…3/3-09: diamonds: a brilliant choice

44º in ABQ; 21% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘re-shop’ at Goodwill; too dry to rain; warmest day since last October; now, less than fifty workers will get pink slips from INTEL Rio Rancho plant; Wallen Homes is going out of business, leaving people with unfinished structures; Santa Fe College in deep debt; three more Duke City mayoral candidates; ‘Mama Mia’ returning to NM; be yourself, have an updated résumé; gas is $1.88 per gallon; the ‘W Mesa tip line’; dry times in the Duke City; murderer may live in Taylor Ranch, targeted & killed a businessman near Paseo & Tramway; new sports complex on the W Side;

Hell Week, Day Two; training at 12:30P; I have no problem moving my lunch shift; UNM hiring at today’s job fair; finished ‘labeled’ Rounds by 7:30A; gave red envelopes to both JoAnn & Jenny; Carolyn no longer handles those requests; Evelyn gave me two loaves of bread; very busy AM Central; Myrna not feeling well, left early; using the day before, or of the discharge;

the storm is gone, the snow remains; black ice on Carolina roads; Chicago ‘lake snow’; FL freeze warnings; S TX warmth; record high temps in NM, per Weather Channel; very cold in New England, and N Plains; gusty in ‘the’ Las Vegas; temps from 10s to 80s; more CA wildfires; from heavy snow, to the deep freeze; I-85 finally reopened in SC; ‘snow day’ two good words for children; Amtrak train stranded 24 hours near Richmond, VA;

‘Mama Mia’, a movie to be seen; another Obama nominee owes back taxes; former IL GOV will ‘tell all’; $3.95 ‘breakfast meals’ at Starbuck’s; Citigroup will help those late on mortgage payments for ‘some’ homeowners; the pink dolphin in a Louisiana lake; college students helping Galveston recover from 2008 hurricane damages; did Limbaugh tantrum/speech hurt or help [R] conservatives: he hopes Obama fails; AIG created a fragile, global web; RI & MI have over 10% unemployment rates; missing FL boaters may start suffering from hypothermia; stimulus jobs have started; MA gay married couples are suing America: they are not guaranteed completely equal rights, denied FED pension benefits by the Defense of Marriage Act; ‘Square Root Day’; MA teen killed his older brother: he did not want to share the family business, a illegal drug ring; working night shifts can be bad for your health; America has to keep AIG solvent; Bowflex machines recalled again; the decline in auto sales continues; hard times can both help & hurt a marriage; IL woman accused of trying to drown her newborn in a toilet; laptop of the future has no keyboard, can handle handwriting entries; Prince & TARGET team up; US economy will remain in shambles for the rest of 2009; ‘this is only a test…please ignore the mushroom cloud you see on the horizon’; new virus attacks FaceBook; the DOW dropped; Metrolink does not allow its workers to use cell phones on the job…but many ignore that rule; the electric powered $189K Tesla; legalize ‘pot’; a taxable ‘green’ business; designing descendants?; IA city building the biggest popcorn ball; if CA goes ‘down’, the US will not go ‘up’; new loans may mean new jobs; a gay Progressive INS commercial; now is the time to invest in the stock market, when prices are low: take out a loan, and hope you are not laid off; a new Obama stimulus logo; impatient investors: show us the money…now!; stocks are down 50% from their peak: nearly 19% since Obama took office; sex shop in Olde Towne Alexandria, VA, after the owner has spent two years & $350K renovating the BLDG;

testing dog waste to determine which dog relieved on German streets, owners will be fined; three people trapped in Cologne six story BLDG; the lake of ten million harmless jellyfish; foreign markets are uneasy, $2.5 million touchtone phone, fit for, and made for a king; Earth ‘ringed’ by artificial devices; British PM meets US PRES, first European leader to do so; America focuses it main attention to E Asia; China & Japan own our loans; no diplomatic relation with Iran…for now; ‘secret letter’ from Obama to Russian leader, asking that nuclear aid to Iran be halted; Clinton in Jerusalem; rogue satellite will return, only discovered last week;