…10/18-08: internal pride

47º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…today is a ‘Balloon Fiesta Day’; tickets required to hear Palin in Roswell, where she will speak tomorrow; woman became drunk while waiting to vote, cast ballot, it is legal to be inebriated when voting; domestic dispute caused car crash at Richmond & Lead, vehicle got stuck on a rock; Myrna says ‘more clothing, less heat’; public not invited to ‘X Prize’, being held at Las Cruces Airport; Montezuma CNTY shrinks font on voting, use magnifiers for people who cannot read the page; Elephant Butte is ten years old; Anasazi construction company facing financial problems, cannot get a loan; Permian basin in NM & TX, algae helping to clean the air in that area; students steal, drive & strip vehicles they took; truancy laws overwhelming courts; inventory sales at Linens & Things; hostile work environment at E MTN call service, dating back to 2005; fire damaged Duke City classroom, $85K in damages; Brad made Mulled Cranberry Apple Cider; INTEL, Sprint & Wells Fargo stocks lost value; why are budget cuts being proposed just before the holidays; ABQ man has had to spent thousands after thieves broke into his hybrid vehicle, stole wife’s purse, used checks & credit cards to buy purchases, such as computer…key to his safe was in her purse; these burglars also have their address & other personal info; protect plants, pets & pipes; Jet Stream will ‘carve into NM’; Launchpad has voter registration this weekend; people cannot drink at a voting site, but before casting your ballot; man stole $1K of digital cameras from Santa Fe SEARS, stuffing items down his pants leg, 'to help feed his child’; Renaissance Fair in Farmington; Clovis sexual predator arrested for meeting TX teen for sex; Rio Rancho high school students trying to convince algae is the next biofuel; NM political campaigns will get ‘ugly’ during next two weeks; less travel, equipment & energy costs: mandates will remain in effect until [at least] the first quarter of 2009 [at least]; what will UNMMG have to say about this situation?; now is not the time, to take time off; low COMCAST bill; very busy at comic book store yesterday; thousands listened to Biden; first day of early voting; we received a letter from COMCAST, explaining & apologizing for an error on their part, forgot a necessary charge, will appear in the November bill; Lobos won, 70 – 7;

Biden does not want a downward spiral of job loss in NM, or the US, he will be on ‘Ellen’ this Monday; grandfather linked to , arrested in NV child’s disappearance; Palin likes being the ‘underdog’; times are changing for Nation of Islam in the US; Los Angeles transit system suffer, had loans from AIG; HI welcome S Korean tourists; the Aloha state has ended universal health care for its children; ‘family conditions vs. market condition’; you can sue your broker, blame wrong-doings, suggesting risky stocks to diversify portfolio; Game Six between Tampa & Boston tonight; NJ children have to get vaccinated for the flu, or they will be kicked out of classrooms; Detroit police officer’s son guilty of killing one student, injuring three others; Americans demand less oil; AVG American credit card debt is $8,300; stocks saw record gains & significant losses; being the underdog is motivating; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.99 per gallon; drilling for oil, an up & down business; the ‘gold drug’; movement among masses; Key West, the Cat Kingdom?;

Mary Kay cosmetics spreading into Asia, complete with pink Cadillac, a boom in the era of beauty consultants; this is currently the worst financial crisis they have faced; China will help PAK build nuclear reactors?; self inflicted suicide of paralyzed sports player questioned across UK & Europe: he traveled to a Swiss clinic with the sole purpose of ending his life, is this an illegal act?; the end of the road for ‘good times’ in Russia;