Wednesday, August 5, 2009

…8/5-09: embrace what you love

75º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6ACode Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; now the lower level A/C in the APT is not working!; FASTING for Michael!!; look, don’t touch any food, Michael!; think water, Michael!; it reached 99º yesterday!; APT fire on 1500 Central near downtown Duke City burned into the night, leaving at least thirty people homeless; 800 acre fire burning S of Silver City; no Park & Ride services for the NM State Fair, blame the bad economy; 100 jobs available at KAFB; ABQ home sales on the rise; NATL Night Out took place; now the great debate moves to the best Bond movies & songs; two tenants who lost their homes from last night’s APT blaze may move into the Beach; our A/C blew a fuse, and a call was placed to fix the problem; at 4P, firemen were still hosing the Castle APT complex, one of the oldest in the city…because the structure is pancaking, the building keeps smoldering; ABQ father found passed out in his vehicle after having smoked marijuana, taken Valium & shot up with heroin, a child was also inside; the APT downstairs from us [214] has the same A/C problem;



Hell Week Day 2.5; finished Rounds by 7:15A; drew blood, splattered onto my white shirt; Red Line R/R routed onto Lomas, then went S of Sixth, then E on Gold; Code Purple at 12:30P; went home on the Red Line R/R, down Central, one lane near the blaze;

Dallas heat advisories; Louisville, KY floods, ruining library books, storms ignite structures in that city, four inches of rain fell in a period of only several hours; E Coast storms from NYC to Orlando; MT T’storms, also in MS, AR, TN, NE and along parts of I-40; Gulf Coast rain; wildfires near San Antonio, TX; voluntary evacuations have been issued as multiple blazes in CA shut down several roads; more wet weather for NY & New England; temps from the 60s to 110s;
man kills several people at a fitness club near Bridgeville, PA, then turns the gun on himself; MI fuel storage fire send thick black clouds into the air; [R] still don’t trust or approve Sotomayor; stimulus money only helped 9% of US homeowners; GOVT INS health plan would cover abortions; the $100K hybrid; CA, ME & NJ have ‘major’ H1N1 outbreaks; the American Psychological ASSOC should not tell their gay clients that they could become straight through therapy, or other treatment; engineer let passenger drive a double-decker train into NYC from Long Island; the DOW ended down; Radio Shack joins with T-Mobile to become ‘The Shack’; burglary into Buffalo home turned deadly, two people inside were killed; Klamath Falls, OR woman had a three foot diamondback rattler in her engine, the animal fell out, and was decapitated; the ‘gym killer’ had planned this shooting since last summer, published his intention on his blog, and fired 36 shots; Capitol Hill jets for junkets, it’s their money, too;the Swine Flu Survival Kit; billions at risk for getting this diseases, there have been over 1,100 death reported around the globe, as many as 188K reported cases; oil is $71.97 per barrel; Putin: the ‘fit’ Russian leader; Chinese citizens trust prostitutes more than politicians; the breast feeding doll for young girls; gold is $966.30 an ounce; N Korea, and its ‘gesture of goodwill’; current Iranian leader sworn in for his second term; passengers were told to exit a plane when one of the engines caught on fire as they were ready to taxi on the tarmac; Clinton considered a charismatic, powerful force: the only American to have recently seen the N Korean leader; Susan Boyle gets another makeover; Bolivia has the largest salt flats in the world, these contain lithium, which will help power electrical cars;

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