…11/24-09: virtual vegetables

28º in ABQ; 35% humidity at 6A…GAQ; water resumed during the night at The Beach; Duke City home sales on the rise; package went through SunPort detection devices, contained explosives, but it was a perfectly legal shipment that was supposed to travel by land to its destination; LANL fined $960K; the new Presbyterian HOSP on the W Side of ABQ begins to grow; no Rail Runner service this Friday; Brad’s dentist visit; Brad made a Cranberry, Pecan & Rolled Oats Square; and then the water stopped again at The Beach this AM, and the parking lot was slippery; AM status report: the water should be on by noon: 3P report, water is running, parking lot being cleaned; daylight shooting at APT complex near Montgomery & Carlisle;

things went well with Dr. Rose; do not enter charges in reverse chronological order; finished Rounds by 7:30A;

Midwest fog; rain in the Central Plains & New England; wet in Tampa, Richmond, KC, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Omaha, Seattle; Toledo, Des Moines, & Chicago; more rain means more bridges could collapse in England; temps from the 40s to 80s;

the doom of Obama’s domestic policies?; ATL has the biggest airport in the US; trays on planes spread more germs than do coughs & colds; cribs killing children; a ‘flexible’ song; people will be going to stores on Black Friday, but will they buy, and what will they buy, and how much will they spend?; buy a 100 proof turkey, infused with vodka, for $29.95; 320 guests will attend the first Obama state dinner at the White House; Susan Boyle will appear on an ABC program; Adam Lambert will not be performing on ‘GMA’; house prices on the rise; the DOW ended down; dog who served in the military needs $3K to pay for medical expenses; one in four homeowners owe more than what their property is worth; it is illegal to own wildlife in VT, so there’s a fight to save ‘Pete’, the moose; Regis Philbin leaving his program to have hip replacement surgery performed; the state dinner will be strictly vegetarian, with items from the First Lady’s garden; three airlines fined for making passengers wait hours on the tarmac; Native Americans want to build casinos that are not located on tribal lands; drywall made in China is corroding pipes, how will homeowners be compensated; Detroit is the most depressed city in the US, even its old football stadium is worth much list than the price when it was built; FED lawsuit filed against police who entered & searched patrons of the ATL Eagle;

HIV cases on the decline?; for every 1K US soldiers sent overseas, vast amounts of money is spent; the end of Saab; final war strategy session between Obama & his advisors, our PRES will make an official announcement next week, and it will have benchmarks; 100 year old British woman is tired of getting the same B’day card from her Majesty, the Queen; oil is $76.45 per barrel; twelve hours of ‘rest’ before the Atlantis heads home; everything is going well at CERN; gold is $1,163.50 per ounce;