Tuesday, January 6, 2009

…1/5-09: more places, more often

22º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…Oh, No, Mr. Bill!, and Diane, too; ongoing FED probe; CA CO paid for marketing bonds; so much for snow; Brad at the Food Bank; most snow in NW & SW NM, along I-25, S of the Duke City; 12K people rode the Rail Runner this past Saturday; first murder in Hobbs for 2009; today, Bank of the West robbery on Carlisle; another shooting at strip joint in NE ABQ; another snowboarder missing in Pajarito, ABQ resident, wind & blowing snow erasing shoe tracks; recycling plants seeing drop in prices, and people bringing items for money; NM GOV: the shock seen around the world; rain & freezing rain in parts of S NM; same phrase, different year: go to bed early tonight; will NM GOV start growing his beard again?; biggest setback in Bill’s career, but not affect his role as GOV; he is not forthcoming in details, but ‘doing it for the good of the country’; Chavez wants to run for a third term as Duke City mayor; NM GOV makes headlines & his picture on the front page; more snow during the night; he will have no name recognition problem: bye, bye DC home: Hello, NW NM: goodbye, NM AVE NW; Chris & I pick AZ vs. Baltimore as the Super Bowl teams; NM GOV hires a good lawyer; gas has risen to $1.59 per gallon; Diane Denish was in DC, the Hobbs native would make a great female GOV, or Commerce SECY; wanted a person from NM in a PRES Cabinet; the many faces of Mr. Bill;

Hell Week, Day One; Step One: go undercover; go in, expecting the worst!; family matter meant MGR out early today; finished Rounds by 9A; quickly E-mailed Carolyn my timesheet, after JoAnn went to the Pavilion, looking for me; mother delivered in UNMH bathroom; is Jenny here?; no envelope pickup by noon, charges picked up before 3P; paycheck year based on issue date, not start date; Julia wanted to shoot the fax machine; took PM Central;

cold in the N Plains; rain & freezing rain in TX; Houston, San Antonio & Dallas; moisture across AR, Louisiana, AL, MS; ATL, I-20, I-75, I-85; more snow for Spokane & Seattle; fog across I-10, SE US; temps from 10s to 80s;

the one millionth word will be created by April, 2009; elephant diet, eat more hay; orangutan on jet ski; Obama daughters start school in DC; the $775 billion to $1.3 trillion stimulus plan, tax cuts to the middle class; Obama staff did not do their homework regarding the Richardson scandal; PRES Elect flown into DC by GOVT plane; IL SEN going to Congress; Madoff took money from 8K victims; former comic winner in MN election?; buy Madoff memorabilia on EBay?; Obama wants tax cuts & credits; rate hikes for FEDEX & UPS; a gift to grow in White House; school where previous PRES children attended; VA GOV as DNC chairman? Another Bush in the Oval Office?; suspicious CA toxic fire; buy a Chia pet for its nutritional value; sleep only 2-3 hours per day, to get a college degree; CT lottery winning ticket bought hours before a man died, widow was going to throw away the ticket; ‘scandal’ missed by Obama team; MN SEN race may be decided today, former comedian winning by 250 votes; how will new IL SEN be treated on Capitol Hill; holiday greetings via FaceBook; NETFLIX gets rid of red envelopes; eight killed in Louisiana copter crash; Pat Hingle has died at the age of 84 from a blood disorder; former AG Griffin Bell has died at the age of 90; new IL SEN rejected by Capitol Hill; the ‘First Cat’ died 1/4/09 at the age of eighteen; Obama proposing $500 tax cut per individual; one day’s calories, eaten at one holiday meal; lose your job within a year of buying a new Hyundai, return your car to the dealer; FORD sales slump; NM GOV ‘appeared’ on ABC Nightly News; Obama daughters, Malia & Sasha, will go to school in Bethesda, MD; Chrysler sales dropped by 53%; NATL AVG price of gas has risen to $1.672 per gallon, with AK & HI averaging over $2 per gallon, with AK & MT the highest & lowest priced states; Waterford Crystal files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; DOW slightly down; the name of the game in politics: ‘you give something, to get something’; KY pastor, charged with sexual abuse, has HIV; bus from Rosslyn to Dulles Airport; METRO will have eight-car trains in service;

basset hound & owl have bonded in Britain; Madoff swindled the INTL Olympic Committee; price of oil has reached $47 per barrel; parts of Gaza have no electricity or water; targets: synagogues vs. mosques; diplomacy vs. intense fighting in Gaza; Israel gaining more ground, cutting area in thirds; 500 Palestinians have died in the conflict, global protests continue; too early for ceasefire; gold at $857.80 per ounce; foreign markets on the rise; Ferrari auto sales doing OK; Jett Travolta suffered from seizures; $700 million US Embassy opened in Baghdad;

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