…10/1-09: come the morning, when the headlights fade away

51º in ABQ; 23% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will ABQ schools face budget cuts?; KS fugitives caught in NM; high winds mean high fire danger; Farmington faces an 8.4% unemployment rate; our property MGR has a new beau; a ‘car free’ night in Nob Hill; foreclosed homes in NM will be renovated; there is still a snag in the special shape balloon incident; Rio Rancho student has died from the H1N; robber shot & killed near a NW ABQ Walgreen’s, putting a daycare CTR under lockdown; Brad picked the last tomatoes for this season, and trimmed his oregano plants; near freezing temps in the Duke City; new VIP caterer replaces Garduno’s at the Balloon Festival Park;

Hell Week, Day One; the ‘fast track’ shift; have the new forms arrived?; the Locksley issue is not over; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:45A; kept missing buses, jumped from the PM Blue R/R to the Central; patients & their parents are wearing face masks;

T’storms & twisters in the Great Plains; CO wildfire caused by exploding transformer; MT, NV, OR flurries; rain from MN to TX, the Twin Cities, Dallas & KC, and along parts of I-35; N Rockies & Sierra Nevada snow; frost & freeze advisories for the Great Lakes region, and the OH Valley ; wet for N NY & N New England; Nashville, St. Louis & Albany; temps from 50s to 90s;

MI faces massive budget shortfall, nearly forced to close state offices; choices of colored lights for the Empire State BLDG causes controversy; 5.1 quake shook central CA; TX women fried & ate goldfish after a domestic dispute with her common-law husband; more gay & lesbian characters on TV shows; is it really a good time to take advantage of great deals?; 47% of Americans do not pay FED taxes; today, the DOW dropped more than 200 points; war funds diverted to pet projects; extending unemployment benefits faces opposition in Congress; is penicillin becoming obsolete?; job losses more than expected; the ‘pride ride guide’; Newt Gingrich takes back ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award presented to TX strip club; TARGET pays the price for selling toys which contain lead, it also removed flashlights which could overheat & melt; the ‘Twilight Zone’ is fifty years old; seasonal flu supplies may be delayed; NM is one of many states whose hospitals could handle the amount of people infected with the H1N1 virus; NY man saves boy from burning BLDG;Communism in mainland China is sixty years old, parade honored their space program; another 6.8 quake shook Indonesia; warning systems are too slow, tsunamis are too fast; 1,100 deaths from the triple Asian tremors; pigmy hippo baby is no bigger than a leaf; oil is $69.73 per barrel; gold is $999 an ounce; is the world recovering quicker than expected from the current recession?; ‘isolated’ Iran against ‘The Big Six’; ‘constructive’ talks with that nation; full facility accessibility of its nuclear facility within two weeks; another tremor, this time registering 5.5 on the Richter scale, has shaken American Samoa; the four million old female humanoid has been found in Ethiopia; no city in S America has held the Olympic games; money is the key to the world’s stress;