…11/15-08: different schools, different styles

32º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…W Musical ASSOC Festival begins in late November at the Duke City Marriott; students enjoy Atomic Museum in the Duke City; SEN Jeff Bingaman receiving honorary doctorate from NMSU; Brad baking Bread; Recycle Art Festival in Santa Fe; cool air to NM, bringing warm Santa Ana winds to S CA; more people looking at big cars in dealerships along Lomas; turned on the heat this AM; NM GOV term will end in 2011, is Bill the best candidate for SECY of State?; Milton Baca was discharged, he can walk & eat on his own, had five surgeries, including having part of his skull removed during his HOSP stay; but he cannot remember the accident; did NM abused children lie, and are they suffering from mental problems?; today is Recycling Awareness Day, as declared by the NM GOV; after 22 years, Comfort Zone stores will close its three NM locations; the largest employer in Socorro, NM Tech also imposing hiring freeze; changes in mobile park rules forces a woman to give away her two dogs; expanded hours for unemployment offices; a woman is walking around The Beach, knocking on doors during the early AM hours, hidden in the shadows is a male ‘accomplice’, tenants are advised not to open their doors, but this pair may live in the complex; TACT: Ticketing Aggressive Cars & Trucks; predictions: near normal temps, near AVG moisture for ABQ area during winter; talks begin in power shift from Wilson to Heinrich; UNM staff offered post in Obama transition team, cannot accept it because of her two children; cyber stalking meeting being held today in the Duke City; chaos when Brad cut his finger; but he did make Spaghetti in Clam Sauce; MGR’s mother does something wrong, nurse tells her not to do it, the older woman agrees, and proceeds to do it again; did not arrive home until after 6P last night; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; man arrested while trying to cash a forged check; ABQ rally in Civic Plaza, no one supported PROP 8; AVG price of gas in NM is $2.30 per gallon: in the Duke City, $2.12; gay protest rally made KOAT headline news;

tornado warnings for the Outer Banks; racial attacks taking place around the US, will this lead into riots, and uncontrollable NATL chaos; 150 homes, 6,500 acres have burned in S CA, high winds have reached 70 mph, blaze moving very fast, targeting an area known as America’s French Riviera; homes are exploding, horizontal flames; 10K people told to evacuate the area, blazes approaching Sylmar; high winds keep airplanes from battling the blaze, no relief for the next two days; very warm in DC, but storm front nearing the E Coast, people have been killed in NC from the bad weather; teen wins $2.5 million lawsuit against KKK; very high threat level against Obama; tie declared in MO PRES race; Obama one 1 electoral vote in NE; the ‘final’ electoral vote totals are 365 to 162; PRES – Elect will display his progress on YouTube; Obama being compared to FDR?; Nader received 1% of the popular vote; mustard & plum: the next in fashion color combos: same-sex marriage rallies taking place across the US, from San Diego to Boston; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.13 per gallon; in MO, $1.83; tornado warnings from DC to Boston; MO man held his ex-girlfriend hostage, and at gunpoint, in the health center where she worked; were certain brain regions not fully developed in psychopaths, who want to be cured; New Bedford is one of the best prepared, ABQ is one of the least prepared for the digital TV transition; an increase in Ambien ads; did Bush say the $700 billion bailout was to prevent a crisis greater than The Great Depression?; Yes!; ‘transition’: the word for late 2008; unscientific poll says Hillary would be the better person for that position; will a former ‘First Lady’ become, in a way, the ‘Second Lady’?; Clinton & Richardson vie for the same Cabinet post, and so does Kerry; increased interest in transit; America obsessed with the topic of prostitution; NE no longer wants to be the state where parents can legally abandon their children; another conservative diocese is splitting from the Episcopal Church; the ‘white envelopes containing white powder’ are considered ‘acts of domestic terrorism; what could happen if you are an ‘enemy’ of gays; fragile business:the new, the small, the fallen; entire HOSP told to evacuate as flames approach the structure; parts of I-5, I-405 & I-210 have been closed; the city of Los Angeles told to decrease its power consumption as fire continues to grow, or face ‘burning’ blackouts;

Endeavour launched in the glow of a full moon, heading toward the INTL Space Station; making sweat drinkable, that’s what the astronauts will try to do; two pieces of debris came off the Endeavour during liftoff, but there appears to be no sign of damage to the spacecraft; thousands of workers are being laid off around the world; Bank of Scotland gave pink slips to 3K employees; a collapse of global confidence; global economic summit of the G–20, taking place in DC, leaders should devise a plan by 3/31/09; what started as a peaceful prayer proposed by Iraqi cleric, a pan-Muslim protest would be held next Friday, to prevent US security forces in their sovereign nation…could erupt into a probable attack against US forces;