…10/28-09: what’s being served on the home plate?

43º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; AM T’storms & snow for the Duke City; snow has already fallen in the Four Corners area, and I-40 W of ABQ is ‘tricky’; man who collided with a R/R bus said he was not texting; man arrested for causing a multi school lockdown in the Duke City yesterday; casting call for men, aged 50 – 65, who take Lipitor; another lottery game for NM?; very wet AM; bales of hay fell off a truck on Lomas, blocking the street; still filming on I-40, Coors was also shut down; gas is $2.59 per gallon; $5.4 million has been allocated to improve 16 tribal areas; Ruidoso child falls asleep on an empty school bus: the driver did not see him because he had slid off the seat, and onto the floor; snow in the Sandias, and another storm is approaching; five more H1N1 deaths in NM, bringing the total to 21; Brad found a set of 20 cookbooks called ‘Cooking for Two’; Nickelodeon star visits NM; an earthquake could pose a risk to LANL [what about the rest of the state?];

everyone has erroneous TES edits; I actually did have DX on the ECMO charges; very empty AM R/R; formally introduced to my AM R/R bicyclist: his name is Richard; empty AM R/R; finished Rounds by 7:30A;

wet in NY & New England; gusty winds across CA; rain in the mid Atlantic; snow in OR, UT, CO, WY & the Dakotas, including SLC, Casper, Rapid City, Denver & Cheyenne; rain & snow for ABQ, per the Weather Channel; dust storm causes major pileup hear Fresno, semis colliding into smaller vehicles; wet for DC, Philly, Boston, Erie, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tampa & Savannah; dust in the AZ wind; temps from 30s to 80s;

the end of many Chrysler, Dodge & Jeep models; Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed by Obama, it is now a FED offense to attack a person based on their sexual orientation; PRES honors former MA SEN Ed Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal, the first Afro-American to be elected to that political position by the popular vote; 3K die in house fires each year; jobless benefits’ extension clears another hurdle; needles being recalled, have defective syringes; GMAC needs another bailout; the DOW went down; did Ar-nold use the ‘F’ word?; shades of the Silver Bridge incident, and a similar event during the World Series twenty years ago: during rush hour, a 5K lb. rod & medal brace snapped on the upper deck of the San Fran Bay Bridge, damaging vehicles, causing a minor accident, and forcing traffic to come to a halt: this was part of the repairs that were just complete last month, span will be closed indefinitely; US Airways cutting 1K jobs; is the economy really getting better; the return of layaway at Sears; women was offering sex in exchange for two World Series tickets; Obama gives perks to donors?; many watched as a gang rape took place, and no one reported it: fear the risk of being ‘the individual’; house sales worse than expected; the House makes a ‘deal’ on a health reform plan; weird: in FL, brother kills brother over loud music, they were both teenagers; in MO, nine year old girl killed by fifteen year old girl; same-sex couples who consider themselves ‘married’ will have to determine who is the ‘husband’ and ‘wife’; if CA is in such a financial mess, where is the money coming from to repair the Bay Bridge?;attack on hotel in Kabul; Taliban attack UN guesthouse; Hillary in PAK; the Rube Goldberg device in the UK that completely makes breakfast; a green light for the Ares rocket; oil fell to $77.44 per barrel; gold fell to $1,030.50 an ounce; Versace cuts 20% of its workforce; the sun will align with the center of the Milky Way, only once every 26K years; diplomats attacked in AFG, the home of the leader’s sister was also damaged; some people live in tiny Hong Kong ‘cage homes’; the tiny cars of tomorrow at the Tokyo Auto Show;