…1/10-09: gaze upon daze

30º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…Cheech & Chong made lots of money from their 1978 movie; they hated each other for many years, then became great friends; five charged with taking $100K from NM welfare program; overnight shooting of woman in NE ABQ, struggling to survive; will ethics reforms law be passed this legislature session?; set contribution ceilings; need more oversight: submit annual operation & finance reports; every GOVT project appears to be infested with fraud & corruption; Middle East peace rallies will be held in ABQ & Santa Fe; two dozen barrels of motor oil spilled across the W Mesa; overnight, Santa Fe received 1.8 inches of snow; police car dashboard camera films speeder who crashed head-on into a truck; Brad made Fried Eggs for breakfast; then prepared Singapore Noodles for lunch; a new year, a new scam in NM, caller says they are from the MVD; no interest on some furniture purchases for four years; historic cabin torched in Carson NATL Forest; I-25S closed after SUV rollover near Bernalillo killed its female driver, who was not wearing her seat belt, and ejected from the vehicle; band in movie ‘Yes Man’ performing at Tiki Lounge; a sci-fi Sustiva dream that took place in the South End of New Bedford; icy along parts of I-40, especially in the Tijeras Canyon; some NM ski areas have record amounts of snow; three bank robberies yesterday, two in the Duke City [one on the 2800 bank of Eubank], and one in the City Different: one man was carried an oxygen mask & tank; forgot to buy comic book bags, again; NM housing authority defaulted on loan; ‘chilled sunshine’; Nordic skiing at Enchanted Forest; what is the difference between life, and a dick?…life is always hard; blood samples helped police link DNA to burglar; more Valencia CNTY car thefts, motivated by the bad economy, but many vehicles have been retrieved; driver of truck killed as the vehicle crossed the median, and collided into an APS school bus along I-40 in Tijeras Canyon near Moriarty, the bus had two people in it, and neither were seriously injured; former Duke City mayor will cancel a trip to DC, and watch the inauguration at home; 2K in ABQ without power on W Side that occurred about 10P; an increase of Blu-ray disks being taken by shoplifters, one criminal was a homeless man; another bank robbery, this time on Coors in NW ABQ;

exercise: improve your heart, health & happiness; TX ‘death row’ prisoner pulls out his eye, and eats it; six people were shot outside a Chicago High School during a basketball game, dozens of shots fired, linked to gangs, reviewing security cameras that may have filmed the event; worse job loss since 1945; anger is a destructive emotion; Baltimore mayor spending gift cards intended for the needy?; for the tenth day in a row, the NATL AVG price of gas has increased: now, $1.782 per gallon; man waited in line, then robbed the bank; thrift & consignment stores doing goods business, so are auto repair shops; many companies are cutting employees’ hours, an AVG of seven hours, not this low since 1964; people have waited until the last minute before buying a converter; Rockefeller holiday tree will be cut, and used for fireplace logs; FBI needs 2,100 new employees; salmonella outbreak linked to King Nut peanut butter?; coldest week of the year; another Celtics’ loss; SONY, and the new Walkman?; the end of Circuit City?; obesity on the rise in America; Obama in-law living with them in the White House?; the main filming for ‘The Towering Inferno’ took place on September 11, 1974; seven alarm fire in Philly; man shoots cars on the NY State Thruway, after riding in a taxi to a location on that interstate;

another temporary ceasefire in Israel & Gaza; Biden in AFG to talk with military leaders; panda mauled child in Beijing Zoo; oil is $40.83 per barrel; no rockets fire overnight over Israel – Gaza skies; what damaged a wind turbine in England; African airline wants to charge by the minute in the air; five Somali pirates drown after collecting their $3 million ransom;