Sunday, February 22, 2009

…2/21-09: hooked on books

36º in ABQ; 26% humidity at 6A… two men died in the S Valley last night, may have shot each other; four people injured by chemical explosions in a bottle ignited at Smith’s near Paseo & WY; APT lights lowered during early AM; TX woman stabbed her husband to death, arrested & surrendered in Gallup; police funds in Santa Fe face a 5% budget cut, about $800K; cold in E NM, warm in W NM; Mayor Chavez has stopped LANL from becoming part of DEPT of Defense, remain under Energy DEPT; strict restrictions on man being released who killed four family members by driving the wrong way, put the crime in the past; there is still skiing in N NM; the seventh month of above AVG temps for the Duke City; using Coca Cola to clean a toilet; Efferdent to clean jewelry; PAM for soap scum; Maxi-Pads to protect knees when scrubbing floors & clean windshields [who knew?]; building the right rocket to rise above the others, and preventing a crash landing, protect the payload [an egg]; another bomb in a soda bottle found at the TARGET on Montgomery; Clovis man charged with beating his two month old child; to avoid dehydration, I have to refill my glass during TV commercials; man stabbed his ‘friend’ for not dropping him off closer to his home; hot air balloon seen at 6:30A; Survivor [‘Eye of the Tiger’] appearing in Espanola, one of the 80s ‘Big Hair & Tight Pants Band’; Verizon Call CTR in ABQ is hiring, and giving performance based bonuses; Portales peanut plant profiting from salmonella scare that has sickened 600 people; drug smuggler shot & killed in NM desert, near El Paso; the extra protection in interlock inhalers; Hank Williams III plays both C&W and heavy metal; another NM resident was killed in Iraq; SEN Public Affairs Committee passed domestic partnership bill, allowing companies who provide these health benefits for these people, heading to SEN judiciary committee; NATL Guard General may run for NM GOV; UNM paying big bucks to find ways of saving energy; train proposed between Las Cruces & El Paso; NM joining a group of states to determine PRES election by popular vote; Duke City GOVT officials were at Coronado Mall; Melloy Dodge will honor dealership’s contracts, maintenance agreements & warranties; NM GOV met with Zangara; hopes of Eclipse Aviation being sold are fading;

today, governors are meeting in DC to discuss recovery package; recession brings back popular toys of the past; major crash on Highway 101 when SUV goes out of control, slammed into a tree, and burst into flames; another OR bank shuts its doors; women are ten years older when they get a heart disease; 50% of ladies over fifty will died from cardiovascular problems; the median income in NYC is $63K: the median income of INDY is $65K; Joan Baez is celebrating her fiftieth year in music; Obama says to ‘use money responsibly’; no appropriate recall made by peanut company; hypodermic needles taped on Vancouver, WA door handles, and phone receivers; tax cuts will be seen by 4/1/09; money in Stanford’s bank accounts cannot be accessed by those who were scammed; now, the Buffalo pilot had enough experience; media should highlight more ‘happy’ news; ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was the first film to win an Academy Award after the movie was released on DVD; eleven year old PA boy shot & killed pregnant woman; snow showers in the Great Lakes area; could the CA mother be called ‘Octopussy’?; tanker runs aground along TX coast; hair today: hairless tomorrow; hard times in ‘90210 land’; students stand during class, with a foot fidget device; spirals & steel & stakes…oh my!; the return of regular size paper towels; unraveling of the Middle Class; raise taxes on people earning over $250K; damage, not wind speed, determines the strength of a tornado; governors say they need $2 trillion to solves states’ problems; proposal to raise MA gas tax by nineteen cents; credit card companies adding a $10 fee if a person has a balance; Philly newspaper files for bankruptcy, its stock was valued at less than a penny;

how will Hillary handle China?; the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen SQ student revolt; Pelosi meeting with AFG leader in Kabul; Celine Dion ‘My Heart Will Go On’ video has been viewed over forty million times on YouTube; OPEC may reduce oil production; Swiss courts stops the revealing of UBS monetary transactions; global warming might trigger a 'world' war; eleven people killed in Chinese mine explosion; Hepatitis B outbreak in India from using recycled syringe & bogus medicines being used to treat the diseases;

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