Friday, December 18, 2009

…12/18-09: reduce or reuse and recycle

35º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; another school district for the Duke City?; the Eunice fire chief & four co-workers accused of theft; METRO Detention CTR employee charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into an NM prison; Santa Fe burglaries on the rise across all parts of the city; NM ranks #2 in highway traffic planning, and easy access; a very large utility bill; saw two guys sitting side by side, holding each other’s hands at a Duke City restaurant; Channel 10 news van at The Beach; the Real ID program may not start until May, 2011; no one injured after rollover crash at Twelfth & Mountain; NM is late sending unemployment checks; woman drove the wrong way for five miles on I-40, went under The Big I, and crashed near the San Mateo exit, she was charged with drunk driving; a holiday greeting by Heidi to Brad & myself; the worst of the worst property crime offenders appear in the ABQ Journal;

left at 12:30P, ate at Two Fools; MGR called me about the McLaughlin project, and that I should finish it next week; great Fish & Chips & Irish Coffee, to Trader Joe’s, climbed for comics, and returned home before 5P; chaos in the new PICN area;

light snow in the N Plains; chance of tornadoes in S FL; storms from ATL to Roanoke to Orlando, along parts of I-10 & I-20, in Charlotte, New Orleans, Tampa, Nashville & JAX; snow in Detroit, Chicago & Cincinnati; a weekend blizzard for the E Coast?; S FL floods, Miami downpours; CA beach erosion forced people out of an APT complex; very wet along areas of I-75 & I-95; get ready for plenty of snow from Asheville to Boston, Long Island & Cape Cod; temps from 20s to 80s;tonight is the final broadcast for Charley Gibson; HI & FL are the happiest states, while NY is the saddest; number of prisoners on Death Row is decreasing; DC mayor signs the same-sex marriage bill, which now goes to Congress for approval; this time, a murder-suicide in UT; tanker truck fire shut down Dallas HWY; school budget cuts may mean the end of Driver’s Ed classes; 447K baby car seats being recalled; live Pacific Chorus frogs tagging along on AK holiday trees; the agency to rate video games is shutting down, a victim of today’s economy; NYC criminal died by falling three stories after he tripped over his own baggy pants; bottled water sales on the decline; to how to slow the passage of a health care reform bill…read it out loud; ‘unjustified spending’ by the Post Office; 700K packages of Vicks Dayquil have been recalled;Obama in Denmark; after multiple legal battles, a US father may be able to bring his son home from Brazil by the holidays; China, the climate stumbling block?; has Iran seized an Iraqi oil well?; gold is $1,106.80 an ounce; oil is $74.25 per barrel; is N Korea guilty of computer hacking?; the end of Saab; Obama ordered missile attacks on Yemen to kill al Qaeda insurgents; thieves stole the ‘Work Sets You Free’ sign at Auschwitz death camp; the Pet Shop Boys have a holiday album; the deepest underwater volcano captured on video;

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