…11/2-08: grace is power

49º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…now I know when the comic book store is open; Udall remains in the lead, winning the [IND]; hard year for a conservative [R]; Marigold Parade for Dia de Los Muertos; has gas prices altered the route from the W Side to Downtown; men arrested for stealing thousands of $21K worth of gasoline; a day of tears yesterday; Brad made Waffles; pedestrian killed by driver on I-40 near Eubank, was alcohol a factor in either driver, or the person; fire claimed an art gallery & furniture shop; Heinrich knew somebody who did something illegal, so is that guilt by association; record highs across NM; new water source at Rio Puerco Basin in Sandoval CNTY; Lionsgate Films will not build a studio in Rio Rancho, bad economy being blamed; our VCR did not change its time; people complained that ‘haunted house’ addressed topics ‘not suitable for children’; Heather Wilson must be pleased; early voting has ended in NM; McCain appears tomorrow at Roswell airport; the AVG price of gas in NM is $2.63: in ABQ, $2.45; man still in pain after being shot & attacked by people who sprayed graffiti on his fence last year, the two teens have yet to be caught; former Denny’s employee arrested after spending months on the run, stealing three day’s worth of receipts; AVG waiting time was twenty minutes to cast ballots; the problems with prescriptions & Walgreen’s’; record highs from Raton to Gallup; The Beach Rent Contest: save $300, or get a $30 gift certificate for the Cooperage [a place we took Pat when she resigned]; Brad got a $50 rebate check; yesterday he made Roast Chicken with Lemon, with Big Pasta Shells; Santa Fe man who resigned from his job left his wallet & car and home, and has disappeared; buckwheat honey can help a cough; a dark area when a woman sees flashing lights behind her, she should ask for ID, or call the police dispatch; a difference in being ‘lonely’, ‘alone’, ‘isolated’ & ‘trapped’; during one month, Nancy accidentally lost a lot of rent checks; a private water pipeline from Ft. Sumner to Santa Fe?; Obama has 8% lead across NM, strong lead in Hispanic voters [66% say they support the IL SEN], Heinrich, Lujan & Teague in the lead; most results ‘influenced’ by Bush low ratings, a negative factor for most [R] candidates in every state;

Obama said to crowd: they don’t need to boo, they do need to vote; Boo – sh!; CA initiative will face opposition, supporters rallied in a San Diego stadium, confess their sins; why do mere mortal know what God believes?; priests fear there should not be a two term system, eliminating fundamental rights by changing the constitution; Pat Boone was one of its leaders, and fathers can marry their daughters; fundamental rights challenged; naked pumpkin runners in Denver race; SC felon fired thirty rounds of ammo, killing child on Halloween, thinking he was a burglar; NJ boy kicked out of school for wearing Jesus Halloween ‘costume’; mudslides, flooding & blizzards across various part of CA; we need to think long-term in terms of economic strategies; was FEMA too slow handling their Hurricane Ike efforts?; OH minister killed, deacon shot near KY church; not easy to eliminate the car models that aren’t selling as strong as hoped; Biden wants a bipartisan ‘spirit’ after the elections; is Obama’s aunt in the US illegally, living in S Boston, MA; one short-range ballistic missile was shot down, but another was not intercepted: both were fire from HI; most public restrooms are key places for germs to thrive, plus so many do not wash their hands; NATL AVG price of gas falls to $2.463, now at a nineteen month low; AK & HI are the only states above $3 per gallon, CA prices are highest in the contiguous US: diesel is $3.284 per gallon; do not give children aspirin: instead, use ibuprofen; five years ago, same-sex marriages were the topic of discussion; the DOW was about 9K points, ‘disgraceful, dishonorable, extreme’; so much said in four little words; 6.1 quake shakes area near Aleutian Islands, no injuries or damage reported; High School Musical 3 remains Number One at the box office weekend, taking in $15 million; seven injured outside Chicago nightclub;

man who saw the Marianas Trench has died at the age of 86; the ‘James Bond Martini’ made its debut in “Goldfinger”; N Korea photos shows smiling leader, Kim Jong II; the ‘dark side’ of the global economy;