…10/19-08: do what you love, love what you do

49º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…gang member arrested, became aggressive upon questioning, caught carrying silver knife into school; last night, three suspicious fires near UNM, all empty structures, all planned to be torn down; all once frat homes; warm weekend, changes to a cool, windy week; Ed Tinsley own K-Bob restaurant, a three-state business; Teague bought & built his own oil field service company, with 200 employees; Lujan, UNM grad, headed the Cultural Affairs DEPT; Santa Fe burglar leaves personal items of his own in homes that he invades; no written contract on $1.4 million deal by CA financial firm, helped Rail Runner project, no bid deal, and money donated to NM GOV; Navajo Nation Council meet to discuss 2009 $14 million budget; drive on nothing all the way to winter; extra violation if Farmington drivers are involved in another incident, caused by talking on cell phone; enjoyed Eggs for Breakfast; teen killed from drive by shooting in Farmington; man fell to his death in Touchstone, UT park; inexpensive offices, as low as $350 in Wyoming BLDG, will share kitchen & bathrooms; military planes being moved on Gibson & Eubank to help complete new museum; nothing in the news about state budget cuts; Brad made a variation of Hermits, using dried cranberries; no difference if a police officer has to stop or arrest another cop, should be treated the same as any civilian; locate, copy, paste, edit; tickets are still available for Palin rally; Obama still leads in NM; ‘homeless courts’ help people get places to live, and jobs; ABQ stole several credit cards, and went on a shopping spree, and was finally caught; people are still too naïve, not paying attention to their purses or locking their car doors; woman walked out of St. Francis HOSP in Santa Fe; one person has been treated for smoke inhalation from fires that occurred about 3A on the UNM campus; the on and off watching of ‘Smallville’ ;when 11/1/08 arrives, I will list other events not already mentioned in my blog, due to lack of time; this has been fun, but…; I am fully aware that I will run out of time before AOL shuts down its Homepage site; so, I will do like I did when I started my first website, those many years ago: use our memories, when I remember, what I remember [but “I” means Brad & myself]; “there’s another spot I forgot”, Brad when showing me his new drawing that he is transferring to paper; so far, Sanctuary’ appears to be a success;

precision is power; six year old boy found unharmed, wandering streets in NE area of ‘the’ Las Vegas; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.954 per gallon; AK & OK have the highest & lowest fuel prices; Red Sox beat Tampa Bay 4 – 2, Game Seven is tonight; ACORN vs. [R], charges of fraudulent voters; last week was the ‘best week’ for stock market; Janet Jackson has suffered from migraines & vertigo; ‘treadmill desks’ help idle workers lose weight, gain in productivity, an easy daily dose of exercise; PA state SEN killed in head-on car crash; 2009 Mormon calendar causing a commotion: men only wearing underwear [what were they thinking?]; cities & counties across the US are declaring bankruptcy; housing stars decline, the worst in seventeen year, unemployment is at its highest in five years; people appear to prove the are alive & eligible to vote; Colin Powell endorses Obama; economic problems are far from over; retail sales & consumer confidence still at all-time low; Kings MTN, NC has shut down two plants, city has 9% jobless rate; retail sales keeps dropping; 50% of CA home sales are foreclosed properties; Britney has been famous [?] for ten years; Sarah Palin a big hit on ‘SNL’; economic problems force cities to choose between police, sports, libraries & health coverage: across the US, municipal & state workers could face layoffs or cutbacks; areas with major hospitals, universities & military installations will be less affected; those that relied on the financial sector or real estate will face problems; cities that face money problems include: Oakland, Phoenix, Chicago & NYC; another family may lose their ‘Extreme Makeover’ home; twenty-seven year old OR hiker survived five days in WA forests, he broke an ankle, survived by eating centipedes; has McCain been ‘written off’ by the media?; ‘kick in the butt’ words by McCain: that he voted with Bush 90% of the time; no more TV time for McCain to purchase for ads; time for a new set of eyes, and ideals; Obama raised $150 million during the months of September, with the AVG donation being $80; Powell & McCain have been friends for years; stop focusing on ‘trivial issue’, and not racial ones, either; can McCain be ‘the comeback kid’, he cannot talk in terms of defeat; but what if someone does not want a dark skinned man in the White House, and attacks him, or his family?; seniors are too old to regain retirement losses or funds; ACORN accused of ‘politically motivated distortion’; only 150 charged, and 115 arrested on voter fraud; words to the wise from McCain: “I am not PRES Bush”; Ty Pennington is 43 years old, should change program’s name to ‘Extreme Takeover’?;

Prince Harry & Prince William part of a S African motorcycle parade; Madonna will keep most of her million dollar fortune, the singer & her husband have reached financial divorce deal; Taliban kill thirty people in AFG bus explosion; pirates get ransom, ship is released; more attacks on Christians, living in Iraq; an increase in ultraconservative Islam spreading across the Middle East; Chinese factories closing, blaming the current US economic crisis; OPEC wants more control in the oil market; losing a ‘lost tribe’ of the Amazon: six people remain, too old to have children, but possess their own religion & language, yet genetically impossible for them to survive, heading towards extinction;