Wednesday, December 24, 2008

…12/23-08: the food has to be awesome, and you look wonderful

42º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A… GAQ; Brad is smiling this AM; and I cried Sunday evening; use cell phones to access NM weather maps; River of Lights packing lots of parking lots; Brad talking in his sleep, woke me up; deadly crash in NE ABQ, driver struck bridge, died from the impact; flurries in Show Low, AZ; snow showers in Santa Fe, it’s an ‘elevation thing’; plane crash in S CO; ABQ Academy faces tuition hike; Clovis woman embezzled more than $100K; high winds across state; LANL employee suing lab for wrongful termination, the alleged disks never existed; ABQ will reward residents for going ‘green; graduation ceremony for thirty new ABQ Police; AM rain changing to snow in the Duke City; open cans of alcohol found in sheriff’s vehicle; Luminaria bus tours’ tickets are sold out; Brad made Cranberry Nut Bread, plus two new loaves of Bread, plus Stuffing for the turkey…he is feeling much better; wet at The Beach this AM; high dollar construction equipment being stolen, free website to monitor missing items; Rail Runner saw record number of riders; Market Place, NM…at Lomas & Louisiana, where space can be rented for $250 per month; last night, I-40 was shut down in the Tijeras Canyon area; crime on the rise in Roswell; fake robbery in Farmington, included one thief hitting another on the back of the head with a frying pan, the trio has been charged with embezzlement; seven inches of snow fell on Santa Fe; twenty inches of snow fell on Tierra Amarillo;

does Myrna want me to work in her area?; finished Rounds by 9A; no responsibility; mother not at home; would like a phone that displayed incoming number; pour water on the tiny lime green ‘micro’ car, and it may become an SUV; remember the timesheet!; I have a 2009 goal; baked goods from Brent; told Dr. Davies to date her notes; “I think you should go to CARS”; other units able to leave early; eventually, our area was told to leave; arrived home at 1:20P; empty AM R/R; MGR in trouble since mid-November; I would like a phone that displays the incoming number; got cocoa, pretzels, & cookies, plus a Patriots blanket from Linda & Brandi;

eleven deaths from multiple snowstorms; ‘tis the season’; Orlando & Honolulu are hot!; temps from –0 to 70s; Denver & ABQ snow mentioned on ABC AM News; people may celebrate the holidays in shelters; cold in Cleveland; freezing rain: across Dallas to Memphis, AR; MS; mudslide in E TN; Seattle is shut down; ‘big storm’ in SW US; coldest Monday night football game; some chemicals cannot melt the ice on freezing roads; per Weather Channel, ABQ in Winter Weather Advisory; flurries: IL, IN, WI; snow in Chicago, parts of I-55, I-88;

a broken watch is accurate twice a day; Bush gave his own overcoat for charity; IL GOV has the truth on his side; Dallas man started shooting at rush hour traffic, killing two drivers, some attacks took place on I-635; IRS had to cut back on audits; per city code, AK Snow Godzilla had to be knocked town; 60 million will travel during this holiday; light show at Grand Central Terminal; dangerous diet food being imported from China; pilot told to abort Denver takeoff; fifteen more cities added to EPA ‘sooty city’ list; some forms of cancer progressively disappear; icicle wreaths; lesbian stripped & beaten by gang outside San Fran home, her vehicle was stolen, but later recovered; bright holiday lights in Baltimore; melamine in hot cocoa?; is Michael Jackson really ill?; the era of VHS tapes is fading away; home sales are down, worse than expected, and so are prices, worse than during the Depression, a drop of 13.2% from last year; stocks for GM & FORD have dropped by 15%; five guilty in Ft. Dix terrorism attack; another child killed by another mother in FL; contaminated food at IL Health DEPT holiday party?; man scammed by Madoff found dead in NYC, a victim of suicide; water main broke in Montgomery CNTY, on River Road, between Bethesda & Potomac; 66 inches in diameter, causing 4 – 10 foot fountains, sweeping at least nine vehicles down the road: the liquid flowed into a ravine, and ended in the Potomac; the DOW ended down by 100 points; ½% decline in GDP; New Bedford, MA man burned part of his house while trying to melt snow from his porch; NATL sales tax holidays in 2009?; there are no Gay Cabinet members; Diet Coke vs. the FDA; the MD water main supplied to 1.8 million customers; anti-gay vs. anti-gay marriage; ‘with these rings, I thee wed’; Scrabble is sixty years old; US has received three times the AVG AMT of snow; the decline of mistletoe; the Chevy Volt will cost $40K; no decision vs. ‘preferred candidates’, or ‘personal benefit’ offered to Blagojevich; 400 flights delayed or cancelled in Chicago’s O’Hare; 2½ hours of flowing water, at a rate of 150K gallons per minute; a ‘wall of icy water’; Obama will be sworn in using the Bible of Abraham Lincoln;

a car in Germany with lots of junk inside; driver squished to the steering wheel; the ‘perfect storm’ for oil supplies; mixed foreign markets; is the Iraqi GOVT already corrupt?; some Zimbabwe cities have no food, leader says, “this country is mine!”; tourist found ancient jewelry in Israel; $3.2 billion in Spain’s lottery; Russia & American astronauts perform spacewalk around INTL Space Station; fire in the engine of the world’s largest Ferris Wheel [located in Singapore] trapped 173 people for about six hours; a blow to their ego: Russian ballistic missile fails a fifth test, as it self-destructed in midair; add Spain to the list of countries that are in a recession, the first time in fifteen years; UNISYS cutting 1,300 jobs worldwide; BYD: car being made in China, an electrical vehicle that costs $22K, takes seven hours to fully charge, and get travel sixty miles on one charge, then plug it into a regular outlet;

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