Saturday, August 8, 2009

…8/7-09: sounds like summer

66º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…to the Mall; the back to school tax free weekend in NM, other states also use this policy to attract more back to school business; GAQ; shooting at NE ABQ APT, one man wounded in the leg; SW Duke City mobile home blaze put one man in the HOSP, there were no fire hydrants close to the property, and won’t be expected until 2010; what is this with people attacking their spouses with samurai swords: this time, a NM corrections officer attacked his wife with that object; meth lab busted in Durango, CO area; another one, complete with crack cocaine was raided in the S Valley of ABQ…inside that dwelling were six children, ages 10 to 15; the Cherry Chipotle wins the NATL Award on the Regis & Kelly show, sandwich created by Durango native; Brad created simply sinful Meringue Cookies; AVG price of gas: in the US, $2.61 per gallon: in NM, $2.62 per gallon: in ABQ, $2.61 per gallon; Connie Mack World Series being held in Farmington; more jobs at Cannon AFB, more homes needed in Clovis & Portales; La Plata CNTY man claimed he had survived a plane crash, but it was all a hoax; Cannon AFB airman faces child porn charges; Coronado Shopping CTR had plenty of people walking…but buying?: there appeared to be sales: and, to us, we saved a lot of money per the ‘original price tags’; NM GOV declares today ‘Purple Heart Day; solar energy grants awarded to LANL & Sandia Labs; Zangara Dodge may reopen soon, but under new ownership; left at 12:30P, to pursue pizza [Saggio’s, and it is still great!], and seek comics; the spy in the sky; single line pseudo code, but more multi-line entries for cardiac surgical procedures, than in other areas; finished Rounds by 7:15A; told MGR I would work a few hours on Labor Day Sunday; Code Purple at 6:30A; arrived home by 5P;

strong storms in NE, IA, WI, IL & the Dakotas; wet in Chicago & Miami; Santa Fe temp mentioned on the Weather Channel, ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; Hurricane Felicia still heading towards HI, now as a CAT 2 storm; bad weather in Omaha & S FL; damp in New England; temps from the 60s to 100s; waterspout sighted off AK coast;
this is the worst recession the WWII era; more cash for clunkers approved; Sotomayor is the third female US Supreme Court judge; clinical trials for the H1N1 vaccine will begin; AK Airlines jet blew a tire on takeoff, but landed safely at LAX; 1K lb. marlin caught off the MD coast; SC First Lady & her children moved out of the governor’s mansion; after a series of strokes, 88 year old Eunice Kennedy Shriver is in a Barnstable, MA HOSP; fewer job losses or layoff, but high unemployment rate…no, it actually dropped to 9.4%; child days after he & his mother become lost in Death Valley, CA; the era of the ‘comfortable’ four inch high heel, Kenneth Cole; Nicholas Cage owes $6 million in back taxes; CA meat packer recalls 825K pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with salmonella; window washers dangle over Long Beach streets; DC residents tried to rescue people after a serious collision in the at PA & AL SE; the longest yard sale has over 4K vendors, runs 685 miles from OH to AL; when voters meet politicians, these Americans are called stupid or mobs; fewer full time nurses in schools; 247K jobs lost in July, the nineteenth straight month of decline; 15 million people are looking for work, five million have been searching for over six months, many jobs are not returning;
top Taliban leader in PAK ‘may’ have been killed; the CERN supercollider may be ready to restart this November; oil rose to $71.98 per barrel; gold fell to $960 an ounce; the US will remain in AFG for at least another two years; Taiwan prepares for typhoon;

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