…10/20-09: me & you, and the universe

54º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…GAQ; the powder of Tiramisu; did Espanola police officer strike two people without provocation; owing $750K in back taxes, all of Garduno’s restaurants may be forced to shut down; $1 million in diamonds stolen from a car belonging to gem brokers; EMSU male professor grabbed a student in his crotch?; COMCAST laying off 45 ABQ workers; Duke City officers shot & killed pet pit bull; Lance Armstrong will be in Durango; Brad forgot AM phone call, I kept walking up the UNMH stairs until I reached the fifth floor; children needed for movie being filmed across NM; home sales doing well in the ABQ area; PM rain at The Beach; per Condé Nest, Santa Fe is one of the best places to visit in the US; a very wet backpack; NM Symphony may not play this season, still stalled in contract talks; PM lockdown for NE ABQ school; two people rescued from arroyo at WY & Indian School;

Jenny leaves earlier to work than I do, catches the first Blue R/R in NW ABQ; we are all swamped with work; ‘Mistress Jade’ linked to UNM leaders?; Data for Dummies book needed; finished Rounds by 7:30A; UNMH has a cage for people to park their bicycles; Channel 4 on UNMH hill; dust storm, followed by a T’storm at UNMH;

ABQ rain mentioned on ABC AM News; NYC cold, ATL under ice; KC storms, Billings snow; TS Rick has 65 mph winds, moving NNE at 6 mph; rain in the N Plains; chilly from VA to GA; record lows in FL; ME snow showers; hoarfrost on flowers & trees; heavy rains leave San Fran under water, and BART flooded; Twin Cities showers; temps from 40s to 90s;

Broncos win, now 6–0; PRES keeps pushing for the public option; Obama has been in office for nine months…what has he accomplished; Chatham, MA home washed away by beach erosion; online Internet use helps older people maintain cognition skills; CO family would turn themselves in, and face charges; HI schools may close on Fridays to help balance their budgets; 33% of Americans fear losing their health INS coverage; school lunches need more fruits & vegetables; baby food recall, may contain botulism; Streisand earned thousands for charity; politicians playing ‘dealing with doctors’; loose lips sink [R] ships; former NYC police commissioner found guilty of taking bribes for contracts; Sun Microsystems is laying off 3K workers; more people favor legalizing marijuana: fourteen states allow it for medical use; the DOW ended down; one in six Americans live in poverty; 53% of the patients hospitalized with H1N1 are young children; 92 year old tried to smuggle cocaine in a wheelchair; building a better toilet paper; more people creating hoax to get into the TV spotlight; experts, not juries, should decide malpractice outcomes; ‘meatless Mondays’ at Baltimore schools; DC club with a dress code;

Sarah Boyle preparing for her debut album release next month; Islamic UNIV attacked; another US outpost in AFG has been shut down; AFG leader may have to approve election runoff; new NASA unmanned rocket will be launched; actor who portrayed Dr. No has died at the age of 91; foreign stocks still soaring; Asian mosquitoes live longer, and attack during the day; Tiesto, the ‘trance king’; Anglicans could join the Catholic Church, and still be allowed to marry; oil is $78.52 per barrel; gold is $1,056.20 an ounce; Dubai is building a half-mile skyscraper; female UK firefighters object to their new, bright yellow shirts that becomes see-through when wet;