…6/23-09: scanning for secret software

73º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Brad made a Chili Stew Combo; new skate park opened in the Duke City; historic hotel Eklund in Clayton, which had just been renovated, will be closing; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality for Ozone; the NM GOV trip to Rome cost $13K; rent a 2 bedroom, 2 bath two level home in the Duke City for $375…and a deposit of $10K, and be compensated [to some extent] for any upgrades made to the property; being chased by a puppy at The Beach; five people were swept away by arroyo water in the Duke City; man died in rollover when the armored truck he was driving had a tire blowout on I-25; bicyclist has died after being struck by a car near the Double Eagle Airport; Santa Ana Star CTR owes $300K; document proves NM GOV part of a ‘pay to play’ scheme; more monsoon moisture in NM, plus Flash Flood advisories across SW NM; now, three or four gunmen killed a 34 year old cook at Denny’s, part of MS-13 gang;

both of them have been too quiet; not a day goes by that I don’t worry; people are not anxious to attended an outing; Meangel was admitted yesterday; finished Rounds before 7:45A; by end of the day, still in the dark; asked by MGR who was going to the picnic: my response was “I don’t know”; new father who likes the Red Sox logo;

per Weather Channel, storms in the Four Corners, the SE US & the N plains; showers in Boston & Miami; cool & wet across the entire New England area; after nine months, Galveston is showing signs of life, after being battered by hurricane Ike; E Coast rough surf; 16 states under heat advisories; temps from 70s to 100s; Andres struck Acapulco, became a hurricane today, has caused one death; tourism has dropped along RI beaches;

NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.69 per gallon; 7/11: skinny-dip day at NC nudist camp’s pool, trying to break the world record; there is naked counseling, but no ‘touchy, feely’ sessions; cat found in MA post office box gets adopted; HIV cases increasing more in the SE US; GA man wins two lotteries in one week; IN girl called 911 to report ‘daddy stabbed mommy’; the 1950s home had less than 1K sq. ft., smaller homes are selling; Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter; the highest number of renters in a decade; Ennis House is for sale, with a price tag of more than $55 million, closed after ’97 quake; majority of Americans do not want tobacco regulated by the FED GOVT; rogue Minutemen pas as AZ marshals; now, salmonella contamination in pistachios; Exxon unveils its electric car, made its debut in Baltimore; Obama: stronger emphasis on Iran, less aggressive on health plan…you can keep your current plan, or coverage; ‘jaws of life’ were used to free METRO passengers, now it is said the first train had derailed: nine people have died in the subway’s deadliest incident, and there have been several during its 33 year history; older, lighter cars were being used…the only ‘good news’: the Red Line train was inbound, carrying fewer passengers, suspect sabotage since the surrounding area is a park…computer systems were properly functioning, some doors would not open, and there was a smell of toxic chemicals in the air?; the Boeing Dreamliner faces another delay; grasshopper invasion of UT; SC GOV was hiking the Appalachian trail; home sales rise, home prices fall; Wal-Mart cannot tell a customer how much they will save if shopping there; Ed McMahon has died at the age of 86 from pneumonia & other health issues; DC & the Duke City are two of the top ten cities for jobs, so says Kiplinger; FBI reopens 1959 case; Lancaster, PA has the highest amount of surveillance per capita; US H1N1 cases: 17,855; deaths, 45; attacking the younger population, most increases in number of infected people occurring through New England & mid-Atlantic areas; price of AOL increasing to $11.99 per month;insult the staff at a Spanish bar, get a free drink; faint signals from Flight 447?; Obama calls the situation ‘unjust actions by an iron fist’; GOVT clampdown in Iran, and opposition outrage; but that nation says there has been no major fraud; coerced confessions; gold declined to $917.40 an ounce; oil drops to $67.05 per barrel; N Korea tells the world: ‘stay out of its waters’; global H1N1 cases: 35,928; deaths: 163, first cases being reported in Middle East countries;