by the global gridlock, it may take weeks to resolve the airline problem; ash cloud drifting towards Europe, but more flights are scheduled;

…4/20-10: the wizards of odds

51º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some Belen city workers may get pink slips; Rio Rancho will add Red Light Cameras; yesterday I got a reverse shower, when the sprinkler system turned on at The Beach while I was walking in the complex; NM NATL Guard returning from Iraq will be honored in Rio Rancho; NM MVD created social security numbers; my NYC friends will add movies to their website; NM is in a ‘nuclear alley’?; Brad made Red Wine Carnivore Chili; two men stabbed at Farmington office party; four year old ABQ was shot & killed; NM inmate escaped from jail;

Rule: never look at anyone’s papers on their desks; could not view YT at work, instead, went to my AOL ‘in box’; one of my E-mails came from NM!; a 2% UNM discount on DELL computers; PICU has adopted my ‘billed to’ technique;

W Coast rains; wet in JAX, ATL, Omaha, Seattle, San Fran, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Orlando & Los Angeles; frost & freeze warnings for MI & NY; a slow spring storm season; dry in the SE US, wet in TX; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-20; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

wind farms for Cape Cod?; APPLE I-Phone prototype left at a CA bar; most adults think teens text too much; OR man will sell advertising space on his funeral urn; most Americans oppose legalizing marijuana; the DOW went up; Obama will honor the 29 people who died in a WV mine accident; most librarians admit to having sex among the bookshelves; the ‘shadow market’; does the US need financial regulatory reforms; man shoots & kills one person, injuring others at a TN HOSP, then he turned the gun on himself; quadruplets will attend the same college; the ‘Big One’ is overdue in CA; Supreme Court says ‘animal cruelty’ acts can be filmed;

5.0 quake in Australia gold mining region; airlines are losing $20 million per day when their planes cannot fly; there is no criteria to determine the ash cloud’s “danger zone” volcano keeps erupting, and many economies are being affected; no concrete data to determine safety area; ‘limited’ flights being attempted; the 30K foot high Jet Stream keeps pushing the plume; another cloud appearing at 10K feet; England’s airspace remains closed, France & Swiss airports reopen, as well as small airfields around the continent; some flights may resume between Asia & S Europe; there us a second volcano near the first, they usually erupt at the same time; 75% of Europe’s airspace is in the clear; the Discovery did land today; there is $600 trillion in derivatives floating in the world; woman suffers from ‘foreign accent syndrome’, caused by a stroke;

…4/18-10: a sweet treat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…4/17-10: respect is a two-way street

47º in ABQ; 76% humidity at 6A…Brad making Pasta Ponza; overnight rain at The Beach; snow in N NM; a DOT work convicted of embezzling $37K in city property, selling items from a Duke City lot where the items were stored; drive by shooting along I-40 near Clines Corner; ABQ cat made the ABC PM News; San Juan CNTY mine received a positive rating; Brad & I each have our own ‘canvases’;

NM cat’s journey to Chicago makes NATL news; bobcat family decides to call an AZ attic its new home; possible meteor fragment found in WI; unemployment has increased in 24 states; fifty banks have been shut down in the US: 3 in FL; 2 in CA, one in MA, MI & WA; a sinkhole collapsed a major street in Richmond, CA; speeding car struck a horse drawn carriage in downtown ATL; Wall ST banks may face criminal charges;

the space shuttle Discovery heads home; because of the volcano in Iceland 23 nations have had to cancel travel in their airspace; as eruptions continue, the ash cloud has reached N Africa & Turkey, and a second Icelandic volcano may explode; florists need planes to provide fresh flowers; funeral for Polish leaders killed in airplane crash will take place; Toyota has recalled 600K more vehicles, spare tire may detach from their SUV models while the vehicle is being driven; Chinese cremating death victims, the death toll has reached 1,100+; Iran called the US an ‘atomic criminal’; 6.3 quake shook Papua New Guinea, no injuries or damages reported;