…12/06-08: the good life needs a good rug

37º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…2% paycheck raise for Rio Rancho teachers; 5% pay increase for educational assistants; rare butterfly, only found in S NM; Duke City man arrested on his thirteenth DWI; ‘our’ Las Vegas found old, unpaid bills found in desks of former employees; totaling $300K; some of NM High Schools win America’s highest honors; Brad baking Bread, to make Bread Pudding; the NM Super Computer Challenge; prominent Santa Fe attorney has been arrested for being drunk in 1994; win a holiday gliding ride; NM DUI deaths are down in 2008; AM Rio Rancho SWAT situation, three year old in home, with a man who has a gun; former First Lady of NM has been admitted to Presbyterian HOSP, Alice King suffered a stroke; Valencia CNTY animal control says abandoned pets were being fed, prior to their involvement; no newborns in PICN for at least two days; drunk driver nearly swerved off the road several times, nearly collided with several vehicles, all captured on police video camera; if the price of oil dropped another $10, gas could fall to $1 per gallon in the Duke City; the traditional lights of ABQ have returned to the Duke City at the Menaul School; the price is less than when we arrived in the Duke City; some ski slopes have yet to open, but midweek snow?; Rio Rancho has a Haynes Park; Sandia Labs will work with Mesa del Sol to create self sustaining communities, will take forty years to complete; slow holiday business reported by Olde Towne merchants; Santa Fe Film Festival being held this weekend; a 90 minute train ride from ABQ to Santa Fe; Red Rock Valley Balloon Festival in Gallup; ‘fight fire with super fire’ that will attack Staph infections; Socorro CNTY power lines being constantly vandalized; long line of cars waiting to see the River of Lights; Grants HS student fired a weapon inside a home, considered armed & dangerous; Brad also prepared Brussels Sprouts;


5.1 quake shook Mojave Desert, felt along I-40; Andrew Jackson blamed for the Trail of Tears by Native American tribes, broke all Indian treaties; paid off the entire federal debt, got rid of the Bank of America by withdrawing all the country’s funds; wanted to move all Native Americans W of the MS River [today, some Indians still will not use a $20 bill] five killed in OH APT fire; NATL AVG price of gas is now $1.76 per gallon; why should workers be unemployed, if MGMT made bad decisions?; employees have to be informed in advance, but that was not the case for a Chicago window company…so, the staff has organized a sit-in, since 300 people have lost their jobs, and the Bank of America would not provide the money for a payroll loan; IN mother scratched swear word on son’s forehead; smoking contributes to 90% of lung cancer cases; has Obama ignored Latinos in his Cabinet?; Mrs. Mitt Romney has a form of breast cancer; if GM filed bankruptcy, then Ford & Chrysler will fail, starting a domino effect; a $15 – $17 billion short-term loan for the ‘Big Three’, tapping the Fuel Efficiency Technology Fund, which was to be used in making cars more efficient ‘bailout fatigue; OJ called ‘arrogant’ & ‘ignorant’; Bush family bought an 8,500 sq. ft. home in Dallas for more than $2 million; Caroline Kennedy has yet to decide if she wants to be a NY SEN; MT will allow assisted suicide; PRES Elect Obama is Ebony magazine ‘person of the year’; some people hate GM!; lava increasing its flow across the Big Island;


defense shield tested to prevent N Korean missile attacks; Cuba may consider talks with Obama; Amsterdam wants to ban brothels & pot cafés; flights back to normal at Thai airports; the first part of the Muslim Hajj has been completed; $100 million dollars in jewelry were take in the Paris ‘drag’ robbery; Gaza banks may be the next to fail;