Thursday, April 2, 2009

…4/1-09: a journey is just as important as achieving the goal

49º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…Brad’s Chiro Visit; what if a word triggers the worm?; GAQ; ice cream, on the floor, in the sink; smell of stew in the APT; 650 acres burned on Pajarito Mesa, new water restrictions across Bernalillo CNTY, do not overspray on sidewalks & streets; more wind & fire warnings; Hobbs blaze is 100% contained; NM GOV wants WinRock mall to survive; expensive motivation to quit smoking?; $384 million to get rid of Cold War nuclear waste; yesterday’s bank robber was arrested; did not sleep well last night; Thornburg Mortgage files for Chapter 11; get ready for longer lines, 200 ABQ city positions will not be filled; Brandon Craig not guilty of all counts on a ten year, three person murder charge…he should leave the state; semi struck by a vehicle near Broadway & Rio Bravo; 53 mph gusts recorded in the Duke City;

Hell Week, Day One; no matter what method, we are still ‘losing’ charges; finished Rounds before 8A; sandstorm at 3:30P, could not see Sandias…within an hour, it was over; more people to yell at me; JoAnn had no work for Darrell; I worked very hard during the PM;

Pittsburgh showers; baseball size hail fell on TX; N FL downpours, GA, SC; tornado threat for TN & Louisiana; Charlotte showers; Tampa T’storms; Orlando rain, and in KY, WV, OH; temps from 30s to 80s; MN snow; per Weather Channel, Wind Advisory; warm across SE US; interstates are reopening in the N Plains; more snow in UT & CO; late March had a record number of twisters; the Red River has lowered, but may rise again after the next snowstorm;

NY political race is too close to tell; ‘Pin the Blame on the Boss’, Pink Slip Race are games in the Unemployed Olympics, held in NYC; too late for Chrysler to merge, and sell small Fiat vehicles; will GM go ‘belly-up’, in or out of court, the company has to shrink?; awful March auto sales; largest FED tax on cigarettes starts today; cherry blossoms blooming in DC; optimists live longer?; jobless rates increase in all major cities; Southwest Airlines grounds sixty jets; the man who detained football player from seeing his dying relative has resigned from the police force; FORD sales slump; Kroger mayo being recalled in OH, IN & KY; Madoff no longer owns a yacht; Walgreen’s will office free Clinic Visits for jobless victims until the end of 2009; the Simpson’s is the longest running comedy on TV; your PC may spread spam; consumer confidence slightly rising; 3M CO cutting another 1,200 jobs; the DOW is up; too much sugar is used by the US; Natalie Cole is in need of a kidney; after 72 year, the soap opera ‘Guiding Light’ is coming to a close; stimulus money appearing in our paychecks…why not one check, with one lump sum?; the $300 computerized recipe box;

man running naked with a pole vault, Obamas meet the Queen, one of the rare world leaders to do so; French leader may walk out of talks if more economic regulations aren’t put in place; increase in insurgent attacks in Iraq, more jihads; mixed foreign markets; the transatlantic transformation; downtown London is under siege; does Michelle tone down her fashion, until teatime; PRES will meet with Russian & Chinese leaders; goal to reduce the number of warheads; British businessmen have to be taught how to ‘dress down’; access Internet from TV; PRES limo accompanies the First Family; the formal, informal tea with the QE 2; Michelle wore an ivory coat; gold is $926.90 an ounce; oil is $47.55 per barrel; copter crash in the North Sea off Scotland kills eight, with eight more missing; N Korea getting ready to launch missile; the PRES gave the Queen an IPod, plus a song book by Richard Rodgers; a united stand by France & Germany; only nine deaths in Iraq during March, the lowest number since December, 2003; Royal Bank of Scotland vandalized; the Obama Limo blocked a delivery entrance; the powerful people of the planet; rioters broke bank windows; the world is hungry for American leadership; new nuclear downsizing talks between Russia & the US;

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