Thursday, December 18, 2008

…12/17-08: go for the green!

37º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…keeping my toilet bowl clean; GAQ; AM snow in Gallup, Grants & Farmington, plus Flagstaff; Destination: Santa Fe: Rail Runner started its first run this AM: good way to beat traveling on snowy roads; Tajique death considered ‘suspicious’; Aztec man sentenced on sex crimes charges, faces 39 years in jail; former drug addict found dead in downtown Duke City in the early hours, with no means to make a phone call; three men captured, charged with bank robberies; $8 train ticket to travel from ABQ to Santa Fe; 600 new jobs when solar plant will be built in Belen; finally, I feel less constipated, twice in one day!; eleven drug raid across ABQ; couple in jail on child porn charges; Duke City woman thinks the ‘shoe thrower’ should be honored, instead of being a man facing trial next week; three Rio Rancho police car break-ins; minor Rail Runner signal problems; car crash on I-40E, just before the entrance into Tijeras Canyon;

Standard Diner, or Weck’s for holiday lunch [Weck’s won]; provide money to low income students who have problems paying tuition to remain at UNM?; Jackie starts her vacation; early power brownout at UNMH; given time, these people will never understand me!; finished Rounds by 9:15A; all 2009 ‘big’ Coding meetings have been cancelled; another finger slashed by a chart; yesterday, there was a giant pair of shoes, hanging on a UNM tree; on my way home, I sat with Warren, who thanked us for our card;

3.6 quake shakes the Carolinas; SE US fog; ‘action weather’ heading to the E Coast; rain, snow & ice in New England and mid-Atlantic area; too cold for road salt; nine vehicle crash along I-80; twenty people have died from cold weather; freezing drizzle in Cleveland; Seattle snow; below zero temps in twelve states; bad weather along parts of I-84, I-87, I-93 & I-495 [in MA]; snow & storms in San Diego; wet Cape Cod, Hartford ice; temps from 0s to 80s; more white weather in ‘the’ Las Vegas, and there were flurries seen falling on Malibu beach;

people finding it hard to maintain their current standard of living; how close were the ties between IL GOV, and Jesse Jackson, JR; people praying that GM factory does not close; other Cabinet positions have been chosen; why did the SEC not investigate the man who scammed millions, of billions?, time for an immediate investigation; NY ‘sends stars to the Senate’; thirty year old missing child case comes to a close, only parts of missing child was ever found; historic low interest rates, pouring reserves into banking system; Biden, Obama & new Education SECY visited school, answered children’s questions; FL crooks just wanted to steal metal egg beater; Obama will try to promise to remove US troops from Iraq; people could get a new face to ‘hide’ themselves after a crime, would it be worth the pain, and at risk for infections, taking drugs for the rest of their lives; continue to exercise while stressed, visit friends and maintain drug regimen; three women in CA die from carbon monoxide poisoning; Motorola freezes pensions; fewer people are ‘job hopping’; Agriculture SECY also chosen; small cars are now safer than previous models, poorest ranking awarded to PT Cruiser; bad times for boat markets, adding trailer for free; students in GA school placed in prison-like cells when they misbehaved: one person hung himself, an autistic IA girl pulled out her hair; inauguration Internet overload; train derails near La Crosse, tossing two of its cars into the MS, sending two people to the HOSP and forcing people to leave their homes & businesses, fearing propane leakage: so far, only liquid ammonia was emptying into the river; foot found in brain of three day old boy; the DOW dropped; facial surgery took 22 hours, and ‘all went according to plan’; FORD shutting ten factories for one week in January; anxiety across America; there is only one Cabinet position left to fill: Labor; too many SEC oversights…stock swindler under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet locator: will have to stay in his $7 million NYC penthouse property; Chrysler shutting thirty plants down for one month, 46K union workers will be getting GOVT unemployment checks; ‘the new oil’ for Toledo is in Solar Valley cells; the OH city changing ‘rust’ in ‘glass’; company must pay $16 million in Boston’s ‘Big Dig’ tunnel collapse; GA woman arrested for not removing her headscarf at a security checkpoint at a courthouse;

the refrigerated, air conditioned beach in Dubai, bad for environment; man sold his soul on EBay, reached 20K British pounds by unemployed band member; foreign markets mixed; ski gondola accident in British Columbia when tower snapped, no injuries reported; British troops pulling out of Iraq ‘by July; only fourth facial transplant around the world; there’s a hole in Earth’s magnetic field; OPEC meeting today, did cut production, by over two million barrels per day: price has dropped to $41.66 per barrel, and closed at $40.66 per barrel; using FaceBook to serve foreclosure papers; two trillion tons of ice has vanished in the polar areas; Mamma Mia! very popular in the UK;

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