…12/10-08: keep it green

27º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…GAQ, Brad’s AM Chiro visit; Steve & Bruce are together again; Allen is doing well, and is dabbling in the occult; Cary is in San Francisco; Trident INTL DC & Baltimore no longer exist, but Orlando Hall survives; Allen is doing well; Alice King will be on display in the Capitol Rotunda; Hewlett-Packard may mean more growth & jobs in Rio Rancho; NM knows how it would spend bailout money; Cibola High cafeteria reopens; most people have their power restored in N NM; Santa Fe bank robbed; two Tijeras schools have the worst air quality in the nation; the ‘golden shovel award?; this AM, below zero temps in parts of NM; Bernalillo CNTY bans selling of dogs & cats in pet stores; forgot to take receipt from ATM; gas is $1.46 per gallon; the Bank of America branch at Lomas & Juan Tabo was robbed this AM; should Rio Rancho school system have purchased exercise weights, when teachers are being asked to take time off without pay; parents have to bury another son; no NM Office Depot stores will close; Alice King was married for 61 years; another plague cat found in NM; two bank robberies in one city [ABQ] during the same day; at The Beach, cars covered in frost; NM mariachi band will march in Obama’s inauguration parade; counterfeit cash in S NM, especially at casinos; deadly crash on US 491;


get money for MGR gift; health question should be added to interview; JoAnn says she doesn’t dislike me; I told my MGR [in a polite & calm E-mail] I am being harassed; MGR asked me if I was OK, and I said ‘NO!’; JoAnn asked me when I would take time off; Kay keeps coming: she E-mailed response saying that Coders get confused, don’t know the difference between ‘observation’ & ‘consult’; told I was too sensitive; Kay said I should not send replies to ‘all my friends’; the ‘cherry’ Lobos?; new UNM coach will earn $750K in the PM, not a word heard from Kay; time to get out of my shell, and prove to people that I have a brain in my head, and she doesn’t; yesterday, referred back the ‘throw me to the wolves’ speech;


EF 1 twisters touched down in TX, OK, Louisiana & MS; flurries in Pittsburgh; New England fog; wet from Boston to Baltimore, parts of I-75, I-85 & I-95; T’storms & tornado warnings for MS, AL, GA & Louisiana supercells; heavy rain in FL panhandle; flash floods for Birmingham, AL; temps from 10s to 70s;


Boston cat got warm in fan belt, but face nearly removed, repaired by surgery, minimal damages or scars remain; selling of a SEN seat, IL GOV will not resign, wants to make money, or appoint himself as the new IL SEN, but it’s back to business for him; ‘open charge’ AMEX card; volcanic soil produces great ID potatoes; car czar could force any of The Big Three into bankruptcy: bill being tweaked, but car loan nearly complete; Capitol Hill still undecided; money could be seen in days; gays should call in sick today; Oprah not proud of ‘her big butt’; Treasury bills will neither make profits or losses, but safer & less risky than stocks; FL students try to solve ‘who killed Frosty the Snowman’; the worst US recession in fifty years; TN woman returns $100K found in purse; two TX twins die in house fire; cancer may become the number one killer by 2010?; increase in people purchasing generic supermarket brands; AIG needs more money; shortage of Santa jobs this season [they do have a union!]; demands for scrap goes down during Depression; small tremors rocked San Bernardino CNTY in CA, no damage or injuries reported; SKF is cutting its workforce; Advantage Rental Car CO files for bankruptcy; ‘no corporate welfare’; GMA will tour NM cult compound; Viagra, the sexual medicine, is ten years old; GOOGLE will provide access to magazines of yesteryear; expensive jewelry can be found in Beverly Hills pawn shops; Office Depot will close 112 stores; NATL AVG price of gas is $1.683 per gallon: high in AK, low in MO, with diesel at $2.617 per gallon; FL skydiver survives 10K fall; Obama thinks IL SEN has resigned; cops used a taser against a drive who was having a diabetic shock; wholesales sales dropped 4.1%, the worst in recorded, economic history; CNN considered ‘better than newspapers’?; how to stop a GOV who ‘wanted to be part of the deal’: the IL Deputy GOV has resigned, there is talk of impeachment, a process that could take months; the man leading the state turned 52 today…has he become mentally incompetent’, or just ‘out of touch’?; car czar could recall loans [from where?]; $335 billion of the bailout money has already be spent, helping 87 banks in 32 states; Palin was the fastest rising search for 2008; are US taxpayers ‘subsidizing failure’?; CA; three CA KFC workers suspending for taking bath in deep sink used to wash dishes; 35 vehicles & four big rigs collided along US 99 near Fresno; $14 billion bailout succeeds in the House; DOW ended up;


INTL Human Rights Day; no cursing, aggravation or heaving in UK village; caterpillar invasion in Australian town; shark breaks into ‘shark proof cage’; Greek unions should strike to protest police killing young man; mixed foreign markets; US error kills seven AFG officers; China’s economy is slowing down; Ricky Martin’s sons follow singer’s footsteps;