…11/7-08: teach yourself how to dream

31º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…’mystery shopping scam’ freezes woman’s bank account; what are the names of the guys who work at the comic book store; Brad’s Chiro visit at 9A; GAQ; limit travel & purchasing office equipment; tighten belts, but make budget cuts, such as a freeze in hiring & overtime only when necessary; -2º in Angel Fire; child porn probe at NE Duke City APT, police take hard drives, and other computer equipment; Brad supplying sandwiches; Four Corners same-sex marriage, and any that took place before this past Tuesday will remain valid…for now; in sci-fi stories, Socorro was once the site of a future spaceport, and ABQ was once the capital of the solar system…or, of the world; state will not reduce services, or increase fees; O’Keeffe film to be made in NM; weapons were stolen from a Farmington home, the owners were moving from NM, and the thieves pried open a screen door; conman had a ‘stable of fancy cars’; proceed with condemnation; today, I wore the ‘wrong’ necklace; two boxes of ammo were found in the bathroom at Gallup High; gas is $2.19 per gallon; hiring freeze in ABQ Public Schools; Z-coil shoes made in NM; I received a ‘mystery shopper’ E-mail;

apology E-mail sent to Hope; Brad arrived early, so we left at 1:30P; people with ruffled feathers about red envelopes; finished Rounds about 9:15A; staples vs. paper clips; Candace never responded to our concerns: we were ‘profiled’; got home before 4P; ACE hardware store has moved; I was thrown in the toilet, and flushed away years ago; the dilemma of ‘duplicate charges’; the dilemma of healthy vs. lonely: Myrna’s mother getting better;

Albany fog; temps from 20s to 80s; rain: Nashville, Birmingham [AL], Houston; Baton Rouge, New Orleans, OH River Valley, in ME, along parts of I-95 & I-10; ATL T’storms; four feet of snow in N Plains; trending down temps; Paloma has 115 mph winds, heading NNE at 6 mph, eyeing the Cayman Islands, then Cuba, but [so far] missing a US landfall; ‘mature’ snowstorm from the S, in Deadwood, SD; areas of I-29, I-90 & I-94; and EF zero twister struck OK;

First Dog bit reporter; the power of Palin, not following the rules; she ‘loved’ McCain; stylists given a blank check?; Obama will have his first news conference today, has put together a seventeen member team to tackle economic problems, and transitional economic advisors; worst economic times in the past forty years; Lieberman stripped of power & position; double digit drops in consumer sales; continued CA Prop 8 protests, blame defeat on Mormon church; more losses, more job cuts, more foreclosures; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.34 per gallon; holiday gifts on the decline?; conservative comeback, seeking a new leader, will bounce back from defeat?; prominent [R] resign from their posts; they have not been conservative enough?; student skipped school, but got stuck in garbage truck for hours; final results of MN election still in the air; men also suffer from post partum depression, including health & mood changes; OK man gave girls drugs & alcohol during overnight sleepover; switch to quickly changes your screen when the boss approaches; CA GOV seeking billions in tax increases; ‘neat desk’ scanner organizes paperwork; priority to select key secretaries; many of the best health INS plans are located in New England; another stimulus package before the holidays; 1.2 million people have lost jobs in 2008; vehicle swept down WA river with dead victims inside; I-5 crash closed interstate near Olympia; teen driver on drugs struck two joggers in NYC, killing one of them: [D] omens: gun sales are increasing; DOW rose nearly 250 points; Billy Graham will ‘pray for Obama’; the CNN hologram; the number of jobless Americans is approaching ten million, the highest number in twenty-five years; 125 million citizens voted; buy refurbished electronic equipment, ask what repairs were needed, and how long it took to restore the item; buy weapons before Obama bans them?; Mattel to layoff 1K workers; 240K jobs were lost in October; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.314 per gallon; 6.5% unemployment rate, the highest in fourteen years; do people want Palin to have a political future?; McCain did not ‘handle’ Palin well, she called campaign officials ‘jerks’: Sara, the scapegoat; we are second class citizens in the eyes of CA; ‘that one’ is ‘mutt’; First Family moving to a ‘smaller’ city; oldest Obama daughter has allergies; tenth straight month of job losses, five months on average to find a job, not ‘the’ job; Berkshire Hathaway earnings drop by 77%;

foreign markets mixed; another US drone attack killed ten people in PAK; school filled with adults & children collapsed in Haiti, fifty people killed; N Korea says it will speak with Obama; oil at $60.77 per barrel;