…10/10-09: time changes

46º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…NM GOV met with the Dalai Lama yesterday; Brad baked Bran Muffins; another perfect AM for Mass Ascension, with all the special shapes in the air; at 7A, it’s cold at the Fiesta Park [in the 30s]; entries from 17 countries, and 38 states; how did my pill case get under my filing cabinet?; gondola reservations are up; two Duke City home invasions this week, one in SW ABQ, the other near Rio Grande & Indian School in the NW part of the city; NM may be facing a $650 million deficit; Shiprock, NM soldier killed in Iraq; there is still a cat killer in the Duke City; too tired to add any entries last night; the biggest Mass Ascension was held today; woman from Richmond, VA attending the Balloon Fiesta;shots fired at a Toledo restaurant when a worker saw a patron selling drugs; Marge Simpson will pose in the nude on the cover of Playgirl; two EF-2 twisters struck KY yesterday; many remain hospitalized after enduring 120º in AZ ‘sweat lodge’, as part of a ‘spiritual quest’; border funds face budget cuts; REP Frank says that in order for gays & lesbians to achieve equal rights, they should contact their Congressman, instead of marching in parades; when will Obama repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military policy: the PRES seeks a ‘gay alliance’, but does not back promise with a timetable; CO baseball game cancelled due to snow; at least three years until Americans see the positive effects of a revised health INS reform bill; boa constrictor found in Fall River, MA attic;

Obama did not know he was nominated, our PRES is move ‘loved’ in the Middle East, than in Mid America; he will receive $4 million, which will be donated to charity, this was a win for Kenya, where his ancestors came from; Operation: Enduring Freedom is eight years old, and we a still fighting for a cause in AFG; does a scientist working on the CERN project have ties to al Qaeda?; female worker in Germany fired for eating from buffet that was meant for a client;