…7/24-09: why play anything else?

70º in ABQ; 56% humidity at 6A…Brad’s dental visit at 10:30A; NM job is at its lowest in 55 years: jobless rate at its highest in twelve years; Deming girl escaped home invasion by biting bandit; thirteen year old Duke City teen says his mother got him drunk Cookie Bandit injured another officer in late 2008; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; rural NM residents want broadband; and another diskette bites the dust; school employees guilty of stealing funds, by adjusting bills; the glow in Brad’s face & the joy in his conversation when I spend a full afternoon with him: at lunch, we talked about Babylon 5; car slammed into complex at Sixty–Third & Avalon: multiple vehicle collisions shut down I-25; police bust Belen pot plantation, valued at $200K; Native American from Zuni, NM adds to the global rendition of ‘Stand by Me’; Brad’s medicines arrived, and I have plenty of cold packs; Buckhorn Tavern in ‘our’ San Antonio voted as the better of the two Green Chile Cheeseburgers, and now the NM GOV wants to hold a contest to see whose is the best in NM; Silver City strip mall goes up in flames;

took early bus, work on Sleep Study Project, left at noon; going comic climbing; will this project change anyone’s opinion about me…probably not; PICN nurse going to Boston, told her what places to see; where did sixty boxes of chemicals found on UNM campus come from; more Native Americans will be enrolling in UNM School of Medicine; finished project, with Brent’s help, by 9:15A; finished Rounds by 10:15A; took R/R; met Brad at Uptown [unplanned, by enjoyable], went to bookstore, had lunch at the Owl Café [their green chile cheeseburgers are still good!], and arrived home slightly after 3P;

N New England storms, a summer Nor’easter; rain for MN, WI, E VA & E NC; snow in Chile; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; hot in Seattle, across NV; Gulf Coast showers, parts of I-95; temps from 70s to 100s;

Lance Armstrong starting his own cycling team?; police vs. the Commander in Chief; copter crash near I-70 in W MD killed four people; wine to be served in Starbucks?; four AZ boys accused of raping eight year old girl; health care reform vs. racism; toxic trailers, dating back to Hurricane Katrina, are still being used; $5 billion in stimulus money for education; the minimum wage increases to $7.25 an hour; Palin: gone, but not forgotten; who should be the ‘top dog’ in the Treasury DEPT; seven states [not NM] considered for storing toxic Mercury [not cars]; was ‘stupidly’ a bad choice of words, or was Obama just saying what he personally felt; will our PRES need to choose his words more carefully?; statue of nude family, located outside a FL shopping CTR, is considered too risqué; 40% of Americans could become infected with the swine flu; was there a gunman on a FL school campus?; mysterious substance found in truck quarantines 18 Louisiana cops; AVG men shed their clothes for calendar, money from sales will go to charity; Obama telephones white MA policeman; too much salt in Denny’s food; land mine donated to Goodwill?; this weekend: Comic CONV in San Diego; unruly person in courtroom zapped by taser; six banks in GA, and one in NY close their doors, bringing the total to 64 across the US…with GA having the most; a brief filed against CA nude beaches; Obama should have ‘calculated his words differently’, has asked both parties to share a beer at the White House…Blue Moon brand will be served; 70% of the oil in the US is imported; use robots to search in deep water, pump the fuel 32K feet; ‘musical marriage’ starts on the right note; fire teachers in spite of tenure in order to acquire FED money;‘check your smile’ in Tokyo before going to work; seeking the next ‘Bond girl’; Iranian Aria Airlines skids off runway, killing sixteen; WHO says as many as two billion people could become infected with the H1N1 virus; ancient Roman ships found off Italian coast; ‘Playing for Change’ helping to build music schools around the world;