…11/8-09: taking a deep breath

44º in ABQ; 49% humidity at 6A…well, the new vacuum cleaner passed its first test: I’m amazed how much powder remained in the carpets from fresheners that were last used years ago; enjoyed Goat Brie from Trader Joe’s; rollover on I-40 near Coors; fewer mall holiday workers needed; $330K spent on emergency kits for ABQ classrooms, to be used during school lockdowns; Farmington dedicated a new Veterans Memorial; over 4K undelivered tax checks from 2007–2009; why was a report delayed dealing with an inmate being beaten at the METRO Detention CTR?; I have now become a member of Yahoo! & flickr; the Mescalero Apache tribe has elected a leader who had previously served in that position; from AOL News, huge sinkhole below Carlsbad, NM, causing an unwanted cavern under the town: formed by pumping out oil, could cause a highway, church, businesses & a trailer park to collapse, residents have been warned, and signs caution drivers; shaving cream can fell into the toilet [don’t ask!]; woman stabbed her girlfriend, told her son to hide the weapon; two teens arrested for burning then burying a CNM student; received notice of a new E-mail address for Philippe; I-25 closed tonight for another film scene;

pheasant raised & served in the US has to be grown on farms, no wild fowl allowed; a prosthetic hand that can actually ‘feel’ items; shooting at a Vail, CO sports bar leaves one person dead; seen as an ‘historic’ vote, health care reform cleared another hurdle as the House passed an initial bill, 220–215, some [D] oppose the bill; personal files & documents tossed out of NYC windows during the Yankees tickertape parade; nine year old WV boy stopped a carjacking; vintage copter crashed in CA; holiday airfares are rising; NM nun murder makes COMCAST videos; an hour commute to cross the Bay Bridge; fake cake at wedding reception, when bakery could not finish the real deal in time; places to visit: Ogunquit, ME & VA Wine Country; hackers linking child porn websites to innocent people; Nathan really bites the dust on ‘Heroes’?; the Patriots won; twelve million children in the US go hungry; linking the Ft. Hood murderer to 9–11?; UT student suspended for piercing her nose; Obama vs. transparency; Greyhound bus traveled seventy miles in the wrong direction; weird: NY mother used her children to kill neighbor’s pets; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.68 per gallon, higher than this same time last year;

salt: the forgotten ingredient; ‘Wich’ & ‘Salz’ in a town’s name means ‘salt’; Hurricane Ida has 105 mph winds, moving NW at 12 mph, headed for Cancun & Cozumel, and the Gulf Coast states; bridge collapsed in Andorra; Brazilian student expelled for wearing a pink miniskirt;