…9/23-09: the future is based in the past

47º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight, slightly sick in my stomach; the right weather conditions means more skunks in N NM; so far, lower attendance this year at the NM State Fair; Wayne Bent will only accept food from his followers, which is not acceptable, so will the state force him to end his fast?; the sound of an owl outside our APT; bank robbery at Central & Tramway; Brad found new shoes, but not at the store he originally planned to get them, because it did not open until 10A on weekdays; Chewy keeps getting bigger; hand sanitizers will be placed on all ABQ Ride buses; “which is like as good as cash”; Badland’s Restaurant in Grants makes the best Green Chile Cheeseburger?; no electricity or toilet paper at Room 2222; a higher than expected number of freshmen at UNM; production based on charges entered, not coded; Julia got the job at OSIS; finished Rounds at 7:45A; sign on Central: Speed Limit 22 mph; increased attendance at UNM Queer–Straight Alliance meetings; Code Purple at 6:30A; no matter how many checks & balances are put in place, something always falls through the cracks; the shifting shift;Haboob over Scottsdale, AZ?; wet in New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, DC, Charlotte; floods in GA & OK; new Ventura CNTY fire has burned 8,500 acres; winter storm warnings for parts of CO, some areas could see an ADD’L foot of snow; wet in NYC, Houston, Denver, Nashville, Memphis, Pittsburgh, along parts of I-65, from TN to TX, OH and the Carolinas; 24 ninety degree days for Portland, OR; ABQ temp mentioned again on ABC AM News; man killed by rip currents at Ocean City, MD; manure igniting in CA blazes; temps from 50s to 90s;

‘lost’ brothers found working at the same ME business; a $40K NJ dog custody battle; many ATL schools are a total loss: GA has no state money to help flood victims; two missing CA hikers are found alive; dog fighting ting busted at IL daycare CTR; TX ‘exploding’ with new H1N1 cases; the world comes to NYC to hear Obama talk at the UN, major roads in that city under high security, or closed; our PRES wants us to work together to iron out differences, the US cannot solve the world’s problems on its own, the global community needs an efficient INTL ORG to find answers; and another weird: TX student stabbed & killed a teacher; Libyan leader Gadhafi staying in a tent on Donald Trump property?, no, city residents oppose that idea; he calls the UN Security Council a bunch of terrorists, and the swine flu was created in a lab; Obama also spoke separately with the leaders of Japan & Russia; 300K people may be eligible for 13 more weeks of unemployment checks; the DOW went down; VA men, aged 69–90, pose for ‘nearly nude’ calendar; tax on condoms & contact lenses; with laptop & cell phone in hand; woman impregnated with wrong embryo; key interest rate remains at record low;orange dust in Sydney triggers smoke alarms; gunfire at the CA/MX border as people try to illegally cross into America; the ‘bumpy’ rings of Saturn; Palin talks in Hong Kong; oil drops at $69.06 per barrel; gold is $1,010.80 an ounce; while in AFG, the CNN doctor came down with the H1N1 virus; Britain scaling back its Trident missile program; Libya supports the Taliban; water on the moon, ice on its soil; face-to-face: the future of seats on a plane; Iran leader will do what he can & ask the jury to be lenient in their decision against three hikers who strayed into that country;